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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 28 – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first appears in The Independent newspaper (London).<ref name="Pocket On This Day">Template:Cite book</ref>
March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson.

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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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Fjærland in Norway becomes a book town.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

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
Richard Hoffman – Half the House: A Memoir
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
Ibn Warraq – Why I Am Not a Muslim
Jane Wesman – Dive Right In: The Sharks Won't Bite<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Jane Wilson-Howarth – Bugs, Bites & Bowels (later editions as The Essential Guide to Travel Health)

Films

Sense and Sensibility

Births

June 7 - Beth Reekles, Welsh author of young adult fiction
June 13 - S. C. Megale, American novelist and screenwriter

Deaths

January 9 – Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Cbignore</ref>
February 6
- James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)<ref>Template:Cite work</ref>
- Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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February 14 – Mary Paik Lee, Korean-American writer (born 1900)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 20 – Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Cbignore</ref>
February 21 – Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)<ref>Template:Cite work</ref>
March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
March 20 – Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (born 1906)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)<ref>Otterspeer, Willem (in Dutch) (2013). De mislukkingskunstenaar: Willem Frederik Hermans. Biografie, deel 1 (1921–1952), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam. [The Artist of Failure: Willem Frederik Hermans. A Biography, Vol. 1, (1921–1952)]</ref>
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)<ref>"...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6, by Christopher S. Kovacs. In: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 6: The Road to Amber, NESFA Press, 2009.</ref>
June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (born 1899)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
June 21– Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914)
June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (born 1908)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 16
- May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
- Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 25 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born 1901)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
August 29 – Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation