This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1995.
Children and young people
Chris Van Allsburg - Bad Day at Riverbend
Elizabeth Arnold – The Parsley Parcel
Virginia Hamilton (with Leo and Diane Dillon) - Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Joe R. Lansdale – Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
Jim Murphy - The Great Fire
Alison Prince – The Sherwood Hero
Philip Pullman – Northern Lights (in US as The Golden Compass)
Diana Pullein-Thompson – I Wanted a Pony
Josephine Pullein-Thompson – Six Ponies
Jacqueline Wilson – Double Act
Mario Vargas Llosa (with Willi Glasauer) – Hitos y Mitos Literarios (The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works)
Jez Butterworth – Mojo
Margaret Edson – Wit
Horton Foote – The Young Man From Atlanta
Jon Fosse – The Name
Sarah Kane – Blasted
Terrence McNally – Master Class
Yasmina Reza – The Unexpected Man
Tom Stoppard – Indian Ink
Mark Doty – Atlantis: Poems
Jean Baudrillard – The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
John G. Bennett (posthumously) – The Masters of Wisdom
George G. Blackburn – The Guns of Normandy
Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research
Pascal Bruckner – The Temptation of Innocence
L. Sprague de Camp – The Ape-Man Within
Paul Davies – About Time
Robin Dunbar – The Trouble with Science
Mark Epstein – Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Bill Gates – The Road Ahead
Doris Kearns Goodwin – No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock
Man Ray and André Breton – Man Ray, 1890–1976
Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow – Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
Oliver Sacks – An Anthropologist on Mars
Simon Schama – Landscape and Memory
Sterling Seagrave – Lords of the Rim
Miranda Seymour – Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
Howard Stern – Miss America
Tim Cornell – The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
Binod Bihari Verma – Tapasa vai Ganga Maithili, biography
Ibn Warraq – Why I Am Not a Muslim
January 9 – Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)
January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)
January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)
February 6 – Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)
February 21
Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)
Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)
April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)
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)
June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
July 16
May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)
August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
August 29 – Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)
October 13 – Henry Roth, Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906)
October 22 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist (born 1922)
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 22 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born 1913)
December 9 – Toni Cade Bambara, American writer (born 1939)
December 30 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (born 1929)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney
Camões Prize: José Saramago
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Richard King, Kindling Does For Firewood
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Bruce Beaver, Anima and Other Poems
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle, Coming Home From the World
Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly, Coming Up for Light
Miles Franklin Award: Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed the Paper
Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
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.
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
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
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
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 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
New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
Premio Nadal: Ignacio Carrión Hernández, Cruzar el Danubio
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