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The year 1918 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Short stories
5 Poetry
6 Non-fiction
7 Births
8 Deaths
9 Awards

Events

The 2nd annual Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.
Author Hall Caine made a KBE.
Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen.
Poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.

New books

Arnold Bennett - The Roll-Call
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Willa Cather - My Ántonia
Blaise Cendrars
- I Have Killed
- The Severed Hand
Marie Corelli - The Young Diana
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming - Hope's Highway
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Edgewater People
"Owen Gregory" - Meccania the Super-State
Wyndham Lewis - Tarr
Baroness Orczy
- Flower o' the Lily
- The Man in Grey
Leo Perutz - From Nine to Nine
Romain Rolland - Colas Breugnon
Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
Mary Augusta Ward - The War and Elizabeth
Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
Edith Wharton - The Marne

New drama

Bertolt Brecht - Baal (written)
John Drinkwater - Abraham Lincoln
Susan Glaspell - Tickless Time
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - The Difficult Man
James Joyce - Exiles
Georg Kaiser - Gas
Vladimir Mayakovsky - Mystery Bouffe
Emma Orczy - The Legion of Honour (adaptation of A Sheaf of Bluebells)

Short stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen

Poetry

Main article: 1918 in poetry

Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War
Laurence Binyon - The New World: Poems
Walter de la Mare - The Marionettes
Siegfried Sassoon - Counter-Attack
Tristan Tzara - Vingt-cinq poèmes

Non-fiction

Henry Adams – The Education of Henry Adams
Laurence Binyon – For Dauntless France
Walther Rathenau – An Deutschlands Jugend
Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
Oswald Spengler – The Decline of the West
Mary Augusta Ward – A Writer's Recollections

Births

January 16
- Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (d. 1996)
- Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer (d. 2009)
February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, author (d. 2006)
February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot (d. 2007)
March 9 - Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (d. 2006)
March 10 - Theodore Cogswell, science fiction author (d. 1987)
May 16 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (d. 1986)
July 14 - Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter
August 9 - Robert Aldrich, writer and filmmaker (d. 1983)
August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, best-selling novelist (d. 1974)
October 19 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
November 2 - Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer (d. 1987)
November 16 - Nicholas Moore, poet (d. 1986)
November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, author of books for children & teens (d. 2007)
December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (d. 2008)
December 30 - Al Purdy, poet (d. 2000)
date unknown
- November - Peter Opie, expert in children's literature (d. 1982)

Deaths

January 28 - John McCrae, war poet
April 1 - Isaac Rosenberg, poet
June 10 - Arrigo Boito, poet and composer
June 26 - Peter Rosegger, poet
October 5 - Robert Baldwin Ross, friend and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
November 4
- Wilfred Owen, poet
- Andrew Dickson White, diplomat and author
November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, poet
December 2 - Edmond Rostand, dramatist
December 15 - Salvatore Farina, novelist
date unknown - Francis George Fowler, expert on grammar and usage

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: not awarded
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sara Teasdale: Love Songs
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Ernest Poole - His Family

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