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{{short description|Overview of the events of 2005 in literature}}{{Year nav topic5|2005|literature|poetry}}This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Events
- January 16 â This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote in Spain.
- February 25 â Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.BOOK, Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein, Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre,weblink 2009, John Benjamins Publishing, 978-90-272-5433-7, 100,
- March 26 â The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.PRESS RELEASE,weblink Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, BBC, 10 March 2005, 23 November 2013,
- April 23 â The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.BOOK, Library Journal,weblink 2005, Library Journal, 17,
- June 13 â The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.BBC News â "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014
- August 15 â An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.WEB,weblink National Library of Norway, 2 January 2017, The European Library,
New books
{{See also|2005 in books}}Fiction
- Tariq Ali â A Sultan in PalermoBOOK, Ludo Abicht, Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities,weblink 2008, Leuven University Press, 978-90-5867-672-6, 188,
- Rajaa Alsanea â Girls of Riyadh (بÙات اÙرÙاض, Banat al-Riyadh)
- Avi â Never Mind
- Tash Aw â The Harmony Silk Factory
- Steve Aylett â Lint
- Doreen Baingana â Tropical Fish (short stories)
- John Banville â The Sea
- Sebastian Barry â A Long Long Way
- Nelson Bond â Other Worlds Than Ours
- Dionne Brand â What We All Long For
- Orson Scott Card
- Rita Chowdhury â Deo Langkhui
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson â What You Won't Do for Love
- Eoin Colfer â Artemis Fowl and the Opal DeceptionNEWS,weblink Entertainment Weekly "Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2005)", 17 June 2008, 27 April 2005,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080528173110weblink">weblink 28 May 2008, live,
- Bernard Cornwell â The Pale HorsemanBOOK, The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries,weblink 1 November 2012, BRILL, 978-90-04-24186-2, 149,
- Colin Cotterill â Thirty-Three Teeth
- Robert Crais â The Forgotten Man
- Mitch Cullin â A Slight Trick of the Mind
- Michael Cunningham â Specimen Days
- Rana Dasgupta â Tokyo Cancelled
- Lindsey Davis â See Delphi and Die
- Abha Dawesar â Babyji
- L. Sprague de Camp â (Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp)
- Troy Denning
- Bret Easton Ellis â Lunar Park
- Alicia Erian â Towelhead
- Steve Erickson â Our Ecstatic Days
- Sebastian Faulks â Human Traces
- Amanda Filipacchi â Love Creeps
- Jonathan Safran Foer â Extremely Loud & Incredibly CloseJOURNAL, Sien Uytterschout, Kristaan Versluys, Melancholy and Mourning in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Orbis Litterarum, 63, 3, 216â236, May 15, 2008, 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00927.x, free,
- Nicci French â Catch Me When I Fall
- Gayleen Froese â Touch
- Cornelia Funke â Inkspell
- David Gibbins â Atlantis
- Kate Grenville â The Secret River (Melbourne)
- Abdulrazak Gurnah â Desertion
- Margaret Peterson Haddix â Among the Enemy
- Joanne Harris â Gentlemen & Players
- Carl Hiaasen â Flush
- Charlie Higson â SilverFin
- Peter Hobbs â The Short Day Dying
- John Irving â Until I Find You
- Kazuo Ishiguro â Never Let Me Go
- Uzodinma Iweala â Beasts of No Nation
- Raymond Khoury â The Last Templar
- Stephen King â The Colorado Kid
- Dean Koontz â Velocity
- Elizabeth Kostova â The Historian
- Stieg Larsson â The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Marina Lewycka â A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Yiyun Li â A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short stories)
- James Luceno
- (Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader)
- Labyrinth of Evil
- Mike McCormack â Notes from a ComaBOOK, Book Review Digest,weblink 2006, H. W. Wilson Company, 936,
- Ian McEwan â Saturday
- Elizabeth McKenzie – Stop That Girl
- Kevin MacNeil â The Stornoway Way
- Gregory Maguire â Son of a Witch
- Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez â Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- Stephenie Meyer â Twilight
- David Michaels â (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda)
- Robert Muchamore
- Péter Nádas â Parallel Stories
- Garth Nix â Drowned Wednesday
- Chuck Palahniuk â Haunted
- Christopher Paolini â Eldest
- Robert B. Parker â School Days
- Ruth Rendell â End in Tears
- Salman Rushdie â Shalimar the Clown
- Darren Shan â Lord Loss (first of The Demonata series)
- Michael Slade â Swastika
- Zadie Smith â On Beauty
- Wesley Stace â Misfortune
- Olen Steinhauer â 36 Yalta Boulevard
- Matthew Stover â (Star Wars: Episode III â Revenge of the Sith (novel)|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
- Thomas Sullivan â Second Soul
- Jean-François Susbielle â La Morsure du dragon
- Vikas Swarup â Q & A
- Rupert Thomson â Divided Kingdom
- Harry Turtledove (editor) â (The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp)
- Andrew Vachss â Two Trains Running
- Catherynne M. Valente â (Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams)
- Michal Viewegh â Lekce tvůrÄÃho psanÃ
- Narayan Wagle â Palpasa Cafe (पलà¥à¤ªà¤¸à¤¾ à¤à¥à¤¯à¤¾à¤«à¥)
- David Weber â At All Costs
- Samantha Weinberg â (The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel)
- Kirby Wright â Punahou Blues
- Markus Zusak â The Book Thief
Children and young people
- David Almond â ClayHahn 2015, p. 21
- Charlie Jane Anders â Choir Boy
- Jackie French â They Came on Viking Ships
- Jonathon Scott Fuqua â King of the Pygmies
- John Green â Looking for AlaskaHahn 2015, p. 246
- Charlie Higson â SilverFinHahn 2015, p. 274
- Julius Lester â The Old African
- Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel
- Jenny Nimmo â Charlie Bone and the Castle of MirrorsWEB, 04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward,weblink www.penguin.com.au, 20 January 2022, en,
- Jane O'Connor â Fancy Nancy (first in a series of over 70 books)
- Margie Palatini (with Barry Moser) â The Three Silly Billies
- Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson â And Tango Makes Three
- Philip Reeve â Infernal DevicesHahn 2015, p. 492
- Rick Riordan â The Lightning ThiefHahn 2015, p. 449
- J. K. Rowling â Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHahn 2015, p. 264-265
- Lemony Snicket â The Penultimate PerilBOOK, Olson, Danel, 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000, 2011, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-7728-3, 523,weblink en,
- Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) â (Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin)
- Jonathan Stroud â Ptolemy's GateHahn 2015, p. 557
- Scott Westerfeld â Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books)
- Markus Zusak â The Book ThiefHahn 2015, p. 652
Drama
- Catherine Filloux â Lemkin's House
- debbie tucker green
- stoning mary
- generations
- Oleg Kagan â The Black Hat
- Carlos Lacamara â Nowhere on the Border
- The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble â Wounded
- Peter Morris â Guardians
- Vern Thiessen â Shakespeare's Will
- Laura Wade
- Vincent Woods â A Cry from Heaven
Poetry
- Carol Ann Duffy â Rapture
Non-fiction
- Matthew Bortolin – The Dharma of Star Wars
- Edwin Bryant â Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history
- Francis Chalifour â AfterGoodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- Jung Chang & Jon Halliday â
- Theodore Dalrymple â (Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses)
- Michel Déon â Horseman, Pass By! (Cavalier, passe ton chemin!)
- Jared Diamond â (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed)
- Joan Didion â The Year of Magical Thinking
- Robert Fisk â (The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East)
- Randy Grim â Miracle Dog
- John Grogan â Marley & Me
- Michael Gross â (740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building)
- James Whitney Hicks - (50 Signs of Mental Illness|50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health)
- Adam Hochschild â Bury the Chains
- Tom Holland â Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
- Tony Judt â (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945)
- W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Blue Ocean Strategy
- Lawrence M. Krauss â Hiding in the Mirror
- Mark Levin â Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America
- Alexander Masters â (Stuart: A Life Backwards)
- Azadeh Moaveni â Lipstick Jihad
- Peter C. Newman â (The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister)
- Lisa Randall â Warped Passages
- Paul A. Robinson â Queer Wars
- Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn â (Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing)
- James S. Shapiro â 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- Masamune Shirow â (Ghost in the Shell (manga)|Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface)
- Rebecca Solnit â A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- David Southwell â Secrets and Lies
- James B. Stewart â DisneyWar
Films
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Oliver Twist
- Pride & Prejudice
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Deaths
- January 4 â Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)
- January 7 â Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)
- January 14 â Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)
- January 15
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)
- January 19 â K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide, born 1974)
- January 20 â 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 â Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933)
- January 25 â Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator (born 1923)WEB,weblinkweblink 2022-05-01, subscription, Max Velthuijs, 29 January 2005, The Independent, 20 January 2021, {{cbignore}}
- January 29 â Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
- February 10 â Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)
- February 11 â Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
- February 20 â Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)WEB, Citizen Thompson â Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud",weblink The Smoking Gun, September 8, 2005, October 13, 2008,
- February 21 â Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929)
- February 25 â Phoebe Hesketh, English poet (born 1909)
- March 7 â Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929)
- March 8
- Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born 1932)WEB,weblink Alice Thomas Ellis, Claire Colvin, 10 March 2005, The Guardian, 20 January 2021,
- Anna Haycraft, English novelist (born 1932)
- March 10 â Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (born 1917)
- March 17 â Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (born 1912)WEB, Andre Norton,weblinkweblink 2022-05-01, subscription, The Independent, 8 October 2011, 18 June 2018, {{cbignore}}
- March 22 â Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
- March 30 â Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
- April 5 â Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)WEB,weblink Saul Bellow, 7 April 2005, Stanley Reynolds, The Guardian, 20 January 2021,
- April 7 â Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)WEB,weblink Yvonne Vera, 27 April 2005, Helon Habila, The Guardian, 22 November 2023,
- April 26 â Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (born 1917)
- May 7 â Tristan Egolf, American novelist (suicide, born 1971)
- June 9 â Hovis Presley, English poet (heart attack, born 1960)
- June 10 â Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (cancer, born 1948)
- June 14 â Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (born 1923)
- June 16 â Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (born 1905)
- June 20 â Larry Collins, American novelist (born 1929)
- June 22 â William Donaldson, English satirist (born 1935)
- June 27 â Shelby Foote, American novelist (born 1916)
- June 28 â Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (born 1932)
- June 30 â Christopher Fry, English dramatist (born 1907)
- July 6
- Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926)
- Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913)
- July 7 â Gustaf Sobin, American poet (born 1935)
- July 17 â Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (born 1924)
- July 19 â Edward Bunker, American crime writer (born 1933)
- August 9 â Judith Rossner, American novelist (born 1935)
- August 16 â William Corlett, English author and playwright (born 1938)
- August 21 â Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born 1036)
- August 29 â Sybil Marshall, English novelist (born 1913)
- September 3 â R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (born 1913)
- September 26 â Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (born 1934)WEB, Obituary: Helen Cresswell,weblink the Guardian, 10 January 2022, en, 29 September 2005,
- September 27
- Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927)
- Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918)
- October 2 â August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945)
- October 17 â Ba Jin (å·´é), Chinese novelist (born 1904)
- October 31 â Amrita Pritam, Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born 1919)
- November 1 â Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (born 1915)
- November 2 â Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
- November 4 â Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (born 1932)
- November 5 â John Fowles, English writer (born 1926)
- November 21 â Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (born 1907)
- November 26 â Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1923)
- December 1 â Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
- December 2 â Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (born 1925)
- December 9 â Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (born 1928)
- December 15 â Julián MarÃas, Spanish philosopher and author (born 1914)
- December 16 â 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, {{proper name| 1â100}}
- 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 SecretFaculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award {{Webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164140weblink |date=2014-06-06 }}, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012
Sweden
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and RyÅji AraiHahn 2015, p. 653
United Kingdom
- Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (first award): Duncan Macmillan, Monster
- Caine Prize for African Writing: S. A. Afolabi, "Monday Morning"
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mal Peet, TamarHahn 2015, p. 661
- 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 B. S. 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-KiraHahn 2015, p. 658
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The March by E.L. Doctorow
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick Shanley, (Doubt (play)|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
Other
- International Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones, The Known World
- German Book Prize (first award): Arno Geiger, (:de:Es geht uns gut|Es geht uns gut) (We Are Doing Fine)
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith
See also
- List of years in literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- 2005 in Australian literature
Notes
- BOOK, Hahn, Daniel, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, 2015, Oxford. University Press, 9780198715542, 2nd,
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