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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005.
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Tariq Ali – A Sultan in Palermo[6]
- 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
- Rita Chowdhury – Deo Langkhui
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson – What You Won't Do for Love
- Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception[7]
- Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman[8]
- 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
- 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[9]
- 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
- Mike McCormack – Notes from a Coma[10]
- 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
- 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)
- Michael Slade – Swastika
- 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
[edit]- David Almond – Clay[11]
- Charlie Jane Anders – Choir Boy
- Jackie French – They Came on Viking Ships
- Jonathon Scott Fuqua – King of the Pygmies
- John Green – Looking for Alaska[12]
- Charlie Higson – SilverFin[13]
- Julius Lester – The Old African
- Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel
- Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors[14]
- 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[15]
- Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief[16]
- J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince[17]
- Lemony Snicket – The Penultimate Peril[18]
- Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
- Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's Gate[19]
- Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books)
- Markus Zusak – The Book Thief[20]
Drama
[edit]- 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
- Vincent Woods – A Cry from Heaven
Poetry
[edit]- Carol Ann Duffy – Rapture
Non-fiction
[edit]- Matthew Bortolin – The Dharma of Star Wars
- Edwin Bryant – Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history
- Francis Chalifour – After[21]
- 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
[edit]- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Oliver Twist
- Pride & Prejudice
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Deaths
[edit]- January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)[22]
- January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)[23]
- January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)[24]
- January 15
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)[citation needed]
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)[25]
- January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974)[citation needed]
- January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)[26]
- 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)[27]
- January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
- February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)[28]
- February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
- February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)[29]
- 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)[30]
- 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)[31]
- March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
- March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
- April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)[32]
- April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)[33]
- 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)[34]
- 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
[edit]Australia
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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[35]
Sweden
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- 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[37]
- 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
[edit]- 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[38]
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- List of years in literature
- Literature
- Poetry
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- 2005 in Australian literature
Notes
[edit]- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.
References
[edit]- ^ Janet Giltrow; Dieter Stein (2009). Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-90-272-5433-7.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson Company. 2006. p. 936.
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- ^ Hahn 2015, p. 652
- ^ Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.
- ^ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (19 January 2005). "Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, dies at 58". The New York Times.
- ^ Kirkup, James (11 January 2005). "Pierre Daninos, Creator of Major Thompson, the typical Englishman in France". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
- ^ Oliver, Myrna (January 19, 2005). "Charlotte MacLeod, 82; Author of 'Cozy' Mysteries, Juvenile Books". Los Angeles Times. pp. B9. Archived from the original on July 27, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (January 16, 2005). "Elizabeth Janeway, 91, Critic, Novelist and an Early Feminist, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "Roland Mushat Frye". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Max Velthuijs". The Independent. 29 January 2005. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ AP (11 February 2005). "Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER". 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. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ Stanley Reynolds (7 April 2005). "Saul Bellow". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ Helon Habila (27 April 2005). "Yvonne Vera". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "Obituary: Helen Cresswell". the Guardian. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2012-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012
- ^ Hahn 2015, p. 653
- ^ Hahn 2015, p. 661
- ^ Hahn 2015, p. 658