2005 In Literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005.

Events

*February 25 – Canada Reads selects '' Rockbound'' by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
*March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.
*April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.
*June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.
* August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.

New books

Fiction

*Tariq Ali – ''A Sultan in Palermo''
* Rajaa Alsanea – '' Girls of Riyadh'' (بنات الرياض, ''Banat al-Riyadh'')
* Avi – ''Never Mind''
*Tash Aw – '' The Harmony Silk Factory''
*Steve Aylett – ''Lint''
* Doreen Baingana – '' Tropical Fish'' (short stories)
*John Banville – '' The Sea''
* Sebastian Barry – '' A Long Long Way''
* Nelson Bond – '' Other Worlds Than Ours''
*Dionne Brand – ''What We All Long For''
*Orson Scott Card
**'' Magic Street''
**'' Shadow of the Giant''
*Cormac McCarthy – ''No Country for Old Men''
* Rita Chowdhury – '' Deo Langkhui''
* Wendy Coakley-Thompson – '' What You Won't Do for Love''
* Eoin Colfer – '' Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception''
*Bernard Cornwell – '' The Pale Horseman''
* Colin Cotterill – '' Thirty-Three Teeth''
*Robert Crais – '' The Forgotten Man''
* Mitch Cullin – '' A Slight Trick of the Mind''
* Michael Cunningham – '' Specimen Days''
* Rana Dasgupta – '' Tokyo Cancelled''
*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''
**'' The Unseen Queen''
*Bret Easton Ellis – '' Lunar Park''
* Alicia Erian – '' Towelhead''
* Steve Erickson – ''Our Ecstatic Days''
*Sebastian Faulks – '' Human Traces''
* Amanda Filipacchi – '' Love Creeps''
*Jonathan Safran Foer – '' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close''
* Nicci French – '' Catch Me When I Fall''
* Gayleen Froese – ''Touch''
*Cornelia Funke – '' Inkspell''
* David Gibbins – ''Atlantis''
*Kate Grenville – ''The Secret River'' (Melbourne)
* Abdulrazak Gurnah – ''Desertion''
*Margaret Peterson Haddix – '' Among the Enemy''
* Joanne Harris – '' Gentlemen & Players''
*Carl Hiaasen – ''Flush''
* Charlie Higson – '' SilverFin''
* Peter Hobbs – ''The Short Day Dying''
*John Irving – '' Until I Find You''
*Kazuo Ishiguro – '' Never Let Me Go''
* Uzodinma Iweala – '' Beasts of No Nation''
* Raymond Khoury – '' The Last Templar''
*Stephen King – ''The Colorado Kid''
*Dean Koontz – ''Velocity''
* Elizabeth Kostova – '' The Historian''
*Stieg Larsson – ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''
*Marina Lewycka – ''A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian''
*Yiyun Li – ''A Thousand Years of Good Prayers'' (short stories)
*James Luceno
**'' Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader''
**'' Labyrinth of Evil''
* Mike McCormack – '' Notes from a Coma''
*Ian McEwan – ''Saturday''
* Elizabeth McKenzie – '' Stop That Girl''
* Kevin MacNeil – ''The Stornoway Way''
*Gregory Maguire – '' Son of a Witch''
*Gabriel García Márquez – '' Memories of My Melancholy Whores''
*Stephenie Meyer – ''Twilight''
* David Michaels – '' Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda''
* Robert Muchamore
**'' Maximum Security''
**'' The Killing''
*Péter Nádas – ''Parallel Stories''
*Garth Nix – '' Drowned Wednesday''
*Chuck Palahniuk – '' Haunted''
*Christopher Paolini – ''Eldest''
*Robert B. Parker – '' School Days''
*Ruth Rendell – '' End in Tears''
*Salman Rushdie – '' Shalimar the Clown''
*Darren Shan – ''Lord Loss'' (first of The Demonata series)
*Zadie Smith – '' On Beauty''
* Wesley Stace – '' Misfortune''
* 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''
* Vikas Swarup – '' Q & A''
* Rupert Thomson – '' Divided Kingdom''
*Harry Turtledove (editor) – '' The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp''
* Andrew Vachss – '' Two Trains Running''
* Catherynne M. Valente – '' Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams''
* Michal Viewegh – '' Lekce tvůrčího psaní''
* Narayan Wagle – '' Palpasa Cafe'' (पल्पसा क्याफे)
*Nalini Warriar – ''The Enemy Within''
*David Weber – '' At All Costs''
* Samantha Weinberg – '' The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel''
* Kirby Wright – ''Punahou Blues''
*Markus Zusak – '' The Book Thief''

Children and young people

*David Almond – ''Clay''
* Charlie Jane Anders – '' Choir Boy''
* Jackie French – '' They Came on Viking Ships''
*Jonathon Scott Fuqua – '' King of the Pygmies''
*John Green – ''Looking for Alaska''
* Charlie Higson – '' SilverFin''
* Julius Lester – '' The Old African''
*Claire and Monte Montgomery - '' Hubert Invents the Wheel''
*Jenny Nimmo – '' Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors''
* Jane O'Connor – '' Fancy Nancy'' (first in a series of over 70 books)
* Margie Palatini (with Barry Moser) – ''The Three Silly Billies''
* Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson – ''And Tango Makes Three''
* Philip Reeve – '' Infernal Devices''
*Rick Riordan – '' The Lightning Thief''
*J. K. Rowling – ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince''
*Lemony Snicket – '' The Penultimate Peril''
* Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – '' Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin''
* Jonathan Stroud – '' Ptolemy's Gate''
*Scott Westerfeld – '' Uglies'' (first in the Uglies series of four books)
*Markus Zusak – '' The Book Thief''

Drama

* Catherine Filloux – ''Lemkin's House''
* debbie tucker green
**''stoning mary''
**''generations''
* Oleg Kagan – ''The Black Hat''
* Carlos Lacamara – '' Nowhere on the Border''
* Peter Morris – '' Guardians''
* Vern Thiessen – '' Shakespeare's Will''
* Laura Wade
**'' Colder Than Here''
**'' Breathing Corpses''
* Vincent Woods – '' A Cry from Heaven''

Poetry

*Carol Ann Duffy – ''Rapture''

Non-fiction

*Matthew Bortolin – '' The Dharma of Star Wars''
* Edwin Bryant – ''Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history''
* Francis Chalifour – ''After''
* 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''
*Robert Fisk – '' The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East''
*Randy Grim – '' Miracle Dog''
* John Grogan – '' Marley & Me''
* Michael Gross – '' 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building''
*James Whitney Hicks - '' 50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health''
*Adam Hochschild – ''Bury the Chains''
* Tom Holland – ''Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West''
* Tony Judt – '' Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945''
* W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – '' Blue Ocean Strategy''
* 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''
*Paul A. Robinson – '' Queer Wars''
* Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn – '' Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing''
* 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''

Films

* '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''
* ''Oliver Twist''
* '' Pride & Prejudice''
* ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

Deaths

*January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)
*January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913 in literature, 1913)
*January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922 in literature, 1922)
*January 15
**Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920 in literature, 1920)
**Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913 in literature, 1913)
*January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974 in literature, 1974)
*January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921 in literature, 1921)
*January 21
**John L. Hess, American journalist and critic (born 1917 in literature, 1917)
**Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (born 1907 in literature, 1907)
*January 24 – Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko, Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933 in literature, 1933)
*January 25 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator (born 1923 in literature, 1923)
*January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924 in literature, 1924)
*February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915 in literature, 1915)
*February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944 in literature, 1944)
*February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937 in literature, 1937)
*February 21 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929 in literature, 1929)
*February 25 – Phoebe Hesketh, English poet (born 1909 in literature, 1909)
*March 7 – Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929 in literature, 1929)
*March 8
**Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born 1932 in literature, 1932)
**Anna Haycraft, English novelist (born 1932 in literature, 1932)
*March 10 – Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (born 1917 in literature, 1917)
*March 17 – Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (born 1912 in literature, 1912)
*March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922 in literature, 1922)
*March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926 in literature, 1926)
*April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915 in literature, 1915)
*April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964 in literature, 1964)
*April 26 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (born 1917 in literature, 1917)
*May 7 – Tristan Egolf, American novelist (suicide, born 1971 in literature, 1971)
*June 9 – Hovis Presley, English poet (heart attack, born 1960 in literature, 1960)
*June 10 – Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (cancer, born 1948 in literature, 1948)
*June 14 – Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (born 1923 in literature, 1923)
*June 16 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (born 1905 in literature, 1905)
*June 20 – Larry Collins (writer), Larry Collins, American novelist (born 1929 in literature, 1929)
*June 22 – William Donaldson, English satirist (born 1935 in literature, 1935)
*June 27 – Shelby Foote, American novelist (born 1916 in literature, 1916)
*June 28 – Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (born 1932 in literature, 1932)
*June 30 – Christopher Fry, English dramatist (born 1907 in literature, 1907)
*July 6
**Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926 in literature, 1926)
**Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913 in literature, 1913)
*July 7 – Gustaf Sobin, American poet (born 1935 in literature, 1935)
*July 17 – Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (born 1924 in literature, 1924)
*July 19 – Edward Bunker, American crime writer (born 1933 in literature, 1933)
*August 9 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (born 1935 in literature, 1935)
*August 16 – William Corlett, English author and playwright (born 1938 in literature, 1938)
*August 21 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born 1936 in literature, 1036)
*August 29 – Sybil Marshall, English novelist (born 1913 in literature, 1913)
*September 3 – R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (born 1913 in literature, 1913)
*September 26 – Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (born 1934 in literature, 1934)
*September 27
**Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927 in literature, 1927)
**Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918 in literature, 1918)
*October 2 – August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945 in literature, 1945)
*October 17 – Ba Jin (巴金), Chinese novelist (born 1904 in literature, 1904)
*October 31 – Amrita Pritam, Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born 1919 in literature, 1919)
*November 1 – Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (born 1915 in literature, 1915)
*November 2 – Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
*November 4 – Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (born 1932 in literature, 1932)
*November 5 – John Fowles, English writer (born 1926 in literature, 1926)
*November 21 – Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (born 1907 in literature, 1907)
*November 26 – Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1923 in literature, 1923)
*December 1 – Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
*December 2 – Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (born 1925 in literature, 1925)
*December 9 – Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (born 1928 in literature, 1928)
*December 15 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (born 1914 in literature, 1914)
*December 16 – Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (born 1921 in literature, 1921)

Awards

*Nobel Prize in Literature: Harold Pinter
*Camões Prize: Lygia Fagundes Telles

Australia

*The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew T. O'Connor, ''Tuvalu''
*C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin,
*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 (writer), 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 (author), Anne Coleman, ''I'll Tell You a Secret''

Sweden

*Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and Ryōji Arai

United Kingdom

*Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (first award): Duncan Macmillan (playwright), Duncan Macmillan, ''Monster''
*Caine Prize for African Writing: S. A. Afolabi, "Monday Morning"
*Carnegie Medal (literary award), Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mal Peet, ''Tamar (novel), Tamar''
*Cholmondeley Award: Jane Duran, Christopher Logue, M. R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson
*Commonwealth Writers Prize: Andrea Levy, ''Small Island (novel), 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 (poet), 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 (writer), Justin Hill, ''Passing Under Heaven''; Maggie O'Farrell, ''The Distance Between Us''
*Whitbread Book Awards, 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 (poet), 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''Hahn 2015, p. 658
*PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The March (novel), 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 (novel), 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 (writer), John Keene (fiction/poetry)
:Plays: Rinne Groff
:Poetry: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin (poet), 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

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References

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