1985 in literature
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See also: 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
- The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome - Wayne Kritsberg
- At the Going Down of the Sun - Elizabeth Darrell
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Music - Greg Bear
- The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- Contact - Carl Sagan
- The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
- Elvis and Me - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Eon - Greg Bear
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon
- Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor
- Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel
- The Nuclear Age - Tim O'Brien
- Rebuilding Coventry - Sue Townsend
- Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov
- The Secret Life of Saeed - Imil Habibi
- Secrets - Danielle Steel
- Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
- Texas - James A. Michener
- Walking on Glass - Iain Banks
Births
Deaths
- July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate
- August 30 - Taylor Caldwell
- December 7 - Robert Graves
Awards
- Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
- See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon
- Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffelec, Les Noces barbares
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, Naissance d'une passion
- Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, God Knows
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, Elegies