Editing 1975 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1975'''.
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==Events==
*[[January 1]] – English-born comic writer [[P. G. Wodehouse]] is awarded a [[knight]]hood,<ref>[[Knight Commander]] of the Most Excellent [[Order of the British Empire]]. {{London Gazette |issue=46444 |page=8 |date=1974-12-31 |supp=y}}</ref> six weeks before he dies in the United States.
*January – [[Colin Dexter]]'s detective novel ''[[Last Bus to Woodstock]]'' introduces his Oxford police officer, [[Inspector Morse]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robin W. Winks|author2=Maureen Corrigan|title=Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3SnIItDKh8C|year=1998|publisher=Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80519-1|page=292}}</ref>
*[[April 23]]
**[[Barbara Pym]] and [[Philip Larkin]] meet in person for the first time, at the [[Randolph Hotel, Oxford]], after years of correspondence.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Dale Salwak |title=Philip Larkin: The Man and his Work |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u3mwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |date=18 June 1989 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-09700-5 |pages=59–}}</ref>
**[[Harold Pinter]]'s play ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]'' is premièred by the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] at [[The Old Vic]] in London, directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]] and starring Sir [[John Gielgud]] and Sir [[Ralph Richardson]].<ref>{{cite book|author=William Baker|title=Harold Pinter|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2008|isbn=9780826499714|page=84}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Harold Pinter]] leaves his first wife, the actress [[Vivien Merchant]], having begun an affair with the married biographer Lady [[Antonia Fraser]] on [[January 8]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Billington|year=1996|title=The Life and Work of Harold Pinter|page=253|publisher=Faber and Faber}} {{ISBN|0571171036}}</ref>
*[[May 10]] – Leftist [[Salvadoran literature|Salvadoran]] poet, journalist and political activist [[Roque Dalton]] (born [[1935 in literature|1935]]) is assassinated by former colleagues in the [[People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador)]].
*[[August 12]] – As the 20-year time limit stipulated by [[Thomas Mann]] at his death expires, sealed packets of 32 of the author's notebooks are opened in [[Zürich]], Switzerland.
*''unknown dates''
**Writing as [[Émile Ajar]], the author [[Romain Gary]] becomes the only person to win the [[Prix Goncourt]] twice.<ref name="Ruthven2001">{{cite book|author=K. K. Ruthven|title=Faking Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70QxwcZTN3kC&pg=PA110|date=30 April 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-66965-8|pages=110}}</ref>
**Radical Australian poet [[Dorothy Hewett]] publishes her collection ''Rapunzel in Suburbia'', triggering a successful [[libel]] action by her ex-husband.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Dimond, J. |author2=Kirkpatrick, P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLkHvBvATW0C&pg=PA130 |title=Literary Sydney: A walking guide|publisher=University of Queensland Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7022-3150-6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s659224.htm |title=Dorothy Hewett passes away |publisher=ABC radio (PM) |date=2002-08-26}}</ref>
**''[[Hearing Secret Harmonies]]'', the twelfth and final novel in the ''[[A Dance to the Music of Time]]'' series begun in [[1951 in literature|1951]] by [[Anthony Powell]], is published.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bart Moore-Gilbert|title=The Arts in the 1970s: Cultural Closure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNZm8oNDSQYC&pg=PT172|date=1 February 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-85837-8|pages=172}}</ref>
**The French critic [[Hélène Cixous]] coins the term ''[[Écriture féminine]]'' in an article, "Le Rire de la méduse".<ref>{{Cite journal |title=The Laugh of the Medusa |url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:2ejPblYQ8IcJ:www.dwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/e321/Cixous-Laugh.pdf+%22laugh+of+the+medusa%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj4eAASbB4kJn89mWZNdze7a5GTBQtSAVzgJenWQKFPFOQr2XC0mxOSmiboiNN928ynkRGZNGf_85hzF4o8YDEtBzkMmTXZo7Xusj6WBzzszBF8Ufwe4g4JJF0PsXPkii9Oa10l&sig=AHIEtbTu7rPsB-ocVIXGsrIiVQBUTmKACQ |journal=[[Signs (journal) |Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society]] |volume=1 |issue=4 |year=1976 |pages=875–93}}</ref>
**[[Milan Kundera]] emigrates from [[Czechoslovakia]] to France, to take up an academic position at the [[University of Rennes]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Riggs|title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KxaAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-222-7|page=356}}</ref>
**The [[Petrarca-Preis]] is founded by [[Hubert Burda]].

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Chabua Amirejibi]] – ''[[Data Tutashkhia]]''
*[[Edward Abbey]] – ''[[The Monkey Wrench Gang]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=A Study Guide for Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang"|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=9781410352897|year=2016|page=1}}</ref>
*[[Dritëro Agolli]] – ''Njeriu me top (The Man with the Cannon)''<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the Novel|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2014|isbn=9781135918262|page=1254}}</ref>
*[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[Dead Babies (novel)|Dead Babies]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Bentley|title=Martin Amis|publisher=Northcote|year=2015|isbn=9780746311783|page=21}}</ref>
*[[Natalie Babbitt]] – '' [[Tuck Everlasting]]''
*[[J. G. Ballard]] – ''[[High-Rise (novel)|High-Rise]]''<ref>{{cite book|author1=J. G. Ballard|author2=James Goddard|title=J. G. Ballard, the First Twenty Years|publisher=Bran's Head Books Limited|year=1976|ISBN=9780905220031|page=89}}</ref>
*[[Donald Barthelme]] – ''[[The Dead Father]]''
*[[Saul Bellow]] – ''[[Humboldt's Gift]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Clayton|title=The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|isbn=9780195359299|page=3}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Bernhard]] – ''[[Correction (novel)|Correction]] (Korrektur)''<ref>{{cite book|title=International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice|editor1=Douwe Wessel Fokkema|editor2=Johannes Willem Bertens|publisher=J. Benjamins|year=1997|isbn=9789027234452|pages=266-7}}</ref>
*[[Jorge Luis Borges]] – ''[[The Book of Sand (book)|The Book of Sand]]'' (''[[El libro de arena]]'', short stories)
*[[Malcolm Bradbury]] – ''[[The History Man]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=[[David Lodge (author)|Lodge, David]]|year=1992|pages=117–120|title=The Art of Fiction|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]]}}</ref>
*[[John Braine]] – ''[[The Pious Agent]]''
*[[Charles Bukowski]] – ''[[Factotum (novel)|Factotum]]''
*[[Morley Callaghan]] – ''[[A Fine and Private Place]]''
*[[J. L. Carr]] – ''[[How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Curtain (novel)|Curtain: Poirot's last case]]'' (written in 1940s)
*[[James Clavell]] – ''[[Shōgun (novel)|Shōgun]]''
*[[Michael Crichton]] – ''[[The Great Train Robbery (novel)|The Great Train Robbery]]''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lehmann-Haupt|first1=Christopher|title=Books of The Times: A Flash Pull for a Fat Pogue|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/28/archives/director-michael-crichton-films-a-favorite-novelist.html|work=New York Times|date=June 10, 1975|page=36}}</ref>
*[[A. J. Cronin]] – ''[[The Minstrel Boy]]''
*[[Robertson Davies]] – ''[[World of Wonders (novel)|World of Wonders]]''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Fletcher Pratt]] – ''[[The Compleat Enchanter]]''
*[[Samuel R. Delany]] – ''[[Dhalgren]]''
*[[Michel Déon]] – ''[[The Foundling Boy]] (Le Jeune Homme vert)''
*[[August Derleth]] – ''[[Harrigan's File]]''
*[[Guram Dochanashvili]] – ''[[The First Garment]]''
*[[E. L. Doctorow]] – ''[[Ragtime (novel)|Ragtime]]''
*[[Max Frisch]] – ''[[Montauk (novel)|Montauk]]''
*[[Carlos Fuentes]] – ''[[Terra Nostra (novel)|Terra Nostra]]''
*[[William Gaddis]] – ''[[J R]]''
*[[Gabriel García Márquez]] – ''[[The Autumn of the Patriarch]] ([[El Otoño del Patriarca]])''
*[[Romain Gary]] as Émile Ajar – ''[[The Life Before Us]] ([[La vie devant soi]])''
*[[Jon Godden]] – ''Ahmed and the Old Lady''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''The Peacock Spring''
*[[Arthur Hailey]] – ''[[The Moneychangers]]''
*[[Peter Handke]] – ''[[A Moment of True Feeling]] (Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung)''
*[[Thomas Harris]] – ''[[Black Sunday (novel)|Black Sunday]]''
*[[Xavier Herbert]] – ''[[Poor Fellow My Country]]''
*[[Georgette Heyer]] – ''[[My Lord John]]''
*[[Jack Higgins]] – ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]''
*[[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] – ''[[Heat and Dust]]''
*[[Gayl Jones]] – ''[[Gayl Jones#Corregidora|Corregidora]]''
*[[Stephen King]] – ''[[Salem's Lot]]''
*[[Sheridan Le Fanu]] (died [[1873 in literature|1873]]) – ''[[The Purcell Papers]]''
*[[Derek Lambert (author)|Derek Lambert]] – ''[[Touch the Lion's Paw]]''
*[[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]] – ''[[Changing Places]]''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Road to Gandolfo]]''
*[[John D. MacDonald]] – ''[[The Dreadful Lemon Sky]]''
*[[Bharati Mukherjee]] – ''[[Wife (novel)|Wife]]''
*[[Abdul Rahman Munif]] – ''[[East of the Mediterranean]]''
*[[Gary Myers (writer)|Gary Myers]] – ''[[The House of the Worm]]''
*[[V. S. Naipaul]] – ''[[Guerrillas (novel)|Guerrillas]]''
*[[N. Richard Nash]] - ''[[Cry Macho]]''
*[[Tim O'Brien (author)|Tim O'Brien]] – ''Northern Lights''
*[[Gerald W. Page]], editor – ''[[Nameless Places]]''
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[Mortal Stakes]]''
*[[Georges Perec]] – ''[[W, or the Memory of Childhood]] (W, ou le Souvenir d'enfance)''
*[[Elizabeth Peters]] – ''[[Crocodile on the Sandbank]]'' (first in the [[Amelia Peabody series]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xwtkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5998,1202352&dq=crocodile-on-the-sandbank&hl=en |title=In Lighter Vein |first=Marie |last=Knuckey |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=2 July 1978 |access-date=9 March 2012}}</ref>
*[[Baltasar Porcel]] – ''Horses into the Night (Cavalls cap a la fosca)''
*[[Anthony Powell]] – ''[[Hearing Secret Harmonies]]''
*[[James Purdy]] – ''In a Shallow Grave''
*[[Judith Rossner]] – ''[[Looking for Mr. Goodbar (novel)|Looking for Mr. Goodbar]]''
*[[Joanna Russ]] – ''[[The Female Man]]''
*[[Nawal El Saadawi]] – ''[[Woman at Point Zero]] (Emra'a Enda Noktat el Sifr)''<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Literary Criticism|publisher=Gale|year=2005|page=131}}</ref>
*[[James Salter]] – ''[[Light Years (novel)|Light Years]]''
*[[Paul Scott (novelist)|Paul Scott]] – ''[[A Division of the Spoils]]''
*[[Anya Seton]] – ''[[Smouldering Fires (novel)|Smouldering Fires]]''
*[[Gerald Seymour]] – ''[[Harry's Game]]''<ref>{{cite journal|journal=ThirdWay|title=Films and the Troubles|author=Steve Greenhill|issue=July 1988|page=18}}</ref>
*[[Tom Sharpe]] – ''[[Blott on the Landscape]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-dies|title=Tom Sharpe obituary|date=6 June 2013|author=Stanley Reynolds|website=The Guardian|access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref>
*[[Robert Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]] – ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' (individual editions)
*[[M. P. Shiel]] – ''[[Xélucha and Others]]''
*[[Rex Stout]] – ''[[A Family Affair (novel)|A Family Affair]]''
*[[Glendon Swarthout]] – ''[[The Shootist]]''
*[[Julian Symons]] – ''[[A Three-Pipe Problem]]''
*[[Joseph Wambaugh]] – ''[[The Choirboys (novel)|The Choirboys]]''
*[[Keith Waterhouse]] – ''[[Billy Liar on the Moon]]''
*[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[Showboat World]]''
*[[Georgi Vladimov]] – ''[[Faithful Ruslan|Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog]]'' («Верный Руслан. История караульной собаки», first trade publication)<ref>{{cite book|title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|year=1998|isbn=9781884964107|page=878}}</ref>
*[[Roger Zelazny]] – ''[[Sign of the Unicorn]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Verna Aardema]] (with [[Leo and Diane Dillon]]) – ''[[Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears]]''
*[[Nina Bawden]] – ''The Peppermint Pig''
*[[Susan Cooper]] – ''[[The Grey King]]''
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[Danny, the Champion of the World]]''
*[[Rumer Godden]] – ''Mr. McFadden's Hallowe'en''
*[[Peter Härtling]] – ''Oma'' (Grandma)<ref>{{cite book|title=Bookbird, volumes 14-15|author=International Board on Books for Young People|publisher=One Man Edition|year=1976|pages=45-46}}</ref>
*[[Eva Ibbotson]] – ''[[The Great Ghost Rescue]]''
*[[E. L. Konigsburg]] - ''[[The Second Mrs. Gioconda]]''
*[[Ronald McCuaig]] – ''Fresi Fantastika'' (Norwegian translation of ''Gangles'')
*[[Ruth Park]] – ''The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Invention''
*[[Robert Westall]] – ''[[The Machine Gunners]]''
*[[Mercer Mayer]] – Just for You (first in the ''[[Little Critter]]'' series)

===Drama===
*[[Alan Ayckbourn]] – ''[[Bedroom Farce (play)|Bedroom Farce]]''
*[[Thomas Bernhard]] – ''[[The President (play)|Der Präsident]]''
*[[Patrick Galvin]] – ''We Do It For Love''
*[[Trevor Griffiths]] – ''[[Comedians (play)|Comedians]]''
*[[Christopher Hampton]] – ''[[Treats (play)|Treats]]''
*[[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
**''Fanshen''
**''[[Teeth 'n' Smiles]]''
*[[Colin Higgins]] and [[Denis Cannan]] with [[Peter Brook]] – ''[[The Ik]]''
*[[Franz Xaver Kroetz]]
**''Geisterbahn'' (Ghost Train)
**''Das Nest'' (The Nest)
*[[Tom Murphy (playwright)|Tom Murphy]] – ''[[The Sanctuary Lamp]]''
*[[Stewart Parker]] – ''Spokesong''
*[[Harold Pinter]] – ''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]''
*[[Wole Soyinka]] – ''[[Death and the King's Horseman]]''
*[[Ben Travers]] – ''The Bed Before Yesterday''
*[[Charles Wood (playwright)|Charles Wood]] – ''Jingo''

===Poetry===
{{Main article|1975 in poetry}}
*[[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''
*[[Robert Bresson]] – ''[[Notes on the Cinematographer]] (Notes sur le cinématographe)''
*[[Jacob Bronowski]] – ''[[The Ascent of Man]]''
*[[Mary Chamberlain]] – ''Fenwomen: a portrait of women in an English village''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]]
**''[[Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages]]''
**''[[Lovecraft: A Biography]]''
**''[[The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard]]''
*S. M. Dubey – ''Social Mobility Among the Professions''
*[[Michel Foucault]] – ''[[Discipline and Punish|Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]] (Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison)''
*[[Paul Fussell]] – ''[[The Great War and Modern Memory]]''
*[[Paul Horgan]] – ''[[Lamy of Santa Fe]]''
*[[Frank Belknap Long]] – ''[[Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside]]''
*[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[Reading Myself and Others]]''
*[[Peter Singer]] – ''[[Animal Liberation (book)|Animal Liberation]]''
*[[Paul Theroux]] – ''[[The Great Railway Bazaar]]''

==Births==
*[[January 13]] – [[Daniel Kehlmann]], German novelist
*[[February 25]] – [[Carrie Mac]], Canadian young-adult fiction writer
*[[February 27]] – [[Cynan Jones]], Welsh novelist
*[[April 11]] – [[Walid Soliman (writer)|Walid Soliman]], Tunisian author and translator
*[[June 23]]
**[[Hugh Howey]], American science-fiction writer
**[[Markus Zusak]], Australian young-adult novelist
*[[July 19]] – [[Martina Montelius]], Swedish playwright
*[[August 20]] – [[Matthew Dickman|Matthew]] and [[Michael Dickman]], American poets
*[[October 13]] - Robin Parrish, American speculative fiction writer
*[[October 27]] – [[Zadie Smith]] (Sadie Smith), English novelist
*[[December 19]] – [[Brandon Sanderson]], American fiction writer
*''unknown dates''
**[[Gavin Francis]], Scottish medical writer and physician
**[[Shehan Karunatilaka]], Sri Lankan English-language novelist

==Deaths==
*[[January 15]] – [[Sydney Goodsir Smith]], Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist (heart attack; born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref name="DNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=58855|title=Smith, Sydney Goodsir}}</ref>
*[[February 14]]
**Sir [[Julian Huxley]], English biologist and author (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Addresses Delivered at a Memorial Ceremony for Julian Huxley Formerly Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1946-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3a_1Ahk010C|year=1975|publisher=Unesco House}}</ref>
**Sir [[P. G. Wodehouse]], English-born comic novelist (born [[1881 in literature|1881]])<ref>{{cite book | last = McCrum | first = Robert | author-link =Robert McCrum| title = Wodehouse: A Life | year = 2004 | location = London | publisher = Viking | isbn = 978-0-670-89692-9 |pages=415-417}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov]], Russian author (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])
*[[March 3]] – [[T. H. Parry-Williams]], Welsh poet (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.knowuk.co.uk |work=Who Was Who (subscription access)| date=January 2007| title=PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir Thomas (Herbert) (1887–1975) |publisher=A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd| access-date=2007-07-25}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – [[Kate Seredy]], Hungarian-born American children's writer and illustrator (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Moritz|title=Current biography yearbook: 1975|publisher=H.W. Weilson Company|year=1976|page=473}}</ref>
*[[March 13]] – [[Ivo Andrić]], Yugoslav novelist and Nobel laureate (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Hawkesworth| first = Celia | year = 1984 | title = Ivo Andrić: Bridge Between East and West | publisher = Athlone Press  | isbn = 978-1-84714-089-0  | page=30  }}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – [[Rolf Dieter Brinkmann]], German poet (killed in hit-and-run-accident in London, born [[1940 in poetry|1940]])
*[[May 21]] – [[A. H. Dodd]], Welsh historian (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association|year=1976|publisher=W. Pickering|page=137}}</ref>
*[[June 8]] – [[Murray Leinster]] (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), American science fiction writer (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[July 10]] – [[Peter Anson|Peter Frederick Anson]], English writer on religion and maritime matters (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Saint-John Perse]] (Alexis Leger), French poet and Nobel laureate (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
*[[October 5]] – [[Lady Constance Malleson]], Irish actress and writer (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[October 22]] – [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], English historian (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
*[[November 13]] – [[R. C. Sherriff]], English dramatist and novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Antiquaries Journal|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1976|title=Robert Cedric Sherriff |page=363}}</ref>
*[[November 19]] – [[Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)|Elizabeth Taylor]], English novelist (cancer; born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB| last1=Bailey| first1=Paul| authorlink=Paul Bailey (British writer)| Paul Bailey| title=Taylor, Elizabeth (1912–1975)| accessdate=23 October 2017| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39186 |date=2004}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[Edward Hyams]], English historian and novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[November 27]] – [[Ross McWhirter]], English sports journalist and joint compiler of ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' (assassinated, born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref name="NorrisObWash">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29395-2004Apr20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522215456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29395-2004Apr20/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-05-22|title=Norris McWhirter Dies; 'Guinness Book' Co-Founder|date=2004-04-21|access-date=2008-12-16|work=[[The Washington Post]]|first=Adam|last=Bernstein}}</ref>
*[[December 4]] – [[Hannah Arendt]], German-American philosopher (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[December 7]] – [[Thornton Wilder]], American novelist and dramatist (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Eugenio Montale]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1975 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1975/montale/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>

===Canada===
*See [[1975 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Romain Gary|Romain Gary as Emile Ajar]] – ''[[La vie devant soi]]''<ref name="Ruthven2001"/>
*[[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===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]], ''[[Heat and Dust]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|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 (poetry collection)|''North'']]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[John Birtwhistle]], [[Duncan Bush]], [[Val Warner]], [[Philip Holmes (poet)|Philip Holmes]], [[Peter Cash (poet)|Peter Cash]], [[Alasdair Paterson]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Brian Moore (novelist)|Brian Moore]], ''The Great Victorian Collection''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Karl Miller]], ''Cockburn's Millennium''

===United States===
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Belles lettres, criticism, essays|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres]]: [[Kenneth Burke]]
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Joe Haldeman]], ''[[The Forever War]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Virginia Hamilton]], ''[[M. C. Higgins, the Great]]''
*[[Newdigate Prize]]: [[Andrew Motion]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Edward Albee]], ''[[Seascape (play)|Seascape]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Michael Shaara]] – ''[[The Killer Angels]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Gary Snyder]] – ''[[Turtle Island (poetry book)|Turtle Island]]''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Xavier Herbert]], ''[[Poor Fellow My Country]]''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Paolo Volponi]], ''Il sipario ducale''

==References==
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