1995 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995.

Events[]

Uncertain dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • Chris Van Allsburg – Bad Day at Riverbend
  • Elizabeth Arnold – The Parsley Parcel
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley (with Rosemary Edghill) – Ghostlight
  • Jimmy Carter (illustrated by Amy Carter) – The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer
  • Donald Hall (with Barry Moser) – The Pageant
  • 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[9]
  • Alison Prince – The Sherwood Hero
  • Philip Pullman – Northern Lights (in US as The Golden Compass)[10]
  • Diana Pullein-Thompson – I Wanted a Pony
  • Josephine Pullein-Thompson – Six Ponies
  • Mario Vargas Llosa (with Willi Glasauer) – Hitos y Mitos Literarios (The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works)
  • Judith Viorst – Alexander, Who Is Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move[11]
  • Jacqueline Wilson – Double Act[12]

Drama[]

  • Parv Bancil – Papa Was A Bus Conductor
  • Jez Butterworth – Mojo
  • Margaret Edson – Wit
  • Horton Foote – The Young Man From Atlanta
  • Jon Fosse – The Name
  • Sarah Kane – Blasted
  • Terrence McNally – Master Class
  • Lynn Nottage
    • Crumbs from the Table of Joy
    • Por'Knockers
  • Yasmina Reza – The Unexpected Man (L'homme du hasard)
  • Tom Stoppard – Indian Ink

Poetry[]

Main article: 1995 in poetry
  • Mark Doty – Atlantis: Poems

Non-fiction[]

  • André Aciman – Out of Egypt
  • 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
  • Tim Cornell – The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
  • 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
  • Leslie and Les Parrott – Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
  • 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
  • Binod Bihari Verma – Tapasa vai Ganga Maithili, biography
  • Ibn Warraq – Why I Am Not a Muslim
  • Jane Wilson-Howarth – Bugs, Bites & Bowels (later editions as The Essential Guide to Travel Health)

Births[]

  • June 7 - Beth Reekles, Welsh author of young adult fiction
  • June 13 - S. C. Megale, American novelist and screenwritter

Deaths[]

  • 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)
  • March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (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)
  • July 25 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
  • 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)[13]
  • 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)

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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[]

  • New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
  • Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
  • Premio Nadal: , Cruzar el Danubio
  • Premio San Clemente: Xurxo Borrazás, Vicious

Notes[]

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References[]

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  6. ^ "140 years at Blackwell's". Blackwell's. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  7. ^ Geoff Hamilton; Brian Jones (12 May 2010). Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Infobase Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4381-1694-5.
  8. ^ Jen Campbell (2 October 2014). The Bookshop Book. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4721-1670-3.
  9. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 408
  10. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 275
  11. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
  12. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 361
  13. ^ "Authors : St Clair, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  14. ^ 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
  15. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
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