1995 in literature

• January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete Blasted at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage.[1]
• February 28 – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first appears in The Independent newspaper (London).[2]
• March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter.[3]
• April 23 – World Book Day is first celebrated.
• July 16 – Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book: Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.[4][5]
• August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing.[6]
• December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson.

Uncertain dates

• Simon & Schuster pays US$4.2 million for hardcover publishing rights to The Christmas Box, self-published by Richard Paul Evans, which has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.[7]
• Fjærland in Norway becomes a book town.[8]

• Sense and Sensibility

• June 7 - Beth Reekles, Welsh author of young adult fiction
• June 13 - S. C. Megale, American novelist and screenwriter

• January 9 – Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)[13]
• January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)[14]
• January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)[15]
• February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)[16]
• February 6
  • James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)[17]
  • Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)[18]
• February 21
  • Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)[19]
  • Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
• February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)[20]
• March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916)[21]
• March 20 – Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (born 1906)[22]
• April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)[23]
• April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)[24]
• May 30 or May 31 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897)
• June 14 – Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937)[25]
• June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (born 1899)[26]
• June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
• June 21– Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914)
• June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
• July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)[27]
• July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (born 1908)[28]
• July 16
  • May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
  • Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)[29]
• July 25 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
• August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
• August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born 1901)[30]
• August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
• August 29 – Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)[31]
• September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (born 1920)[32]
• October 13 – Henry Roth, Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906)
• October 22 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist (born 1922)[33]
• October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)[34]
• November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)[35]
• November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer (executed, born 1941)
• November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (born 1911)
• November 16 – Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (born 1919)
• November 17 – Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (born 1908)
• November 20 – Robie Macauley, American writer and literary critic (born 1919)[36]
• November 22 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (born 1911)[37]
• December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born 1913)[38]
• December 9 – Toni Cade Bambara, American writer (born 1939)
• December 30 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (born 1929)[39]

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney
• Camões Prize: José Saramago

• Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.