2005 in literature
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The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- 400th anniversary of Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote.
- February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
[edit] New books
See also: 2005 in books
- Avi - Never Mind
- John Banville - The Sea
- Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way
- Nelson Bond - Other Worlds Than Ours
- Orson Scott Card - Magic Street and Shadow of the Giant
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson - What You Won't Do For Love
- Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
- Bernard Cornwell - The Pale Horseman
- Lindsey Davis - See Delphi and Die
- Abha Dawesar - Babyji
- L. Sprague de Camp - Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
- Troy Denning - The Joiner King, The Swarm War and The Unseen Queen
- Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
- Alicia Erian - Towelhead
- Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces
- Amanda Filipacchi - Love Creeps
- Nicci French - Catch Me When I Fall
- Gayleen Froese - Touch
- David Gibbins - Atlantis
- Joanne Harris - Gentlemen & Players
- Carl Hiaasen - Flush
- Charlie Higson - SilverFin
- John Irving - Until I Find You
- Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
- Uzodinma Iweala - Beasts of No Nation
- Dean Koontz - Velocity
- James Luceno - Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and Labyrinth of Evil
- Ian McEwan - Saturday
- Gregory Maguire - Son of a Witch
- David Michaels - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
- Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
- Christopher Paolini - Eldest
- Robert B. Parker - School Days
- Ruth Rendell - End in Tears
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Darren Shan - Lord Loss (first of The Demonata series)
- Michael Slade - Swastika
- Lemony Snicket - The Penultimate Peril
- David Southwell - Secrets and L ies (book)
- Olen Steinhauer - 36 Yalta Boulevard
- Matthew Stover - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Thomas Sullivan - Second Soul
- Jean-François Susbielle - La Morsure du dragon
- Harry Turtledove, editor - The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
- Andrew Vachss - Two Trains Running
- David Weber - At All Costs
- Samantha Weinberg - The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
- Garth Nix - Drowned Wednesday
- Kirby Wright - Punahou Blues
- Doctor Charles Goodwin - Scout Shorts
[edit] New drama
- Catherine Filloux - Lemkin's House
- Oleg Kagan - The Black Hat
- The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble - Wounded
[edit] Non-fiction
- Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
- Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
- Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story
- John Grogan - Marley & Me
- Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards
- Azadeh Moaveni - Lipstick Jihad
- Peter C. Newman - The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
- Masamune Shirow - Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
- James B. Stewart - DisneyWar
- Jane Smiley - Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
- Binod Bihari Verma - Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya Biography of Shriram Sharma Acharya
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
- January 14 - Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (b. 1922)
- January 15 - Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (b. 1913)
- January 15 - Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (b. 1920)
- January 19 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
- January 21 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (b. 1907)
- January 24 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (b. 1933)
- January 25 - Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator
- January 29 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter. (b. 1924)
- February 10 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
- February 11 - Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (b. 1944)
- February 21 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
- February 25 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (b. 1909)
- March 7 - Willis Hall, English playwright (b. 1929)
- March 8 - Anna Haycraft, English novelist (b. 1932)
- March 17 - Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (b. 1912)
- March 22 - Anthony Creighton, English playwright (b. 1922)
- March 30 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
- April 7 - Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (b. 1964)
- April 26 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917)
- May 7 - Tristan Egolf, American novelist (b. 1971)
- June 9 - Hovis Presley, English poet (b. 1960)
- June 14 - Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (b. 1923)
- June 16 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (b. 1905)
- June 20 - Larry Collins American novelist (b. 1929)
- June 22 - William Donaldson, English satirist (b. 1935)
- June 27 - Shelby Foote, American novelist (b. 1916)
- June 28 - Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (b. 1932)
- June 30 - Christopher Fry, English dramatist (b. 1907)
- July 6
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- Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (b. 1913)
- Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
- July 7 - Gustaf Sobin, American poet (b. 1935)
- July 17 - Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (b. 1924)
- July 19 - Edward Bunker, American crime writer (b. 1933)
- August 9 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
- August 21 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
- August 29 - Sybil Marshall, English novelist (b. 1913)
- September 3 - R.S.R. Fitter, English nature writer (b. 1913)
- September 26 - Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (b. 1934)
- September 27:
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- Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (b. 1918)
- Ronald Pearsall, English writer (b. 1927)
- October 2 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
- October 17 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (b. 1904)
- November 1 - Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (b. 1915)
- November 2 - Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
- November 3 - Robert Waller, English poet, (b. 1913)
- November 4 - Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (b. 1932)
- November 26 - Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
- December 1 - Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
- December 2 - Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (b. 1925)
- December 9 - Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (b. 1928)
- December 15 - Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (b. 1914)
- December 16 - Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew T. O'Connor, Tuvalu
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin, <More Or Less Than>1-100
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Samuel Wagan Watson, Smoke Encrypted Whispers
- Miles Franklin Award: Andrew McGahan, The White Earth
[edit] Canada
- Governor General's Award for English language fiction: David Gilmour - A Perfect Night to Go to China
- Griffin Poetry Prize: Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida and Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963-2003
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: David Bergen - The Time in Between
[edit] United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: Jane Duran, Christopher Logue, M.R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson
- Commonwealth Writers Prize: Andrea Levy - Small Island
- Dagger of Daggers: John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
- Eric Gregory Award: Melanie Challenger, Carolyn Jess, Luke Kennard, Jaim Smith
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sue Prideaux, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ian McEwan, Saturday
- Man Booker International Prize: Ismail Kadare
- Man Booker Prize: John Banville - The Sea
- Samuel Johnson Prize: Jonathan Coe - Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Somerset Maugham Award: Justin Hill - Passing Under Heaven; Maggie O'Farrell - The Distance Between Us
- Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Hilary Spurling - Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954
[edit] United States
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry - B.H. Fairchild
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Rick Hilles for Brother Salvage: Poems
- Arthur Rense Prize awarded to Daniel Hoffman by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Jay Wright
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Susanna Childress, Jagged with Love
- Compton Crook Award: Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow
- Frost Medal: Marie Ponsot
- Hugo Award: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- National Book Award for Poetry: W.S. Merwin: Migration: New and Selected Poems
- Newbery Medal: Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick Shanley - Doubt: A Parable
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Ted Kooser - Delights & Shadows
- Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern
- Whiting Writers' Awards:
- Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Nell Freudenberger, Seth Kantner, John Keene (fiction/poetry)
- Plays: Rinne Groff
- Poetry: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, John Keene (fiction/poetry), Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith
- Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke, (poetry) Off-Season City Pipe
[edit] Elsewhere
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones - The Known World
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith
