The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Poetry Main article: 1995 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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
- August 3 - Edward Whittemore, writer
- August 19 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer
- August 29 - Michael Ende, fantasy novelist
- October 13 - Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer
- October 22 - Kingsley Amis, author
- November 13 - Mary Elizabeth Counselman - American author and poet
- 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
[edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] France [edit] United Kingdom - Booker Prize: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- 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
[edit] 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
- Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
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