2005 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2005.

Events

January 16 – 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote in Spain.
February 25 – Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
March 26 – Classic British science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.^[1]
April 23 – The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec's Grande Bibliothèque is opened.
June 13 – Poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan is killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.^[2]
August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.^[3]

New books

Poetry

Non-fiction

Francis Chalifour – After^[4]
Jung Chang & Jon Halliday – Mao: The Unknown Story
Theodore Dalrymple – Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Michel Déon – Horseman, Pass By! (Cavalier, passe ton chemin!)
Jared Diamond – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
Amir-Abbas Fakhravar – Still, the Scraps of Prison (هنوز هم؛ ورق پاره های زندان)
Robert Fisk – The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
John Grogan – Marley & Me
Tom Holland – Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tony Judt – Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Lawrence M. Krauss – Hiding in the Mirror
Mark Levin – Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America
Alexander Masters – Stuart: A Life Backwards
Azadeh Moaveni – Lipstick Jihad
Peter C. Newman – The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Lisa Randall – Warped Passages
Jean Raspail – En Canot sur les chemins d'eau du Roi
James S. Shapiro – 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Masamune Shirow – Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost
David Southwell – Secrets and Lies
James B. Stewart – DisneyWar
Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (encyclopedia)

Deaths

January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)
January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)
January 15
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)
January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide, born 1974)
January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)
January 21
- John L. Hess, American journalist and critic (born 1917)
- Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (born 1907)
January 24 – Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933)
January 25 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator
January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)
February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)
February 21 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929)
February 25 – Phoebe Hesketh, English poet (born 1909)
March 7 – Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929)
March 8 – Anna Haycraft, English novelist (born 1932)
March 10 – Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (born 1917)
March 17 – Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (born 1912)
March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)
April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)
April 26 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (born 1917)
May 7 – Tristan Egolf, American novelist (suicide, born 1971)
June 9 – Hovis Presley, English poet (heart attack, born 1960)
June 14 – Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (born 1923)
June 16 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (born 1905)
June 20 – Larry Collins, American novelist (born 1929)
June 22 – William Donaldson, English satirist (born 1935)
June 27 – Shelby Foote, American novelist (born 1916)
June 28 – Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (born 1932)
June 30 – Christopher Fry, English dramatist (born 1907)
July 6
- Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913)
- Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926)
July 7 – Gustaf Sobin, American poet (born 1935)
July 17 – Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (born 1924)
July 19 – Edward Bunker, American crime writer (born 1933)
August 9 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (born 1935)
August 16 – William Corlett, English author and playwright (born 1938)
August 21 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born 1036)
August 29 – Sybil Marshall, English novelist (born 1913)
September 3 – R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (born 1913)
September 26 – Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (born 1934)
September 27
- Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918)
- Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927)
October 2 – August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945)
October 17 – Ba Jin (巴金), Chinese novelist (born 1904)
November 1 – Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (born 1915)
November 2 – Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
November 4 – Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (born 1932)
November 5 – John Fowles, English writer (born 1926)
November 26 – Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1923)
December 1 – Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
December 2 – Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (born 1925)
December 9 – Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (born 1928)
December 15 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (born 1914)
December 16 – Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (born 1921)

Awards

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

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
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret^[5]

United Kingdom

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mal Peet, Tamar
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 (first award): 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

United States

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: B.H. Fairchild
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Rick Hilles, Brother Salvage: Poems
Arthur Rense Prize: Daniel Hoffman
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
Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2005 Lambda Literary Awards.
National Book Award for Poetry: W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems
National Book Critics Circle Award: to War Trash by Ha Jin
Newbery Medal: Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The March by E.L. Doctorow
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 Awards:

Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Nell Freudenberger, Seth Kantner, John Keene (fiction/poetry)

Plays: Rinne Groff

Poetry: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith

Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke, Off-Season City Pipe

Other

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones – The Known World
Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith

References

^ "Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner" (Press release). BBC. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
^ BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014
^ "National Library of Norway". The European Library. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
^ Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.
^ Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[1] "Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner" (Press release). BBC. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 23 November 2013.

[2] BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014

[3] "National Library of Norway". The European Library. Retrieved 2 January 2017.

[4] Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.

[5] Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Other

See also

References