January 8 – Harold Monro officially opens the Poetry Bookshop in London (opened for business November 1912), which becomes a noted international literary meeting-place.[2]
January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel Amerika, which he never finishes.
March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Zaynab, by Husayn Haykal, is published; it is sometimes called the first modern Arabic novel.[7]
Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing his edition of Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring it to literary prominence.[8]
Henri Stahl publishes excerpts from his novel Un român în lună ("A Romanian on the Moon", republished as a book in 1914), one of the earliest works of Romanian science fiction.[9]
^Wachtel, Andrew (2009). "Russian Modernism". In Gleason, Abbott (ed.). A Companion to Russian History. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 287–288. ISBN978-1-4051-3560-3.