1975 in literature
See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Writing under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar," author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.
- Hearing Secret Harmonies, the twelfth and final novel of the A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.
- Milan Kundera emigrated to France.
New books
- Edward Abbey - The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Martin Amis - Dead Babies
- Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
- Thomas Berger - Sneaky People
- Timothy L. Bottoms - Mr. Schutzer
- Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man
- Morley Callaghan - A Fine and Private Place
- Agatha Christie - Curtain
- James Clavell - Shogun
- Susan Cooper - The Grey King
- Michael Crichton - The Great Train Robbery
- A. J. Cronin - The Minstrel Boy
- Robertson Davies - World of Wonders
- Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren
- E. L. Doctorow - Ragtime
- Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - La vie devant soi
- Arthur Hailey - The Moneychangers
- Thomas Harris - Black Sunday
- Georgette Heyer - My Lord John
- Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust
- Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
- David Lodge - Changing Places
- Robert Ludlum - The Road to Gandolfo
- Gabriel García Márquez - El Otoño del Patriarca
- Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
- Tim O'Brien - Northern Lights
- Robert B. Parker - Mortal Stakes
- Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank (the first in the Amelia Peabody series)
- Anthony Powell - Hearing Secret Harmonies
- James Purdy - In A Shallow Grave
- Judith Rossner - Looking for Mister Goodbar
- Nawal El Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero
- Paul Scott - A Division of the Spoils
- Anya Seton - Smouldering Fires
- Tom Sharpe - Blott on the Landscape
- Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (individual editions)
- Glendon Swarthout - The Shootist
- Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys
- Roger Zelazny - Sign of the Unicorn
Poetry
- Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
Non-fiction
- Philip Agee -
- Kingsley Amis - Rudyard Kipling and His World
- Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
- Paul Fussell - The Great War and Modern Memory
Births
- January 13 - Daniel Kehlmann, novelist
- October 27 - Zadie Smith, novelist
Deaths
- January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
- February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b.1881), English comic novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- February 14 - Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley
- March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b.1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
- June 8 - Murray Leinster, science fiction writer
- September 20 - Saint-John Perse, poet
- October 5 - Constance Malleson, actress and writer
- October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
- November 13 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
- November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor, novelist
- November 23 - Francis Webb, poet
- November 27 - Ross McWhirter, joint author of the Guinness Book of Records
- December 4 - Hannah Arendt, philosopher
- December 7 - Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist
- date unknown - Janko Glazer, (b.1893) - poet
- date unknown - Vojko Gorjan, (b.1949) - poet
Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke
- Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Heat and Dust
- See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman Maccaig, John Ormond
- Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson
- Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
- Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - La vie devant soi
- Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis
- Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse - United States
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Seascape
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
- Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale
Categories
1975 books