1253 in poetry

Works published

• the troubadour Engles and an anonymous jongleur compose a tenso debating the merits of the court of Theobald I of Navarre

Births

• Amir Khusro, Sufi, writing in Persian and Hindustani

Deaths

• Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume died 1252 or 1253, Japanese poet
• Ahmad al-Tifashi, Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist, in Tunisia
• Theobald I of Navarre, a French trouvère