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The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • August 12 — with the 20-year time limit stipulated by Thomas Mann at his death having expired, sealed packets containing 32 of the author's notebooks were opened in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Writing under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar", author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.
  • Hearing Secret Harmonies, the twelfth and final novel of the A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.
  • Milan Kundera emigrated to France.
  • Petrarca-Preis was founded by Hubert Burda.

Books[]

Fiction[]

  • Edward Abbey - The Monkey Wrench Gang
  • Martin Amis - Dead Babies
  • Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
  • Donald Barthelme - The Dead Father
  • Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
  • Thomas Berger - Sneaky People
  • Timothy L. Bottoms - Mr. Schutzer
  • Jorge Luis Borges - The Book of Sand
  • Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man
  • Morley Callaghan - A Fine and Private Place
  • Agatha Christie - Curtain
  • James Clavell - Shōgun
  • Susan Cooper - The Grey King
  • Michael Crichton - The Great Train Robbery
  • A. J. Cronin - The Minstrel Boy
  • Roald Dahl - Danny, the Champion of the World
  • Robertson Davies - World of Wonders
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Compleat Enchanter
  • Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren
  • August Derleth - Harrigan's File
  • E. L. Doctorow - Ragtime
  • William Gaddis - J R
  • Gabriel García Márquez - El Otoño del Patriarca (The Autumn of the Patriarch)
  • Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - La vie devant soi
  • Arthur Hailey - The Moneychangers
  • Thomas Harris - Black Sunday
  • Georgette Heyer - My Lord John
  • Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust
  • Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
  • J. Sheridan LeFanu - The Purcell Papers
  • David Lodge - Changing Places
  • Robert Ludlum - The Road to Gandolfo
  • John D. MacDonald - The Dreadful Lemon Sky
  • Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
  • Gary Myers - The House of the Worm
  • V.S. Naipaul - Guerillas
  • Tim O'Brien - Northern Lights
  • Gerald W. Page, editor - Nameless Places
  • Robert B. Parker - Mortal Stakes
  • Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank (the first in the Amelia Peabody series)
  • Anthony Powell - Hearing Secret Harmonies
  • James Purdy - In A Shallow Grave
  • Judith Rossner - Looking for Mister Goodbar
  • Nawal El Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero
  • Paul Scott - A Division of the Spoils
  • Anya Seton - Smouldering Fires
  • Tom Sharpe - Blott on the Landscape
  • Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (individual editions)
  • M. P. Shiel - Xélucha and Others
  • Rex Stout - A Family Affair
  • Glendon Swarthout - The Shootist
  • Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys
  • Jack Vance - Showboat World
  • Roger Zelazny - Sign of the Unicorn

Poetry[]

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  • Lin Carter - Dreams from R'lyeh
  • Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies

Non-fiction[]

  • Philip Agee - Inside the Company: CIA Diary
  • Kingsley Amis - Rudyard Kipling and His World
  • Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
  • L. Sprague de Camp
    • Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages
    • Lovecraft: a Biography
    • The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard
  • Paul Fussell - The Great War and Modern Memory
  • Frank Belknap Long - Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nitghtside
  • Philip Roth - Reading Myself and Others
  • Paul Theroux - The Great Railway Bazaar

Births[]

  • January 13 - Daniel Kehlmann, novelist
  • October 27 - Zadie Smith, novelist

Deaths[]

  • January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
  • February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b.1881), English comic novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster
  • February 14 - Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley
  • March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b.1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
  • June 8 - Murray Leinster, science fiction writer
  • September 20 - Saint-John Perse, poet - winner, 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature
  • October 5 - Constance Malleson, actress and writer
  • October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
  • November 13 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
  • November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor, novelist
  • November 23 - Francis Webb, poet
  • November 27 - Ross McWhirter, joint author of the Guinness Book of Records
  • December 4 - Hannah Arendt, philosopher
  • December 7 - Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist
  • date unknown - Janko Glazer, (b.1893) - poet
  • date unknown - Vojko Gorjan, (b.1949) - poet

Awards[]

Canada[]

  • See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - La vie devant soi
  • Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis
  • Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse - United States

Spain[]

  • Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, Las ninfas

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale

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