Events
*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 (novel), The Information'' *Kevin J. Anderson – ''Darksaber (novel), Darksaber'' *Iain Banks – ''Whit (novel), Whit'' *Pat Barker – ''The Ghost Road'' *Daniel Blythe – ''Infinite Requiem'' *Thomas Brussig – '':de:Helden wie wir, Helden wie wir'' (Heroes Like Us) *Christopher Bulis – ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bulis novel), 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 (Cartmel novel), Warlock'' *Mary Higgins Clark – ''Silent Night'' *Michael Connelly – ''The Last Coyote'' *Paul Cornell – ''Human Nature (novel), Human Nature'' *Bernard Cornwell **''Sharpe's Battle (novel), Sharpe's Battle'' **''Battle Flag'' **''The Winter King (novel), The Winter King'' *Douglas Coupland – ''Microserfs'' *Robert Crais – ''Voodoo River'' *Michael Crichton – ''The Lost World (Michael Crichton), The Lost World'' *Maurice G. Dantec – ''Les Racines du mal'' *Martin Day – ''The Menagerie (novel), The Menagerie'' *L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – ''The Exotic Enchanter'' *Samuel Delany – ''Hogg (novel), Hogg'' *Terrance Dicks – ''Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans#Novelisation, 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 (book), The Horse Whisperer'' *Timothy Findley – ''The Piano Man's Daughter'' *Richard Ford – ''Independence Day (Ford novel), Independence Day'' *Jon Fosse – ''Melancholy (novel), Melancholy'' (''Melancholia I'') *Carlos Fuentes – ''The Crystal Frontier (La frontera de cristal)'' *John Gardner (thriller writer), John Gardner – ''GoldenEye#Novelisation, GoldenEye'' *John Grisham – ''The Rainmaker (John Grisham), The Rainmaker'' *Barbara Hambly – ''Children of the Jedi'' *Craig Hinton – ''Millennial Rites'' *Nick Hornby – ''High Fidelity (novel), High Fidelity'' *Kazuo Ishiguro – ''The Unconsoled'' *Elfriede Jelinek – ''The Children of the Dead'' *Jo Jung-rae – ''Arirang'' *Welwyn Wilton Katz – ''Out of the Dark (1995 novel), Out of the Dark'' *Stephen King – ''Rose Madder (novel), Rose Madder'' *Joe R. Lansdale – ''The Two-Bear Mambo'' *John le Carré – ''Our Game'' *Andy Lane **''The Empire of Glass'' **''Original Sin (Lane novel), Original Sin'' *Paul Leonard (writer), Paul Leonard **''Dancing the Code'' **''Toy Soldiers (novel), Toy Soldiers'' *Jonathan Lethem – ''Amnesia Moon'' *Barry Letts – ''The Ghosts of N-Space'' *Robert Ludlum – ''The Apocalypse Watch'' *Steve Lyons (writer), Steve Lyons **''Head Games (novel), Head Games'' **''Time of Your Life (novel), Time of Your Life'' *Frank McCourt – ''Angela's Ashes'' (semi-autobiographical) *Val McDermid – ''The Mermaids Singing'' *David A. McIntee **''Lords of the Storm'' **''Sanctuary (McIntee novel), Sanctuary'' *Andreï Makine – ''Dreams of My Russian Summers (Le Testament français)'' *Henning Mankell – ''Chronicler of the Winds (Comédia infantil)'' *Stephen Marley (writer), 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 (novel), Set Piece'' *Terry Pratchett – ''Maskerade'' *Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child **''Relic (novel), Relic'' **''Mount Dragon'' *Christoph Ransmayr – ''The Dog King (Morbus Kitahara)'' *Jean Raspail – ''L'Anneau du pêcheur'' *Justin Richards – ''System Shock (novel), System Shock'' *Andrew Roberts (historian), Andrew Roberts – ''The Aachen Memorandum'' *Gareth Roberts (writer), 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 (novel), Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira)'' *W. G. Sebald – ''The Rings of Saturn, Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt'' (The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage) *Sidney Sheldon – ''Morning, Noon and Night (novel), Morning, Noon and Night'' *Jane Smiley - ''Moo (novel), Moo'' *Danielle Steel – ''Five Days In Paris'' *Neal Stephenson – ''The Diamond Age, The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' *James B. Stewart – ''Blood Sport'' *Dave Stone – ''Sky Pirates!'' *Jim Turner (editor), Jim Turner, editor – ''Cthulhu Mythos anthology#Cthulhu 2000, Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology'' *Andrew Vachss – ''Andrew Vachss#The Burke series, 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 (children's writer), Elizabeth Arnold – ''The Parsley Parcel'' *Marion Zimmer Bradley (with Rosemary Edghill) – ''Ghostlight'' *Drama
*Parv Bancil – ''Papa Was A Bus Conductor'' *Jez Butterworth – ''Mojo (play), Mojo'' *Margaret Edson – ''Wit (play), Wit'' *Horton Foote – ''The Young Man From Atlanta'' *Jon Fosse – ''The Name (play), The Name'' *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 (book), About Time'' *Robin Dunbar – ''The Trouble with Science'' *Mark Epstein – ''Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective'' *Bill Gates – ''The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book), 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 (book), 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 (Seagrave book), Lords of the Rim'' *Miranda Seymour – ''Robert Graves: Life on the Edge'' *Howard Stern – ''Miss America (book), Miss America'' *Binod Bihari Verma – ''Tapasa vai Ganga'' Maithili language#Literature, 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 in literature, 1937) *January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925 in literature, 1925) *January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887 in literature, 1887) *February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921 in literature, 1921) *February 6 – Xia Yan (playwright), Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900 in literature, 1900) *February 21 **Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924 in literature, 1924) **Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922 in literature, 1922) *February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916 in literature, 1916) *March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916 in literature, 1916) *April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905 in literature, 1905) *May 30 or May 31 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897 in literature, 1897) *June 14 – Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937 in literature, 1937) *June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969 in literature, 1969) *Awards
*Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney *Camões Prize: José SaramagoAustralia
*The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Richard King (Australian author), 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 (poet), Peter Boyle, ''Coming Home From the World'' *Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly, ''Coming Up for Light'' *Miles Franklin Award: Helen Darville, Helen Demidenko, ''The Hand That Signed the Paper''Canada
*Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award *Giller Prize, 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''Faculty of Arts, 1995, Edna Staebler AwardFrance
*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 in Literature, Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Pullman, ''Northern Lights (Pullman novel), Northern Lights'' *James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christopher Priest (novelist), 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 *1995 Whitbread Awards, 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 Medals#Fiction, novel, short story, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., William Maxwell *Carnegie Medal in Literature, Carnegie Medal: Philip Pullman, ''Northern Lights (Pullman novel), Northern Lights'' *Compton Crook Award: Doranna Durgin, ''Dun Lady's Jess'' *Hugo Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, ''Vorkosigan Saga#Mirror Dance, Mirror Dance'' *Nebula Award: Robert J. Sawyer, 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 (poet), Philip Levine, ''The Simple Truth'' *Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Joan D. Hedrick, ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life'' *Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Jonathan Weiner, ''The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time'' *Pulitzer Prize for History: Doris Goodwin, ''No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'' *Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate (writer), 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 RuefleElsewhere
*Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, ''Dia'' *Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, ''Pieces of Music'' *Premio Nadal: Ignacio Carrión Hernández, ''Cruzar el Danubio'' *Premio San Clemente: Xurxo Borrazás, ''Vicious''References
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