1995 in literature

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

Events

January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete Blasted at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage.[1]
February 28 – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first appears 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 is 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]
August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing.[6]
December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson.

Uncertain dates

Simon & Schuster pays US$4.2 million for hardcover publishing rights to The Christmas Box, self-published by Richard Paul Evans, which has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.[7]
Fjærland in Norway becomes a book town.[8]

New books

Fiction

Ben Aaronovitch – The Also People
Louisa May Alcott (posthumous) – A Long Fatal Love Chase
Roger MacBride Allen
- Ambush at Corellia
- Assault at Selonia
- 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
Thomas Brussig – Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us)
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 (posthumous) – The First Man (Le Premier Homme, unfinished)
Andrew Cartmel – Warlock
Mary Higgins Clark – Silent Night
Michael Connelly – The Last Coyote
Paul Cornell – Human Nature
Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Battle
- Battle Flag
- 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
Stanley Elkin – Mrs. Ted Bliss
Kirill Eskov – The Gospel of Afranius («Евангелие от Афрания»)
Nicholas Evans – The Horse Whisperer
Timothy Findley – The Piano Man's Daughter
Richard Ford – Independence Day
Jon Fosse – Melancholy (Melancholia I)
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
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled
Elfriede Jelinek – The Children of the Dead
Jo Jung-rae – Arirang
Welwyn Wilton Katz – Out of the Dark
Stephen King – Rose Madder
Joe R. Lansdale – The Two-Bear Mambo
John le Carré – Our Game
Andy Lane
- The Empire of Glass
- Original Sin
Paul Leonard
- Dancing the Code
- Toy Soldiers
Jonathan Lethem – Amnesia Moon
Barry Letts – The Ghosts of N-Space
Robert Ludlum – The Apocalypse Watch
Steve Lyons
- Head Games
- Time of Your Life
Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes (semi-autobiographical)
Val McDermid – The Mermaids Singing
David A. McIntee
- Lords of the Storm
- Sanctuary
Andreï Makine – Dreams of My Russian Summers (Le Testament français)
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
Kate Orman – Set Piece
Terry Pratchett – Maskerade
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Relic
- Mount Dragon
Christoph Ransmayr – The Dog King (Morbus Kitahara)
Jean Raspail – L'Anneau du pêcheur
Justin Richards – System Shock
Andrew Roberts – The Aachen Memorandum
Gareth Roberts
- The Romance of Crime
- 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 and Night
Jane Smiley - Moo
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

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
Alison Prince – The Sherwood Hero
Philip Pullman – Northern Lights (in US as The Golden Compass)
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)
Jacqueline Wilson – Double Act

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
Yasmina Reza – The Unexpected Man (L'homme du hasard)
Tom Stoppard – Indian Ink

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)

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)[9]
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[10]

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

References

Saunders, Graham (2002). Love me or kill me: Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5956-9.
Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
"Dylan Thomas Centre: University of Wales leases Swansea building". BBC. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
"History & Timeline". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
Byers, Ann (2006). Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon.com. The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 46–47.
"140 years at Blackwell's". Blackwell's. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
Geoff Hamilton; Brian Jones (12 May 2010). Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Infobase Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4381-1694-5.
Jen Campbell (2 October 2014). The Bookshop Book. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4721-1670-3.
"Authors : St Clair, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
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

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[1] Saunders, Graham (2002). Love me or kill me: Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5956-9.

[Pocket_On_This_Day-2] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[3] "Dylan Thomas Centre: University of Wales leases Swansea building". BBC. 23 February 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.

[4] "History & Timeline". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02.

[5] Byers, Ann (2006). Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon.com. The Rosen Publishing Group. pp. 46–47.

[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] "Authors : St Clair, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.

[10] 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