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

Events

January 16 – This is the 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.[1]
March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.[2]
April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.[3]
June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.[4]
August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.[5]

New books

Deaths

January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)
January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)
January 14 – 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 – 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 (born 1923)[13]
January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)[14]
February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)[15]
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
- Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born 1932)[16]
- 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)[17]
March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)[18]
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 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)
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

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[19]

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
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
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 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

References

Janet Giltrow; Dieter Stein (2009). Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 90-272-5433-8.
"Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner" (Press release). BBC. 10 March 2005. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
Library Journal. Library Journal. 2005. p. 17.
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.
Ludo Abicht (2008). Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities. Leuven University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-90-5867-672-6.
"Entertainment Weekly "Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2005)"". 27 April 2005. Archived from the original on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries. BRILL. 1 November 2012. p. 149. ISBN 978-90-04-24186-2.
Inti. Department of Romance and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut. 2004. p. 327.
Sien Uytterschout, Kristaan Versluys (May 15, 2008). "Melancholy and Mourning in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Orbis Litterarum. 63 (3): 216–236. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00927.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson Company. 2006. p. 936.
Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.
"Max Velthuijs". The Independent. 29 January 2005. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
AP. "Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER – Today.com". Today.com. Retrieved January 11, 2009.
"Citizen Thompson — Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud"". The Smoking Gun. September 8, 2005. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
Claire Colvin (10 March 2005). "Alice Thomas Ellis". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
"Andre Norton". The Independent. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
Stanley Reynolds (7 April 2005). "Saul Bellow". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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[1] Janet Giltrow; Dieter Stein (2009). Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 90-272-5433-8.

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

[3] Library Journal. Library Journal. 2005. p. 17.

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

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

[6] Ludo Abicht (2008). Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities. Leuven University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-90-5867-672-6.

[7] "Entertainment Weekly "Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2005)"". 27 April 2005. Archived from the original on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2008.

[8] The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries. BRILL. 1 November 2012. p. 149. ISBN 978-90-04-24186-2.

[9] Inti. Department of Romance and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut. 2004. p. 327.

[10] Sien Uytterschout, Kristaan Versluys (May 15, 2008). "Melancholy and Mourning in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Orbis Litterarum. 63 (3): 216–236. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00927.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[11] Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson Company. 2006. p. 936.

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

[13] "Max Velthuijs". The Independent. 29 January 2005. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

[14] AP. "Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER – Today.com". Today.com. Retrieved January 11, 2009.

[15] "Citizen Thompson — Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud"". The Smoking Gun. September 8, 2005. Retrieved October 13, 2008.

[16] Claire Colvin (10 March 2005). "Alice Thomas Ellis". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

[17] "Andre Norton". The Independent. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

[18] Stanley Reynolds (7 April 2005). "Saul Bellow". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

[19] Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012

2005 in literature

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction