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See also:
1994 in literature
,
other events of 1995
,
1996 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
1995 in literature
Events
New books
New drama
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
top
Events
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
-
Condoleezza Rice
&
Philip Zelikow
Simon & Schuster
paid US$4.2 million for the hardcover publishing rights for
The Christmas Box
by
Richard Paul Evans
after the self-published book appeared on
The New York Times
bestseller list.
top
New books
Ambush at Corellia
-
Roger MacBride Allen
The Apocalypse Watch
-
Robert Ludlum
Assault at Selonia
-
Roger MacBride Allen
Blindness
-
Josè Saramago
Blood Sport
-
James B. Stewart
Children of the Jedi
-
Barbara Hambly
Darksaber
-
Kevin J. Anderson
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
-
Neal Stephenson
The First Man
(
Le premier homme
) -
Albert Camus
Five Days In Paris
-
Danielle Steel
GoldenEye
-
John Gardner
The Horse Whisperer
-
Nicholas Evans
Independence Day
-
Richard Ford
The Information
-
Martin Amis
The Island of the Day Before
-
Umberto Eco
Landscape and Memory
-
Simon Schama
The Lost World
-
Michael Crichton
Man Ray, 1890-1976
-
Man Ray
,
Andre Breton
Maskerade
-
Terry Pratchett
Microserfs
-
Douglas Coupland
Miracle in Seville
-
James A. Michener
Morning, Noon, & Night
-
Sidney Sheldon
Northern Lights
(published in North America as
The Golden Compass
) -
Philip Pullman
Our Game
-
John le Carré
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
-
Robert James Waller
The Rainmaker
-
John Grisham
Rose Madder
-
Stephen King
Showdown at Centerpoint
-
Roger MacBride Allen
Silent Night
-
Mary Higgins Clark
The Tortilla Curtain
-
T.C. Boyle
top
New drama
Love! Valour! Compassion!
-
Terrence McNally
Indian Ink
-
Tom Stoppard
top
Non-fiction
Mark Epstein
-
Thoughts Without a Thinker
: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Gerina Dunwich
-
The Wicca Book of Days
Oliver Sacks
-
An Anthropologist on Mars
Miranda Seymour
-
top
Deaths
January 9
-
Peter Cook
, comedian, satirist and writer
January 30
Gerald Durrell
, British naturalist, writer
January 31
-
George Abbott
, writer, director, producer
February 4
-
Patricia Highsmith
, author
February 12
-
Robert Bolt
, writer
February 21
-
Calder Willingham
, writer
February 23
-
James Herriot
, author
April 14
-
Brian Coffey
, poet
June 14
-
Roger Zelazny
, American writer of
fantasy
and
science fiction
July 16
-
Stephen Spender
, poet
August 3
-
Edward Whittemore
, writer
August 29
-
Michael Ende
, fantasy novelist
October 22
-
Kingsley Amis
, author
November 16
-
Robert H. Adleman
, American novelist and historian
November 22
-
Margaret St. Clair
, science fiction writer
December 2
-
Robertson Davies
, Canadian novelist
December 30
-
Heiner Müller
, dramatist
May Sarton
- American writer
top
Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature
:
Seamus Heaney
top
Canada
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction
:
Rohinton Mistry
,
A Fine Balance
See
1995 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
top
France
Prix Goncourt
:
Andreï Makine
,
Le Testament français
Prix Décembre
:
Jean Échenoz
,
Les Grandes Blondes
Prix Médicis
French:
Vassilis Alexakis
,
La Langue maternelle
and
Andreï Makine
,
Le testament français
Prix Médicis
International:
Alessandro Baricco
,
Châteaux de la colère
top
United Kingdom
Booker Prize
:
Pat Barker
,
The Ghost Road
Cholmondeley Award
:
U.A. Fanthorpe
,
Christopher Reid
,
C. H. Sisson
,
Kit Wright
Whitbread Best Book Award
:
Kate Atkinson
,
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
top
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
Hugo Award
:
Neal Stephenson
,
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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
Wallace Stevens Award
:
James Tate
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