Contents

• Works published
• Births
• Deaths

This article covers 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 (died 1325), Sufi, writing in Persian and Hindustani

Deaths

• Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume died 1252 or 1253 (born 1171), Japanese poet
• Ahmad al-Tifashi (born 1184), Arabic poet, writer, and anthologist, in Tunisia
• Theobald I of Navarre (born 1201), a French trouvère