2025 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2025.
- 14 January – Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 18 January – Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 20 January – Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 20 January – Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 1 February – Alfred Grosser was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 4 February – Russell Hoban was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 6 February – Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 22 February – Edward Gorey was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 24 February – Etel Adnan was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 10 March – Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 12 March – Harry Harrison was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 21 March – Peter Brook was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 25 March – Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 11 May – Rubem Fonseca was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 27 May – Tony Hillerman was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 6 June – Thomas Mann was born in 1875 (150th Anniversary).
- 10 June – James Salter was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 30 June – Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 19 July – Jean-Pierre Faye was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 20 July – Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 26 July – Ana María Matute was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 1 August – Ernst Jandl was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 18 August – Brian Aldiss was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 25 August – Thea Astley was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 27 August – Saiichi Maruya was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 6 September – Andrea Camilleri was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 15 September – Giuseppe Fava was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 19 September – Tatsuhiro Ōshiro was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 24 September – Kunio Tsuji was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 3 October – Gore Vidal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 11 October – Elmore Leonard was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 13 October – Frank D. Gilroy was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 20 October – Art Buchwald was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 2 November – Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
- 14 November – Jean Paul died in 1825 (200th Anniversary).
- 4 December
- Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 (150th Anniversary).
- Hannah Arendt died in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
- 5 December – E. Marlitt was born in 1825 (200th Anniversary).
- 7 December – Thornton Wilder died in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
- 8 December – Carmen Martín Gaite was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 12 December – Ahmad Shamlou was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- 16 December – Jane Austen was born in 1775 (250th Anniversary).
- 19 December
- Tankred Dorst was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary).
- Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975 (50th Anniversary).
- 21 December – Giovanni Boccaccio died in 1375 (650th Anniversary).
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aria Aber | Good Girl | January 14 | [1] |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Dream Count | March 4 | [2] |
| Amal El-Mohtar | The River Has Roots | [3] | |
| David Szalay | Flesh | March 11 | [4] |
| Suzanne Collins | Sunrise on the Reaping | March 18 | [5] |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | Theft | [6] | |
| Ben Okri | Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted | [7] | |
| John Scalzi | When the Moon Hits Your Eye | March 25 | [8] |
| Lindsey Davis | There Will Be Bodies | April 3 | [9] |
| Katie Kitamura | Audition | April 8 | [10] |
| Isabel Allende | My Name Is Emilia del Valle | May 6 | [11] |
| Ocean Vuong | The Emperor of Gladness | May 13 | [12] |
| Jessie Elland | The Ladie Upstairs | May 22 | [13] |
| Stephen King | Never Flinch | May 27 | [14] |
| Katie Yee | Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar | July 22 | [15] |
| Ian McEwan | What We Can Know | September 18 | [16] |
| Lily King | Heart the Lover | October 7 | [17] |
| Salman Rushdie | The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories | November 4 | [18] |
Children and young adults
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen King illus. by Maurice Sendak | Hansel and Gretel | February 2 | [19] |
| Jacqueline Wilson, illus. by Rachael Dean | The Seaside Sleepover | March 27 | [20] |
| Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro | The Court of the Dead | September 23 | [21] |
| ND Stevenson | Scarlet Morning | September 23 | [22] |
| Charlie Mackesy | Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm | October 14 | [23] |
| Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper | October 21 | [24] |
Poetry
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robbie Coburn | The Foal in the Wire | May 28 |
Translations
Notable translations first published in English:
| Author | Translator(s) | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaim Grade | Rose Waldman | Sons and Daughters | March 25 | [25][26] |
| Solvej Balle | Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell | On the Calculation of Volume vol. III | November 18 | [27] |
Drama
Nonfiction
Biography and memoirs
Deaths
| Individual | Background | Date of death | Age | Cause of death | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Lodge | British author and critic (Small World: An Academic Romance, Changing Places, The Picturegoers) |
January 1 | 89 | [55] | |
| Joseph Monninger | American novelist and academic (The Letters) | 71 | lung cancer. | [56] | |
| Tidiane Diakité | Malian-born French historian and academic | January 2 | 80 | [57] | |
| Noreen Riols | British novelist and essayist | 98 | [58] | ||
| Howard Buten | American author and clown | January 3 | 74 | [59] | |
| Andrew Pyper | Canadian novelist | 56 | Cancer | [60] | |
| Peter Schaap | Dutch singer-songwriter and author | 78 | [61] | ||
| José Claer | Canadian novelist and poet | January 4 | 61 | [62] | |
| Richard Foreman | American playwright (Rhoda in Potatoland) | 87 | pneumonia | [63] | |
| Na D'Souza | Indian novelist and short story writer | January 5 | 87 | [64] | |
| Lee Hoesung | Japanese-South Korean novelist | 89 | [65] | ||
| František Šmahel | Czech historian and academic | 90 | [66] | ||
| Henry Beissel | Canadian poet, playwright and editor | January 9 | 95 | [67] | |
| Mukhtar Magauin | Kazakh writer, translator and publicist | 84 | [68] | ||
| Stephan Krasovitsky | Russian poet, translator, and priest | January 10 | 89 | [69] | |
| Keith Dewhurst | English playwright and scriptwriter | January 11 | 93 | [70] | |
| Paul Benacerraf | French-American philosopher | January 13 | 94 | [71] | |
| André Sollie | Belgian author and illustrator | 77 | [72] | ||
| Kjell Gjerseth | Norwegian novelist and journalist | January 14 | 78 | [73] | |
| Li Kuei-hsien | Taiwanese poet and translator | January 15 | 87 | [74] | |
| Geneviève Callerot | French novelist and resistance fighter | January 16 | 108 | [75] | |
| Howard Andrew Jones | American author and editor | 56 | brain cancer | [76] | |
| Ridley Wills II | American author and historian | 90 | [77] | ||
| Jules Feiffer | American cartoonist, playwright (Knock Knock), and screenwriter (Popeye, Munro), Pulitzer Prize winner (1986) |
January 17 | 95 | heart failure | [78] |
| Kulanthai Shanmugalingam | Sri Lankan playwright | 93 | [79] | ||
| Don Cupitt | English philosopher | January 18 | 90 | [80] | |
| Jalal Matini | Iranian writer and scholar | January 19 | 96 | [81] | |
| Michael Longley | Northern Irish poet (The Weather in Japan) | January 22 | 85 | complications from surgery | [82] |
| Tabish Mehdi | Indian poet and literary critic | 73 | [83] | ||
| Esther Jansma | Dutch writer and poet | January 23 | 66 | cancer | [84] |
| Joseph A. Amato | American historian and writer | January 24 | 86 | [85] | |
| Suzanne Massie | American historian and academic | January 26 | 94 | [86] | |
| Maung Khin Min | Burmese writer and linguist | January 27 | 83 | [87] | |
| Marina Colasanti | Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist | January 28 | 87 | [88] | |
| Mahmoud Saeed | Iraqi-born American novelist and short story writer | 86 | [89] | ||
| Tom Robbins | American novelist | February 9 | 92 | [90] | |
| Antonine Maillet | Canadian novelist and playwright | February 17 | 95 | [91] | |
| Joseph Wambaugh | American novelist | February 28 | 88 | esophageal cancer | [92] |
| Alex Wheatle | British novelist | March 16 | 62 | prostate cancer | [93] |
| Denise Boucher | Canadian poet and playwright | March 18 | 89 | [94] | |
| Alastair Niven | British literary scholar and author | March 26 | 81 | [95] | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | Peruvian novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (2010) | April 13 | 89 | [96] | |
| Judith Copithorne | Canadian poet and playwright | May 15 | 85 | [97] | |
| Edmund White | American novelist | June 3 | 85 | [98] | |
| Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | Canadian playwright | June 9 | 79 | [99] | |
| Denys Chabot | Canadian novelist and journalist | June 24 | 80 | [100] | |
| Anne Walmsley | British editor, scholar, critic and author | July 12 | 93 | [101] |
