1965 in literature - Definition and Overview

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
• 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

The Importance of Being Ernest Oscar Wilde

Births

• July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author

Deaths

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
• January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
• 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)