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See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards

Events

• Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft[?] - Rice & Zelikow[?]
• Simon & Schuster[?] paid US$4.2 million for the hardcover publishing rights for The Christmas Box[?] by Richard Paul Evans[?] after the self-published book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

New Books

• The Apocalypse Watch[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Blood Sport[?] - James B. Stewart[?]
• The Celestine Prophecy[?] - James Redfield[?]
• The First Man[?] (Le premier homme) - Albert Camus
• Five Days In Paris[?] - Danielle Steel
• The Horse Whisperer[?] - Nicholas Evans[?]
• Independence Day - Richard Ford
• The Island of the Day Before[?] - Umberto Eco
• Landscape and Memory[?] - Simon Schama[?]
• Man Ray, 1890-1976[?] - Man Ray, Andre Breton
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus[?] - John Gray[?] *The Lost World - Michael Crichton
• Miracle in Seville[?] - James A. Michener
• Morning, Noon, & Night[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• Our Game[?] - John le Carré
• The Rainmaker - John Grisham
• Rose Madder[?] - Stephen King
• Silent Night[?] - Mary Higgins Clark[?]
• The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle

Births

Deaths

• January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
• January 31 - George Abbott, writer, director, producer
• February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, author
• February 12 - Robert Bolt, writer
• February 21 - Calder Willingham[?], writer
• December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist

Awards

• Booker Prize: Pat Barker[?], The Ghost Road
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech[?], Walk Two Moons
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Horton Foote[?], The Young Man From Atlanta
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine[?], The Simple Truth