1522 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1522.

Events

 * September 21 – Luther Bible: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible's New Testament into Early New High German from Greek, Das newe Testament Deutzsch, is published in Germany, selling thousands in the first few weeks.
 * Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century compilation Romance of the Three Kingdoms is first printed, as Sanguozhi Tongsu Yanyi.

Prose

 * Desiderius Erasmus – Novum Testamentum (Greek Textus Receptus of the New Testament, third edition)
 * Martin Luther – Against Henry, King of the English (Contra Henricum Regem Anglie)
 * Adam Ries – Rechenung auff der Linihen und Federn

Drama

 * Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I – Vom Papst und Christi Gegensatz
 * The World and the Child (Mundus et Infans, published)

Poetry

 * Thomas Murner – Von dem grossen Lutherischen Narren ("Of the Great Lutheran Fool")

Births

 * February – Jean de Nostredame, Provençal historian (died c.1576)
 * June 1 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch classical scholar (died 1590)
 * unknown dates
 * Joachim du Bellay, French poet (died 1560)
 * Siôn Tudur, Welsh poet (died 1602)

Deaths

 * January 25 – Raffaello Maffei, Italian humanist historian and theologian (born 1451)
 * February 25 – William Lilye, English classical scholar (born c. 1468)
 * June 30 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist scholar and poet (born 1455)
 * September – Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet and bishop (born c. 1474)