2005 IN LITERATURE

The year '2005 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

See also

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.

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

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★ ''Magic Street''

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★ ''Shadow of the Giant

★ Wendy Coakley-Thompson - ''What You Won't Do For Love''

★ Eoin Colfer - ''

★ Lindsey Davis - ''See Delphi and Die''

★ Abha Dawesar - ''Babyji''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''

★ Troy Denning

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★ ''The Joiner King''

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★ ''The Swarm War''

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★ ''The Unseen Queen''

★ Bret Easton Ellis - ''Lunar Park''

★ Sebastian Faulks - ''Human Traces''

★ 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

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★ ''

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★ ''Labyrinth of Evil''

★ Ian McEwan - ''Saturday''

★ Gregory Maguire - ''Son of a Witch''

★ David Michaels - ''

★ Chuck Palahniuk - ''Haunted''

★ Christopher Paolini - ''Eldest''

★ 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 - ''

★ Thomas Sullivan - ''Second Soul''

★ Jean-François Susbielle - ''La Morsure du dragon''

★ Harry Turtledove, editor - ''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Two Trains Running''

★ David Weber - ''At All Costs''

★ Samantha Weinberg - ''

★ Garth Nix - ''Drowned Wednesday''

★ Kirby Wright - ''Punahou Blues''

New drama

★ Catherine Filloux - ''Lemkin's House''

★ Oleg Kagan - ''The Black Hat''

★ The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble - ''Wounded''

Non-fiction

★ Joan Didion - ''The Year of Magical Thinking''

★ Tony Judt - ''

★ Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - ''

★ John Grogan - ''Marley & Me''

★ Alexander Masters - ''

★ Azadeh Moaveni - ''Lipstick Jihad''

★ Peter C. Newman - ''

★ Masamune Shirow - ''

★ James B. Stewart - ''DisneyWar''

★ Jane Smiley - ''Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel''

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)
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★ 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)
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★ 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)

Awards

★ Nobel Prize in Literature: Harold Pinter

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew T. O'Connor, ''Tuvalu''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin, ''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''

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

★ Man Booker International Prize: Ismail Kadare

★ Man Booker Prize: John Banville - ''The Sea''

★ Samuel Johnson Prize: Jonathan Coe - ''

★ 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 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

★ 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

Elsewhere

★ International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones - ''The Known World''

See also

★ List of years in literature

★ Literature

★ Poetry

★ List of literary awards

★ List of poetry awards