YOUR 2023 LITERARY CALENDAR

A new and refreshed calendar marking this year’s important literary dates, events, celebrations and author birthdays! It’s a work in progress, so let us know if we’ve missed anything! 

JANUARY

3rd January 1892 - J.R.R Tolkien 

7th January 1903 - Zora Neale Hurston

17th January 1820 - Anne Brontë

18th January 1882 - A.A Milne

19th January 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe

25th January 1882 - Virginia Woolf

27th January 1832 - Lewis Carroll

FEBRUARY

1st February 1901 - Langston Hughes 

7th February 1812 - Charles Dickens

7th February 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder

26th February 1802 - Victor Hugo

27th February 1902 - John Steinbeck

MARCH

2nd March 2023 - World Book Day

20th - 26th 2023 - Shakespeare Week

21st March 2023 - World Poetry Day

APRIL

2nd April 2023 - International Children’s Book Day 

4th April 1928 - Maya Angelou

21st April 1816 - Charlotte Brontë

26th April 1564 - William Shakespeare’s Baptism

28th April 1926 - Harper Lee

MAY

3rd May 1896 - Dodie Smith 

9th May 1860 - J.M Barrie

13th May 1907 - Daphne Du Maurier

22nd May 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

31st May 1819 - Walt Whitman

JUNE

2nd June 1840 - Thomas Hardy

12th June 1929 - Anne Frank

13th June 1865 - W.B Yeats

22nd June 1947 - Octavia E Butler

29th June 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

JULY

12th July 1817 - Henry David Thoreau

18th July 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray

21st July 1899 - Ernest Hemingway

26th July 1802 - Alexandre Dumas

26th July 1856 - George Bernard Shaw

28th July 1866 - Beatrix Potter

30th July 1818 - Emily Brontë

AUGUST

1st August 1819 - Herman Melville

2nd August 1924 - James Baldwin

9th August 2023 - Book Lover’s Day

9th August 1914 - Tove Jansson 

9th August 1899 - PL Travers

16th August 1902 - Georgette Heyer

17th August 1837 - Charlotte Forten Grimké

30th August 1797 - Mary Shelley

SEPTEMBER

15th September 1890 - Dame Agatha Christie

21st September 1866 - H.G Wells

24th September 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald

OCTOBER

Black History Month (every year)

1st - 7th October 2023 - Banned Books Week

14th October 1894 - E.E Cummings

16th October 1854 - Oscar Wilde

27th October 1932 - Sylvia Plath

NOVEMBER

8th November 1847 - Bram Stoker

13th November 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson

18th November 1939 - Margaret Atwood

22nd November 1819 - George Eliot

24th November 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett

29th November 1832 - Louisa May Alcott

29th November 1898 - C.S Lewis

30th November 1874 - L.M Montgomery 

30th November 1835 - Mark Twain

DECEMBER

10th December 1830 - Emily Dickinson

16th December 1775 - Jane Austen

30th December 1865 - Rudyard Kipling

TBC 

London Literature Festival