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The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.
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.

Books

Fiction

Edward Abbey - The Monkey Wrench Gang
Martin Amis - Dead Babies
Donald Barthelme - The Dead Father
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 - Shōgun
Susan Cooper - The Grey King
Michael Crichton - The Great Train Robbery
A. J. Cronin - The Minstrel Boy
Robertson Davies - World of Wonders
L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Compleat Enchanter
Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren
August Derleth - Harrigan's File
E. L. Doctorow - Ragtime
William Gaddis - J R
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
J. Sheridan LeFanu - The Purcell Papers
David Lodge - Changing Places
Robert Ludlum - The Road to Gandolfo
John D. MacDonald - The Dreadful Lemon Sky
Gabriel García Márquez - El Otoño del Patriarca
Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
Gary Myers - The House of the Worm
V.S. Naipaul - Guerillas
Tim O'Brien - Northern Lights
Gerald W. Page, editor - Nameless Places
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)
M. P. Shiel - Xélucha and Others
Rex Stout - A Family Affair
Glendon Swarthout - The Shootist
Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys
Jack Vance - Showboat World
Roger Zelazny - Sign of the Unicorn

Poetry

Main article: 1975 in poetry

Lin Carter - Dreams from R'lyeh
Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies

Non-fiction

Philip Agee - Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Kingsley Amis - Rudyard Kipling and His World
Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
L. Sprague de Camp
- Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages
- Lovecraft: a Biography
- The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard
Paul Fussell - The Great War and Modern Memory
Frank Belknap Long - Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nitghtside
Philip Roth - Reading Myself and Others
Paul Theroux - The Great Railway Bazaar

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
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium
Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
Newdigate prize: Andrew Motion
Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, Las ninfas
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

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