1925 in literature

Children and young people

• Elinor Brent-Dyer – The School at the Chalet
• A. M. Burrage – Poor Dear Esme
• Hugh Lofting – Doctor Dolittle's Zoo (5th in a series of 13 books)
• L. M. Montgomery – Emily Climbs (2nd in a series of 3 books)
• Ruth Plumly Thompson – The Lost King of Oz (19th in the Oz series overall and the fifth written by her)
• Else Ury – Nesthäkchen With White Hair (Nesthäkchen im weißen Haar)

Drama

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• J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
• Arnolt Bronnen – The Bird of Youth (Geburt der Jugend)
• Mikhail Bulgakov – Zoyka's Apartment (written)
• Noël Coward – Hay Fever (first performed) and Fallen Angels
• Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – Number 17
• Federico García Lorca – The Billy-Club Puppets (Los títeres de cachiporra)
• Patrick Hastings – The River
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Tower (Der Turm)
• Keble Howard – Lord Babs
• Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck
• George Kelly – Craig's Wife
• John Howard Lawson – Processional
• Ben Travers – A Cuckoo in the Nest
• John Van Druten – Young Woodley
• Franz Werfel – Juarez und Maximilian
• Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Beelzebub Sonata (Sonata Belzebuba)
• Carl Zuckmayer – The Merry Vineyard (Der fröhliche Weinberg)</onlyinclude>

Poetry

• T. S. Eliot – The Hollow Men
• F. W. Harvey – September and Other Poems

Non-fiction

• Max Aitken – Politicians and the Press
• Alice Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
• Edwin Burtt – The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
• G. K. Chesterton – The Everlasting Man
• Maurice Halbwachs – La Mémoire collective (On Collective Memory)
• Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf
• Walter Lippmann – The Phantom Public
• Dmitry Merezhkovsky
• The Birth of Gods: Tutankhamen in Crete (RozhdenÄ«e bogov: Tutankamon na Kritie)
• The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon (TaÄ­na trekh: Egipet i Vavilon)
• Arthur E. Powell – The Etheric Double and Allied Phenomena
• Franz Roh – Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting)
• George Saintsbury, ed. – The Receipt Book of Mrs. Anne Blencowe (manuscript 1694)
• Clare Sheridan – Across Europe with Satanella (motorcycle tour)
• J. R. R. Tolkien – "The Devil's Coach Horses"
• Hendrik Willem van Loon – Tolerance
• H. G. Wells – A Year of Prophesying

Anthologies

• Alain Locke (editor) – The New Negro

Births

• January 7 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-born British naturalist and author (died 1995)
• January 8 – James Saunders, English dramatist (died 2004)
• January 9 – Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, Algerian writer (died 1996)
• January 11 – William Styron, American writer (died 2006)
• January 14 – Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Kimitake Hiraoka), Japanese author and political activist (died 1970)
• January 17 – Robert Cormier, American young-adult novelist (died 2000)
• January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Catholic priest and poet (died 2020)
• January 26 – Miep Diekmann, Dutch writer of children's literature (died 2017)
• February 18
• Jack Gilbert, American poet and educator (died 2012)
• Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (died 2019)
• February 20 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (died 1985)
• February 22
• Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (died 2000)
• Gerald Stern, American poet and academic (died 2022)
• March 6 – Peter Whigham, English poet and translator (died 1987)
• March 8 – Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (died 1985)
• March 14 – John Wain, English novelist and short-story writer (died 1994)
• March 16 – Ismith Khan, Trinidad-born novelist (died 2002)
• March 21 – Peter Brook, English theatre director (died 2022)
• March 25 – Flannery O'Connor, American author (died 1964)
• March 27 – John Bayley, Indian-born English literary critic (died 2015)
• April 25 – Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio play and novel writer (died 1983)
• May 1 – Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Brazilian Ialorixá and writer (died 2018)
• May 4 – Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter (died 2017)
• May 25 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican writer (died 1974)
• June 10 &ndash; Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (died 2017)
• June 11 &ndash; William Styron, American writer (died 2006)
• June 15 – Attilâ Ä°lhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (died 2005)
• June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson, French writer (died 2017)
• June 17 – Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary critic (died 2001)
• June 25 – John Briley, American writer (d. 2019)
• July 4 – Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (died 2018)
• July 5 – Jean Raspail, French writer (died 2020)
• July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (died 2020)
• July 19 – Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet and writer (died 2026)
• July 26 – Ana María Matute, Spanish novelist (died 2014)
• August 1
• Pam Gems, born Iris Pamela Price, English playwright (died 2011)
• Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer, poet, and translator (died 2000)
• August 12
• Donald Justice, American poet and educator (died 2004)
• Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic writer (died 2011)
• August 17 – John Hawkes, American novelist (died 1998)
• August 18 – Brian Aldiss, English science fiction author and editor (died 2017)
• August 25 – Thea Astley, Australian writer (died 2004)
• August 28
• Philip Purser, English television critic and novelist (died 2022)
• Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer (died 1991)
• September 4 – Forrest Carter, American speechwriter and author (died 1979)
• September 6 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian novelist and playwright (died 2019)
• October 1
• Christine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2005)
• Diana Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2015)
• October 1 – Abraham Louis Schneiders, Dutch writer and diplomat (died 2020)
• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer (died 2012)
• October 8 – Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian writer and dissident (died 1997)
• October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2013)
• October 25 – Romek Marber, Polish-born book designer (died 2020)
• October 26 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer and artist (died 2007)
• October 29 – Dominick Dunne, American writer, investigative journalist and producer (died 2009)
• December 19 – Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (died 2017)

Deaths

• January 4 – Elisabeth von Heyking, German novelist, travel writer and diarist (born 1861)
• January 27 – Friedrich von Hügel, Austrian theologian (born 1852)
• January 31 – George Washington Cable, American writer (born 1844)
• February 16 – Francisco Díaz-Silveira, Cuban journalist and poet (born 1871)
• March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and politician (born 1879)
• March 26 – Hugo Bettauer, Austrian journalist and writer (born 1872)
• April 7 – Gerhard Gran, Norwegian literary historian, essayist and biographer (born 1856)
• April 8 – Emma Curtis Hopkins, American spiritual writer (born 1849)
• May 2 – Antun Branko Å imić, Croatian poet (born 1898)
• May 12 – Amy Lowell, American poet (born 1874)
• May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British adventure novelist (b. 1856)
• June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, French poet (born 1870)
• July 13 – Margaret Dye Ellis, American social reformer, lobbyist, and correspondent (born 1845)
• July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English novelist (born 1859)
• July 16 – Pyotr Gnedich, Russian writer (born 1855)
• August 15 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian journalist, biographer and patron of the arts (born 1828)
• September 11 – Gustav Kastropp, German poet and librettist (born 1844)
• October 31 – José Ingenieros, Argentine positivist philosopher, essayist and physician (born 1877)
• October 7 – Felix Liebermann, German-Jewish historian (born 1851)
• October 27 – Darrell Figgis, Irish-born writer and politician, suicide (born 1882)
• c. November – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (born 1834)
• December 5 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize winner (born 1867)
• December 15 – Emma B. Alrich, American journalist, author, and educator (born 1845)
• December 28 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (born 1895)

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Geoffrey Scott, The Portrait of Zelide
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands
• Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw (awarded in 1926)
• Prix Goncourt: Maurice Genevoix, Raboliot
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Who Died Twice
• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Edna Ferber, So Big

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