1965 in literature

Events

• The Magus[?] - John Fowles is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

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[?]
• Herzog[?] - Saul Bellow
• Hotel[?] - Arthur Hailey
• The Looking-Glass War[?] - John le Carré
• The Magus[?] - John Fowles
• The Man With The Golden Gun[?] - Ian Fleming
• Markings[?] - Dag Hammarskjold
• 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[?]

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

• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Maia Wojciechowska[?], Shadow of a Bull
• Nobel Prize for literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• 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