1955 in literature

January 11 – Max Lucado, American religious writer
January 12 – Rockne S. O'Bannon, American writer and producer
January 13 – Jay McInerney, American novelist
January 27 – Alexander Stuart, English-born American novelist and screenwriter
February 2 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, fiction writer and translator
February 8 – John Grisham, American novelist
February 17 – Mo Yan, Chinese fiction writer
March 19 – John Burnside, Scottish poet and fiction writer
March 23 – Lloyd Jones, New Zealand novelist
April 8 – Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist, essayist and poet
May 30 – Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist, playwright and poet
June 4 – Val McDermid, Scottish crime novelist
June 16 – J. Jill Robinson, Canadian fiction writer
June 20 – Tor Nørretranders, Danish science author
July 1 – Lisa Scottoline, American writer of legal thrillers
July 5 – Mia Couto (António Emílio Leite Couto), Mozambican writer
July 6
- Michael Boyd, British theatre director
- William Wall, Irish author and poet
August 2 – Caleb Carr, American writer
August 7 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
September 6 – Raymond Benson, American novelist
September 13 – Hiromi Itō (伊藤比呂美), Japanese poet, essayist and translator
October 19 – Jason Shinder, American poet and editor (died 2008)
November 12 – Katharine Weber, American author and academic
November 23 – Steven Brust, American fantasy author
December 28 – Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), Chinese critic, writer and activist
Unknown date – Wang Xiaoni (王小妮), Chinese poet

Deaths

January 20 – Robert P. Tristram Coffin, American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1892)
February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist and diplomat (born 1868)
April 10 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher and essayist (born 1881)
May 16 – James Agee, American writer (born 1909)
June 6 – Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, English crime writer (born 1883)
June 17 – Constance Holme, English novelist and dramatist (born 1880)
June 19 – Adrienne Monnier, French poet and publisher (born 1892)
June 21 – Roger Mais, Jamaican novelist (born 1905)
July 3 – Beatrice Chase, English writer (born 1874)
August 1 – Charles Shaw, Australian writer (born 1900)
August 2 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (born 1879)
August 12 – Thomas Mann, German novelist (born 1875)
August 14 – Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress (born 1861)
August 29 – Hong Shen (洪深), Chinese dramatist (born 1894)
September 20 – Robert Riskin, American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1897)
October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (born 1883)
November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer (born 1888)
November 12 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (born 1891)
November 14 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (born 1896)
December – Al. T. Stamatiad, Romanian poet (born 1885)

Awards

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom
Frost Medal: Leona Speyer
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School
Nobel Prize for Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Premio Nadal: Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, El Jarama
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Faulkner, A Fable
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ruth Pitter

In literature

Ian McEwan's novel The Innocent (1990)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward (1967)
Colin Wilson's novel Adrift in Soho (1961)
Richard Yates's novel Revolutionary Road (1961)

References

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