1995 in literature

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

Awards

• Booker Prize: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
• Carnegie Medal: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Robert Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney
• Prix Goncourt: Andreï Makine, Le Testament français
• Prix Décembre: Jean Échenoz, Les Grandes Blondes
• Prix Médicis French: Vassilis Alexakis, La Langue maternelle and Andreï Makine, Le testament français
• Prix Médicis International: Alessandro Baricco, Les châteaux de la colère
• 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
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum