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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.^[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

Films

Deaths

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

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 ^[35]

Sweden

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and Ryōji Arai ^[36]

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 ^[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

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

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

Notes

Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

↑ 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.
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 21
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 246
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 274
↑ "04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 492
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 449
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 264-265
↑ Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.
↑ Hahn 2015, p. 557
↑ 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

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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 978-90-272-5433-7.

[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] 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 .

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

[11] Hahn 2015, p. 21

[12] Hahn 2015, p. 246

[13] Hahn 2015, p. 274

[14] "04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved 20 January 2022.

[15] Hahn 2015, p. 492

[16] Hahn 2015, p. 449

[17] Hahn 2015, p. 264-265

[18] Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.

[19] Hahn 2015, p. 557

[20] Hahn 2015, p. 652

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

[22] Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (19 January 2005). "Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, dies at 58". The New York Times.

[23] 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.

[24] 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.

[25] Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (January 16, 2005). "Elizabeth Janeway, 91, Critic, Novelist and an Early Feminist, Is Dead". New York Times. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

[26] "Roland Mushat Frye". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

[27] "Max Velthuijs". The Independent. 29 January 2005. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 20 January 2021.

[28] AP (11 February 2005). "Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER". Today.com. Retrieved January 11, 2009.

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

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

[31] "Andre Norton". The Independent. 8 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

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

[33] Helon Habila (27 April 2005). "Yvonne Vera". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2023.

[34] "Obituary: Helen Cresswell". the Guardian. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2022.

[35] 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

[36] Hahn 2015, p. 653

[37] Hahn 2015, p. 661

[38] Hahn 2015, p. 658

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2005 in literature

Contents

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction