Births
- January 16 – Helen Darville, Australian novelist
- February 3 – Sarah Kane, playwright (died 1999)
- March 29 – José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian writer, photographer
- May 28– Richard Gunn, journalist and motoring writer
- July 17 – Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer
- July 22 – Akhil Sharma, Indian novelist
- September 3 - Kiran Desai, Indian novelist, daughter of Anita Desai
- December 19 – Tristan Egolf, novelist and short story writer (died 2005)
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