1985 in literature
See also: 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature.
Awards
- Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
- See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon
- Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffelec, Les Noces barbares
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, Naissance d'une passion
- Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, God Knows
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, Elegies
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