•
January 5 –
Florence King, American writer (died
2016) •
January 10 –
Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian (died
2002) •
January 28 –
Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist and poet (died
2024) •
February 12 –
Shawkat Ali, Bangladeshi writer (died
2018) •
February 18 –
Jean M. Auel, American historical novelist •
March 1 –
Jean-René Huguenin, French novelist and literary critic (died
1962) •
March 2 –
Gondoo U Thein Naing, Burmese writer (died
2025) •
March 7 –
Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker and essayist (died
1982) •
March 28 •
Peter Mayer, English-born publisher (died
2018) •
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist,
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (died
2025) •
March 29 –
Judith Guest, American novelist and screenwriter •
March 31 –
Marge Piercy, American poet and activist •
April 12 –
Frankétienne, Haitian writer (died
2025) •
April 13 –
Choi In-hun, South Korean writer (died
2018) •
April 30 –
Viktor Likhonosov, Soviet Russian writer and editor (died
2021) •
May 10 –
Anthea Bell, English translator (died
2018) •
May 23 –
Ian Kennedy Martin, English scriptwriter and novelist •
May 27 –
Ivo Brešan, Croatian playwright, novelist, screenwriter and satirist (died
2016) •
June 3 •
Duff Hart-Davis, English biographer and journalist •
Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist and screenwriter (died
2021) •
June 9 –
Nell Dunn, English playwright and author •
June 18 –
Dick Wimmer, American novelist (died
2011) •
June 23 –
Richard Bach, American novelist and non-fiction writer •
June 24 –
J. H. Prynne, English poet (died
2026) •
June 29 –
David Rudkin, English playwright •
July 5 –
Valerie Flint, English medieval historian (died
2009) •
July 6 –
Abidullah Ghazi, Indian-American author, educator and poet (died
2021) •
August 8 –
Jan Pieńkowski, Polish-born British children's writer and illustrator (died
2022) •
August 24 –
A. S. Byatt, English novelist (died
2023) •
August 27 –
Philippe Labro, French writer, journalist and film director (died
2025) •
September 1 –
Roderick Thorp, American novelist (died
1999) •
September 2 –
Károly Krajczár,
Hungarian Slovene teacher, writer and collector (died
2018) •
September 10 –
Peter Lovesey, English crime fiction and short story writer (died
2025) •
September 20 –
Andrew Davies, Welsh novelist and screenwriter •
September 26 –
Victor Watson, English children's writer and academic •
October 1 –
Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran, Sri Lankan writer, art and literary critic, journalist and radio and TV personality •
October 5 –
Václav Havel, Czech dramatist and first president of
Czech Republic (died
2011) •
November 4 –
C. K. Williams, American poet (died
2015) •
November 17 –
John Wells, English satirical writer and actor (died
1998) •
November 18 –
Suzette Haden Elgin, American science fiction writer (died
2015) •
November 20 –
Don DeLillo, American novelist •
November 25 –
William McIlvanney, Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet (died
2015) •
November 27 –
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (died
2005) •
December 1 –
Ma Văn Kháng, Vietnamese writer •
December 2 –
Hebe Uhart, Argentine writer (died
2018) •
December 5 •
James Lee Burke, American writer •
Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died
2010) •
December 11 –
Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist and children's writer (died
1993) •
December 17 –
Frank Martinus Arion,
Curaçaoan novelist and poet (died
2015) ==Deaths==