This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995.
Events
Uncertain dates
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Films
Births
Deaths
- January 9 â Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)
- January 30 â Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)
- January 31 â George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)
- February 4 â Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)
- February 6
- James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)
- Xia Yan (å¤Âè¡Â), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)
- February 14 â Mary Paik Lee, Korean-American writer (born 1900)
- February 20 â Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)
- February 21 â Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
- February 23 â James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)
- March 9 â Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916)
- March 20 â Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (born 1906)
- April 14 â Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)
- April 27 â Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)
- May 30 or May 31 â ÃÂtefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897)
- June 14 â Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937)
- June 15 â Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (born 1899)
- June 20 â Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
- June 21â KatarÃÂna Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914)
- June 25 â Qiu Miaojin (é±å¦Âæ´¥), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
- July 6 â Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)
- July 13 â Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (born 1908)
- July 16
- May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
- Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)
- July 25 â Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
- August 3 â Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
- August 17 â Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born 1901)
- August 19 â Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
- August 29 â Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)
- September 8 â Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (born 1920)
- October 13 â Henry Roth, Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906)
- October 22 â Kingsley Amis, English novelist (born 1922)
- October 29 â Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)
- November 4 â Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)
- November 10 â Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer (executed, born 1941)
- November 13 â Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (born 1911)
- November 16 â Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (born 1919)
- November 17 â Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (born 1908)
- November 20 â Robie Macauley, American writer and literary critic (born 1919)
- November 22 â Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
- December 2 â Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born 1913)
- December 9 â Toni Cade Bambara, American writer (born 1939)
- December 30 â Heiner Müller, German dramatist (born 1929)
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christopher Priest, The Prestige
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth
- Cholmondeley Award: U. A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright
- Eric Gregory Award: Colette Bryce, Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Mark Wormald
- Newdigate prize: Antony Dunn
- Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, William Maxwell
- Carnegie Medal: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
- Compton Crook Award: Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess
- Hugo Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance
- Nebula Award: Robert Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction: Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- Pulitzer Prize for History: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
- Whiting Awards:
Fiction: Michael Cunningham, Reginald McKnight, Matthew Stadler, Melanie Sumner
Nonfiction: André Aciman, Lucy Grealy (nonfiction/poetry), Suzannah Lessard, Russ Rymer
Poetry: James L. McMichael, Mary Ruefle
Elsewhere
Notes
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