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Overview of the events of 1995 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995 .
Uncertain dates
Children and young people
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]
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
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 Non-Fiction :
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
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
^ Saunders, Graham (2002). Love me or kill me: Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes . Manchester University Press.
ISBN
0-7190-5956-9 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
"Dylan Thomas Centre: University of Wales leases Swansea building" .
BBC . 23 February 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012 .
^
"History & Timeline" . Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02 .
^ Byers, Ann (2006).
Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon.com . The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 46–47.
ISBN
9781404207172 .
^
"140 years at Blackwell's" . Blackwell's . Retrieved 2 July 2020 .
^ Geoff Hamilton; Brian Jones (12 May 2010).
Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction . Infobase Publishing. p. 117.
ISBN
978-1-4381-1694-5 .
^ Jen Campbell (2 October 2014).
The Bookshop Book . Little, Brown Book Group. p. 107.
ISBN
978-1-4721-1670-3 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 408
^ Hahn 2015, p. 275
^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
^ Hahn 2015, p. 361
^
"Nonfiction Book Review: Dive Right in, the Sharks Won't Bite: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Guide to Success by Jane Wesman, Author Kaplan Publishing $19.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-7931-1101-5" .
^
"Goodbyee ... Dud bids poignant farewell to his partner Pete" .
The Independent . May 2, 1995.
Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
^ Hilchey, Tim (February 1995).
"Gerald Durrell, 70, Who Prized Animals, Dies" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on March 31, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2014 .
^
"Abbott, George" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. I: A– Ak–Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2010. pp.
13 .
ISBN
978-1-59339-837-8 .
^ Hodgson, Godfrey (February 6, 1995).
"Obituary: Patricia Highsmith" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2017 .
^ Gussow, Mel (February 7, 1995).
James Merrill Is Dead at 68; Elegant Poet of Love and Loss .
^
"Xia Yan (Chinese author)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 13 June 2014 .
^ Calder, John (February 23, 1995).
"Obituary: Robert Bolt" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
^ Mary B. W. Tabor (February 24, 1995).
James Herriot, 78, Writer, Dies; Animal Stories Charmed People .
^ Mary B. W. Tabor (March 10, 1995).
"Ian Ballantine, 79, a Publisher Who Led Move Into Paperbacks" .
The New York Times .
^ 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 .
^ Michael Smith (16 April 1995).
"Obituary: Brian Coffey" .
The Independent .
^ Otterspeer, Willem (in Dutch) (2013). De mislukkingskunstenaar: Willem Frederik Hermans . Biografie, deel 1 (1921–1952), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam. [The Artist of Failure: Willem Frederik Hermans . A Biography, Vol. 1, (1921–1952)]
^ "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6, by Christopher S. Kovacs. In: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 6: The Road to Amber , NESFA Press, 2009.
^ Bergan, Ronald (19 June 1995). "The man who knew too much". The Guardian . p. 4.
^ 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 .
^
"Bengal gears up to pay homage to Ashapurna Devi" .
The Indian Express . Express News Service. December 28, 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2021 .
^ 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 .
^ Mel Gussow (August 18, 1995).
"Howard Koch, a Screenwriter For 'Casablanca,' Dies at 93" .
The New York Times . p. D17.
^ Alan Cowell (September 1, 1995).
"Michael Ende, 65, German Children's Writer" .
The New York Times .
^ Robert McG. Thomas Jr.
"Eileen Chang, 74, Chinese Writer Revered Outside the Mainland" .
The New York Times . Retrieved March 27, 2019 .
^ Jacobs, Eric (October 23, 1995).
"Sir Kingsley Amis obituary: From angry young man to old devil" . The Guardian . Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
^ Eric Pace (October 31, 1995).
"Terry Southern, Screenwriter, Is Dead at 71" .
The New York Times .
^ Craig R. Whitney (November 7, 1995).
"Gilles Deleuze, 70, French Professor and Author" .
The New York Times .
^ Pace, Eric,
"Robie Macauley, 76, Editor, Educator And Fiction Writer" (Obituary) , The New York Times , November 23, 1995
^
"Authors : St Clair, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia" . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 15 March 2019 .
^ Felicity Bryan (October 23, 2011).
"Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies" .
The Independent .
Archived from the original on May 1, 2022.
^ Eric Pace (January 3, 1996).
"Heiner Muller, the Playwright And Social Critic, Dies at 66" .
The New York Times .
^ Faculty of Arts, 1995,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University , Previous winners, Denise Chong, Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ Hahn 2015, p. 660