1965 in literature
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See also: 1964 in literature, other events of 1965, 1966 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- Frank Herbert's Dune wins the first ever Nebula Award
- The Magus - John Fowles is published.
New books
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley & Malcolm X
- The British Museum Is Falling Down - David Lodge
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Georgy Girl - Margaret Forster
- The Green Berets - Robin Moore
- Hotel - Arthur Hailey
- The Looking-Glass War - John le Carré
- The Magus - John Fowles
- The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
- Markings - Dag Hammarskjöld
- Morning's at Seven - Eric Malpass
- The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
- The Source - James A. Michener
- Those Who Love - Irving Stone
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
- Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
New drama
- Samuel Beckett - Come and Go
- Edward Bond - Saved
- John Osborne - A Patriot for Me
- Michel Tremblay - Les Belles-Sœurs
Births
- March 4 - Andrew Collins, journalist and scriptwriter
- March 30 - Piers Morgan, controversial journalist and editor
- July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author
- October 23 - Augusten Burroughs, memoirist
- November 11 - Thomas K. Ward, software project manager
- December 31 - Nicholas Sparks, novelist
- date unknown - Patience Agbabi, performance poet
- date unknown - Thomas Brussig, novelist
Deaths
- January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
- January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
- May 3 - Howard Spring, novelist
- June 5 - Thornton Burgess, children's author
- July 9 - Jacques Audiberti
- August 17 - Jack Spicer, poet
- October 8 - Thomas B. Costain, popular historian
- October 15 - Randall Jarrell, poet
- November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen, journalist
- November 20 - Katharine Anthony, biographer
- December 16 - William Somerset Maugham
Awards
- See 1965 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
- Nebula Award: Frank Herbert, Dune
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
- Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
- Prix Goncourt: J. Borel, L'Adoration
- Prix Médicis: René-Victor Pilhes, La Rhubarbe
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers Of The House
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
- Viareggio Prize: Goffredo Parise, Il Padrone (The Boss)
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