1975 in literature

See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature.

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