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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
• April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.<ref>BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014</ref>
• August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New books

Fiction

• Tariq Ali – A Sultan in Palermo<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 21</ref>
• Charlie Jane Anders – Choir Boy
• Lysa Divine -Drama High
• Jackie French – They Came on Viking Ships
• Jonathon Scott Fuqua – King of the Pygmies
• John Green – Looking for Alaska<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 246</ref>
• Charlie Higson – SilverFin<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 274</ref>
• Julius Lester – The Old African
• Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel
• Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 492</ref>
• Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 449</ref>
• J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 264-265</ref>
• Lemony Snicket – The Penultimate Peril<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
• Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's Gate<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 557</ref>
• Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books)
• Markus Zusak – The Book Thief<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 652</ref>

Drama

• Catherine Filloux – Lemkin's House
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  • 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

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• 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<ref>Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.</ref>
• 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)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• January 15
  • Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)Template:Cn
  • Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974)Template:Cn
• January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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 (born 1923)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
• February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)<ref>

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• February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
• February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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
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• • 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
• March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
• April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 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 10 – Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (cancer, born 1948)
• 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
  • Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926)
  • Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913)
• 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• September 27
  • Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927)
  • Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918)
• October 2 – August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945)
• October 17 – Ba Jin (巴金), Chinese novelist (born 1904)
• October 31 – Amrita Pritam, Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born 1919)
• 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 21 – Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (born 1907)
• 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

• 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, Template:Proper name
• 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<ref>Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award Template:Webarchive, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>

Sweden

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and Ryōji Arai<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 653</ref>

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, Tamar<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 661</ref>
• 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-Kira<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 658</ref>
• 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

Other

• International Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones, The Known World
• German Book Prize (first award): Arno Geiger, 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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