1975 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
- Campus Verlag is founded in Frankfurt am Main as a publishing house for critical social sciences .
Literary prizes
- Joe Haldeman , The Forever War , The Eternal War , Category: Best Novel
- Roger Zelazny , Home Is the Hangman , The hangman has returned home , also: Home is the hangman , Category: Best short novel
- Tom Reamy , San Diego Lightfoot Sue , San Diego Lightfoot Sue , Category: Best Narration
- Fritz Leiber , Catch That Zeppelin! ' Don't miss the zeppelin! , Category: Best Short Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin , The Dispossessed , Planet of the Have-nots , also: The Dispossessed , Category: Best Novel
- George RR Martin , A Song for Lya , Farewell to Lya , Category: Best Short Novel
- Harlan Ellison , Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 ° 54 'N, Longitude 77 ° 00' 13 W , helplessly exposed to wind and waves , Category: Best story
- Larry Niven , The Hole Man , Free Fall Through Mars , Category: Best Short Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed , Planet of the Have-nots , also: The Dispossessed , Category: Best Novel
- Robert Silverberg , Born with the Dead , Born with the dead , Category: Best Short Novel
- Harlan Ellison, Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38 ° 54 'N, Longitude 77 ° 00' 13 W , helplessly exposed to wind and waves , Category: Best story
- Harlan Ellison, Jeffty Is Five , Jeffty Is Five , Category: Best Short Story
- Fritz Leiber, The Best of Fritz Leiber , The best stories from Fritz Leiber , Best collection
New releases
Fiction
- Salem has to burn - Stephen King
- Grimus - Salman Rushdie
- A chapter of its own - Walter Kempowski
- Correction - Thomas Bernhard
- The Girls' War - Manfred Bieler
- Ragtime - EL Doctorow
- The shock wave rider - John Brunner
- Shogun - James Clavell
- Our Lady of Carnival - Gertrud von le Fort
- The fall of the city of Passau - Carl Amery
- The cause. A hint - Thomas Bernhard
- Election campaign in Caribbean - VS Naipaul
Poetry
- If I were God (OA) - Astrid Lindgren
Children's books
- You don't see ghosts - Ingrid Bachér (text) and Gottfried Wiegand (illustrations)
- The language craft book - numerous authors
Born
- January 13: Daniel Kehlmann , German-Austrian writer
- January 27: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , German writer
- February 9: Güner Yasemin Balcı , German editor and writer
- March 12th: Zoë Beck , German writer, publisher and translator
- May 4th: Alexander Wichert , German writer
- May 25: Claire Castillon , French writer
- June 22: Keiichirō Hirano , Japanese writer
- June 27: Teju Cole , Nigerian-American writer
- July 3: Matt Haig , British writer
- July 31: Sayed Kashua , Israeli writer and journalist of Arab origin
- August 3: Stanisław Strasburger , Polish (-German) writer
- August 11th: Flavio Soriga , Italian writer and journalist
- September 2nd: Alexandre Lacroix , French writer, essayist and journalist
- September 30: Jay Asher , American writer for young people
- November 4: Marcus Brühl , German poet and prose author († 2015)
- December 21: Romain Puértolas , French writer
Exact date unknown
- Daniel Åberg , Swedish writer, blogger, culture and technology journalist
- İhsan Acar , Turkish author
- Svenja Flaßpöhler , German philosopher and author
- Mirjam H. Hüberli , Swiss writer
- Petra Piuk , Austrian writer
- Ulrike Schrimpf , German literary scholar and writer
Died
- January 3: Robert Neumann , Austro-British writer and publicist
- January 4th: Carlo Levi , Italian writer
- January 7th: Fritz Erpenbeck , German writer and publicist
- January 21: Mascha Kaléko , German-speaking poet
- February 10: Nikos Kavvadias , Greek poet
- February 14th: PG Wodehouse , British writer
- February 20: Kurt Batt , German literary scholar, critic and editor
- March 13: Ivo Andrić , Yugoslav writer
- March 30th: Peter Bamm , German writer
- April 17th: S. Radhakrishnan , Indian religious philosopher
- April 21: Melchior Vischer , German writer
- April 23: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , German poet and narrator
- June 12: Alfred Kurella , German writer and cultural functionary
- June 17: Max Barthel , German writer
- June 22nd: Per Wahlöö , Swedish writer
- July 11: Kurt Pinthus , German writer
- July 17: Konstantine Gamsachurdia , Georgian writer
- July 29: James Blish , American science fiction writer
- September 20: Saint-John Perse , French poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature
- September 24th: Elisabeth Castonier , German writer
- October 22: Arnold J. Toynbee , British cultural theorist and philosopher of history
- November 2nd: Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian writer and poet
- November 5: Lionel Trilling , American literary critic and writer
- December 7th: Thornton Wilder , American writer
- November 13th: Gretl Zottmann , German writer and poet
