Births
- February 10 - Fleur Adcock, poet
- February 10 - Gordon Lish, American writer, editor and teacher
- March 28 - Jean Louvet, dramatist
- May 12 - Elechi Amadi, Nigerian novelist
- May 27 - Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.
- July 13 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, poet and playwright; awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
- July 21 - Jonathan Miller, satirist and non-fiction author
- August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer of science fiction and fantasy
- September 11 - Leon Rooke, Canadian novelist
- October 17 - Alan Garner, novelist
- November 9 - Ronald Harwood, dramatist
- November 21 - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (died 2010)
- December 28 - Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer
- date unknown - Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
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