2025 in literature

Anniversaries

• 14 January – Yukio Mishima was born in 1925.
• 18 January – Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925.
• 20 January – Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925.
• 20 January – Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925.
• 1 February – Alfred Grosser was born in 1925.
• 4 February – Russell Hoban was born in 1925.
• 6 February – Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925.
• 22 February – Edward Gorey was born in 1925.
• 24 February – Etel Adnan was born in 1925.
• 10 March – Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925.
• 12 March – Harry Harrison was born in 1925.
• 21 March – Peter Brook was born in 1925.
• 25 March – Flannery O'Connor was born in 1925.
• 11 May – Rubem Fonseca was born in 1925.
• 27 May – Jean-Paul Aron was born in 1925.
• 27 May – Tony Hillerman was born in 1925.
• 6 June – Thomas Mann was born in 1875.
• 10 June – James Salter was born in 1925.
• 30 June – Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925.
• 19 July – Jean-Pierre Faye was born in 1925.
• 20 July – Frantz Fanon was born in 1925.
• 26 July – Ana María Matute was born in 1925.
• 1 August – Ernst Jandl was born in 1925.
• 18 August – Brian Aldiss was born in 1925.
• 25 August – Thea Astley was born in 1925.
• 27 August – Saiichi Maruya was born in 1925.
• 6 September – Andrea Camilleri was born in 1925.
• 15 September – Giuseppe Fava was born in 1925.
• 19 September – Tatsuhiro Ōshiro was born in 1925.
• 24 September – Kunio Tsuji was born in 1925.
• 3 October – Gore Vidal was born in 1925.
• 11 October – Elmore Leonard was born in 1925.
• 13 October – Frank D. Gilroy was born in 1925.
• 20 October – Art Buchwald was born in 1925.
• 2 November – Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered in 1975.
• 14 November – Jean Paul died in 1825.
• 4 December
• * Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875.
• * Hannah Arendt died in 1975.
• 5 December – E. Marlitt was born in 1825.
• 7 December – Thornton Wilder died in 1975.
• 8 December – Carmen Martín Gaite was born in 1925.
• 12 December – Ahmad Shamlou was born in 1925.
• 16 December – Jane Austen was born in 1775.
• 19 December
• * Tankred Dorst was born in 1925.
• * Brandon Sanderson was born in 1975.
• 21 December – Giovanni Boccaccio died in 1375.

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