1995 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1995.
Contents
Events
- January 12 - Première of the completed version of Sarah Kane's Blasted at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage.[1]
- February 28 - The Diary of Bridget Jones column first published in The Independent newspaper (London).[2]
- March 1 - The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter.[3]
- April 23 - World Book Day first celebrated.
- July 16 - Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book, Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.[4][5]
- December 13 - Release of the film of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility with an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson who stars with Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Greg Wise. The director is Ang Lee.
- Simon & Schuster pay US$4.2 million for the hardcover publishing rights to The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans after the self-published book appears on The New York Times Best Seller list.
- Fjærland in Norway becomes a book town.
New books
- Ben Aaronovitch - The Also People
- Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal Love Chase (previously unpublished manuscript)
- Roger MacBride Allen - Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia and Showdown at Centerpoint
- Julia Alvarez - In the Time of the Butterflies
- Martin Amis - The Information
- Kevin J. Anderson - Darksaber
- Iain Banks - Whit
- Pat Barker - The Ghost Road
- Daniel Blythe - Infinite Requiem
- Christopher Bulis - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale - Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
- T. C. Boyle - The Tortilla Curtain
- Albert Camus - The First Man (Le premier homme) (unfinished novel, published posthumously)
- Andrew Cartmel - Warlock
- Mary Higgins Clark - Silent Night
- Michael Connelly - The Last Coyote
- Paul Cornell - Human Nature
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Battle, Battle Flag and The Winter King
- Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
- Robert Crais - Voodoo River
- Michael Crichton - The Lost World
- Maurice G. Dantec - Les Racines du mal
- Martin Day - The Menagerie
- L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff - The Exotic Enchanter
- Samuel Delany - Hogg
- Terrance Dicks - Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
- Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before
- Nicholas Evans - The Horse Whisperer
- Timothy Findley - The Piano Man's Daughter
- Richard Ford - Independence Day
- Carlos Fuentes - The Crystal Frontier (La frontera de cristal)
- John Gardner -GoldenEye
- John Grisham - The Rainmaker
- Barbara Hambly - Children of the Jedi
- Craig Hinton - Millennial Rites
- Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
- Robert Hughes (as R.U. Slime) - Gooflumps (two-part series)
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
- Elfriede Jelinek - The Children of the Dead
- Welwyn Wilton Katz - Out of the Dark
- Stephen King - Rose Madder
- Joe R. Lansdale - The Two-Bear Mambo
- Joe R. Lansdale - Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
- John le Carré - Our Game
- Andy Lane - The Empire of Glass and Original Sin
- Paul Leonard - Dancing the Code and Toy Soldiers
- Jonathan Lethem - Amnesia Moon
- Barry Letts - The Ghosts of N-Space
- Robert Ludlum - The Apocalypse Watch
- Steve Lyons - Head Games and Time of Your Life
- Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
- Val McDermid - The Mermaids Singing
- David A. McIntee - Lords of the Storm and Sanctuary
- Henning Mankell - Chronicler of the Winds (Comédia infantil)
- Stephen Marley - Managra
- Zakes Mda - Ways of Dying
- James A. Michener - Miracle in Seville
- Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
- Mary McGarry Morris - Songs in Ordinary Time
- Phil O'Brien - Memories of the Irish-Israeli War
- Kate Orman - Set Piece
- Leslie and Les Parrott - Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
- Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Relic (novel) and Mount Dragon
- Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (published in North America as The Golden Compass)
- Jean Raspail - L'Anneau du pêcheur
- Justin Richards - System Shock
- Gareth Roberts - The Romance of Crime and Zamper
- J. Jill Robinson - Eggplant Wife
- Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theater
- Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh
- Gary Russell - Invasion of the Cat-People
- Josè Saramago - Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira)
- W. G. Sebald - Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt ("The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage")
- Sidney Sheldon - Morning, Noon, & Night
- Danielle Steel - Five Days In Paris
- Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
- James B. Stewart - Blood Sport
- Dave Stone - Sky Pirates!
- Jim Turner, editor - Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology
- Andrew Vachss - Footsteps of the Hawk
- Robert James Waller - Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
- Dave Wolverton - The Courtship of Princess Leia
New drama
- Jez Butterworth - Mojo
- Horton Foote - The Young Man From Atlanta
- Sarah Kane - Blasted
- Terrence McNally - Master Class
- Yasmina Reza - The Unexpected Man
- Tom Stoppard - Indian Ink
Poetry
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Non-fiction
- Jean Baudrillard - The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
- John G. Bennett - The Masters of Wisdom (posthumously)
- George G. Blackburn - The Guns of Normandy[6]
- 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
- 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
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)
- April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)
- 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)
Awards
Australia
- 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
Canada
- 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[7]
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
United Kingdom
- 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
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
- 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
Elsewhere
- 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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- ↑ Faculty of Arts, 1996, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, George G. Blackburn, Retrieved 11/27/2012
- ↑ Faculty of Arts, 1995, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Denise Chong, Retrieved 11/27/2012
