Overview of the events of 1975 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975.
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
Children and young people[edit]
Non-fiction[edit]
- January 15 – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist (heart attack, born 1915)
- February 14
- February 20 – Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov, Russian author (born 1882)
- March 3 – T. H. Parry-Williams, Welsh poet (born 1887)[12]
- March 7 – Kate Seredy, Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1899)
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1892)
- April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, German poet (killed in hit-and-run-accident in London, born 1940)
- May 21 – A. H. Dodd, Welsh historian (born 1891)
- June 8 – Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), American science fiction writer (born 1896)
- July 10 – Peter Frederick Anson, English writer on religion and maritime matters (born 1889)
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger), French poet and Nobel laureate (born 1887)
- October 5 – Lady Constance Malleson, Irish actress and writer (born 1895)
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (born 1889)
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English dramatist and novelist (born 1896)
- November 19 – Elizabeth Taylor, English novelist (cancer, born 1912)
- November 25 – Edward Hyams, English historian and novelist (born 1910)
- November 27 – Ross McWhirter, English sports journalist and joint compiler of Guinness Book of Records (assassinated, born 1925)[13]
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher (born 1906)
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and dramatist (born 1897)
United Kingdom[edit]
- Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners
- Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond
- Duff Cooper Prize: Seamus Heaney, North
- 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
United States[edit]
Elsewhere[edit]
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