1975 in literature
See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- 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.
- Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow is published.
New books
- The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
- Black Sunday - Thomas Harris
- The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh
- Curtain - Agatha Christie
- Dead Babies - Martin Amis
- Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany
- The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
- A Fine and Private Place - Morley Callaghan
- The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
- Hang That Nigger - Arthur Robinson
- Hearing Secret Harmonies - Anthony Powell
- Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury
- Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
- In A Shallow Grave - James Purdy
- Inside the Company: CIA Diary - Philip Agee
- Looking for Mister Goodbar - Judith Rossner
- Mr. Schutzer - Timothy L. Bottoms
- The Moneychangers - Arthur Hailey
- My Lord John – Georgette Heyer
- Northern Lights - Tim O'Brien
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- The Road to Gandolfo - Robert Ludlum
- Rudyard Kipling and His World - Kingsley Amis
- 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
- Shogun - James Clavell
- La vie devant soi - Romain Gary as Emile Ajar
- Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
- World of Wonders - Robertson Davies
Births
- 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
- 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
- Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Heat and Dust
- See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
- 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
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Seascape
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
- Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale