1995 in literature
Overview of the events of 1995 in literature
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 – Peter Cook , English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937 )[ 14]
January 30 – Gerald Durrell , English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925 )[ 15]
January 31 – George Abbott , American writer, director and producer (born 1887 )[ 16]
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith , American crime novelist (born 1921 )[ 17]
February 6
February 21
February 23 – James Herriot , English veterinary novelist (born 1916 )[ 21]
March 9 – Ian Ballantine , American publisher (born 1916 )[ 22]
March 20 – Sidney Kingsley , American dramatist (born 1906 )[ 23]
April 14 – Brian Coffey , Irish poet (born 1905 )[ 24]
April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch writer (born 1921 )[ 25]
May 30 or May 31 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu , Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897 )
June 14 – Roger Zelazny , American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937 )[ 26]
June 15 – Charles Bennett , English screenwriter (born 1899 )[ 27]
June 20 – Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911 )
June 21 – Katarína Lazarová , Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914 )
June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969 )
July 6 – Aziz Nesin , Turkish writer (born 1915 )[ 28]
July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi , Indian author and poet (born 1908 )[ 29]
July 16
July 25 – Janice Elliott , English novelist and children's writer (born 1931 )
August 3 – Edward Whittemore , American novelist, (born 1933 )
August 17 – Howard Koch , American screenwriter (born 1901 )[ 31]
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer , French composer and writer (born 1910 )
August 29 – Michael Ende , German fantasy novelist (born 1929 )[ 32]
September 8 – Eileen Chang , Chinese writer (born 1920 )[ 33]
October 13 – Henry Roth , Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906 )
October 22 – Kingsley Amis , English novelist (born 1922 )[ 34]
October 29 – Terry Southern , American screenwriter (born 1924 )[ 35]
November 4 – Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher (born 1925 )[ 36]
November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian writer (executed, born 1941 )
November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman , American author and poet (born 1911 )
November 16 – Robert H. Adleman , American novelist and historian (born 1919 )
November 17 – Marguerite Young , American novelist, poet and biographer (born 1908 )
November 20 – Robie Macauley , American writer and literary critic (born 1919 )[ 37]
November 22 – Margaret St. Clair , American science fiction writer (born 1911 )[ 38]
December 2 – Robertson Davies , Canadian novelist (born 1913 )[ 39]
December 9 – Toni Cade Bambara , American writer (born 1939 )
December 30 – Heiner Müller , German dramatist (born 1929 )[ 40]
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize : Pat Barker , The Ghost Road
Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Philip Pullman , Northern Lights [ 42]
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
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 .
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^ Flint, Peter B. (March 21, 1995). "Sidney Kingsley, Playwrite, Is Dead at 88; Creator of 'Dead End' and 'Men in White' " . The New York Times .
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^ Pace, Eric (July 7, 1995). "Aziz Nesin of Turkey Dies at 80; Writer Escaped Militants' Arson" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved January 31, 2020 .
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^ Pace, Eric (July 18, 1995). "Stephen Spender, Poet of Melancholic Vision and Social Conscience, Dies at 86" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved October 8, 2017 .
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^ Pace, Eric, "Robie Macauley, 76, Editor, Educator And Fiction Writer" (Obituary) , The New York Times , November 23, 1995
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^ Eric Pace (January 3, 1996). "Heiner Muller, the Playwright And Social Critic, Dies at 66" . The New York Times .
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