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The year 1995 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter.
Simon & Schuster paid US$4.2 million for the hardcover publishing rights for The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans after the self-published book appeared on The New York Times bestseller list.

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Louisa May Alcott - A Long Fatal Love Chase (previously unpublished manuscript)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
Martin Day - The Menagerie
L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff - The Exotic Enchanter
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
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
Welwyn Wilton Katz - Out of the Dark
Stephen King - Rose Madder
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
Stephen Marley - Managra
Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes
Val McDermid - The Mermaids Singing
David A. McIntee - Lords of the Storm and Sanctuary
James A. Michener - Miracle in Seville
Mary McGarry Morris - Songs in Ordinary Time
Phil O'Brien - Memories of the Irish-Israeli War
Kate Orman - Set Piece
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)
Justin Richards - System Shock
Gareth Roberts - The Romance of Crime and Zamper
Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh
Gary Russell - Invasion of the Cat-People
Josè Saramago - Blindness
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

Horton Foote - The Young Man From Atlanta
Terrence McNally - Master Class
Yasmina Reza - The Unexpected Man
Tom Stoppard - Indian Ink
Sarah Kane - "Blasted"

Poetry

Main article: 1995 in poetry

Mark Doty - Atlantis: Poems

Non-fiction

Jean Baudrillard - The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
Paul Davies - About Time
L. Sprague de Camp - The Ape-Man Within
Mark Epstein - Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
Leonard Nimoy - I Am Spock
Man Ray, André Breton - Man Ray, 1890-1976
Condoleezza Rice & Philip Zelikow -Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars
Simon Schama - Landscape and Memory
Sterling Seagrave - The Lords of the Rim
Miranda Seymour - Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim
Binod Bihari Verma - Tapasa vai Ganga Maithili biography

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
- May Sarton - American writer
- Stephen Spender, poet
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

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney

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

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.

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

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