2005 in literature
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The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 - Magic Street and Shadow of the Giant Wendy Coakley-Thompson - What You Won't Do For Love Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Bernard Cornwell - The Pale Horseman Colin Cotterill - Thirty-Three Teeth 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 and The Unseen Queen Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park Alicia Erian - Towelhead Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces Amanda Filipacchi - Love Creeps 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 - Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and Labyrinth of Evil Ian McEwan - Saturday Gregory Maguire - Son of a Witch David Michaels - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted Christopher Paolini - Eldest Robert B. Parker - School Days 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 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Thomas Sullivan - Second Soul Jean-François Susbielle - La Morsure du dragon Rupert Thomson - Divided Kingdom Harry Turtledove, editor - The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp Andrew Vachss - Two Trains Running David Weber - At All Costs Samantha Weinberg - The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel Garth Nix - Drowned Wednesday Kirby Wright - Punahou Blues Doctor Charles Goodwin - Scout Shorts
[edit] New drama
Catherine Filloux - Lemkin's House Oleg Kagan - The Black Hat The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble - Wounded
[edit] Non-fiction
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story John Grogan - Marley & Me Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards Azadeh Moaveni - Lipstick Jihad Peter C. Newman - The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister Masamune Shirow - Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface James B. Stewart - DisneyWar Jane Smiley - Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Binod Bihari Verma - Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya Biography of Shriram Sharma Acharya
[edit] 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) 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) 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 MarÃas, Spanish philosopher and author (b. 1914) December 16 - Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 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: Ismail Kadare Man Booker Prize: John Banville - The Sea Samuel Johnson Prize: Jonathan Coe - Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS 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
[edit] 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 Hugo Award: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 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
Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke, (poetry) Off-Season City Pipe
[edit] Elsewhere
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones - The Known World Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith
