2005 in literature

none 2005 literature poetry 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.Janet Giltrow Dieter Stein Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo3X2Y1nrZUC&pg=PA100 2009 John Benjamins Publishing 978-90-272-5433-7 100 March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/03_march/10/who_davies_gardner.shtml Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner BBC 10 March 2005 23 November 2013 April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.Library Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=Pz3hAAAAMAAJ 2005 Library Journal 17 June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014 August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01224 National Library of Norway 2 January 2017 The European Library New books 2005 in books Fiction Tariq Ali – A Sultan in PalermoLudo Abicht Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities https://books.google.com/books?id=zPlsRF7s7-gC&pg=PT188 2008 Leuven University Press 978-90-5867-672-6 188 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 Deceptionhttps://ew.com/article/2009/08/01/artemis-fowl-opal-deception/ Entertainment Weekly "Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2005)" 17 June 2008 27 April 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20080528173110/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C1052618%2C00.html 28 May 2008 live Bernard Cornwell – The Pale HorsemanThe Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries https://books.google.com/books?id=OQczAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149 1 November 2012 BRILL 978-90-04-24186-2 149 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 CloseSien Uytterschout Kristaan Versluys Melancholy and Mourning in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Orbis Litterarum 63 3 216–236 May 15, 2008 10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00927.x free 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 Sharon Krum – The Thing About Jane Spring 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 ComaBook Review Digest https://books.google.com/books?id=2TsOAQAAMAAJ 2006 H. W. Wilson Company 936 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) 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 – ClayHahn 2015, p. 21 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 AlaskaHahn 2015, p. 246 Charlie Higson – SilverFinHahn 2015, p. 274 Julius Lester – The Old African Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward https://www.penguin.com.au/books/04-charlie-bone-and-the-castle-of-mirrors-9781741660784 www.penguin.com.au 20 January 2022 en 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 DevicesHahn 2015, p. 492 Rick Riordan – The Lightning ThiefHahn 2015, p. 449 J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHahn 2015, p. 264-265 Lemony Snicket – The Penultimate PerilOlson Danel 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7728-3 523 https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 en Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's GateHahn 2015, p. 557 Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books) Markus Zusak – The Book ThiefHahn 2015, p. 652 Drama 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 Colder Than Here Breathing Corpses Vincent Woods – A Cry from Heaven Poetry 2005 in poetry 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 – AfterGoodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23. 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)Christopher Lehmann-Haupt https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/books/19carpenter.html Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, dies at 58 The New York Times 19 January 2005 January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)James Kirkup James Kirkup Pierre Daninos, Creator of Major Thompson, the typical Englishman in France 11 January 2005 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pierre-daninos-14381.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pierre-daninos-14381.html 26 May 2022 subscription live The Independent January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922) Oliver Myrna Charlotte MacLeod, 82; Author of 'Cozy' Mysteries, Juvenile Books Los Angeles Times B9 January 19, 2005 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-19-me-macleod19-story.html February 13, 2011 July 27, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190727121346/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-19-me-macleod19-story.html live January 15 Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)September 2024 Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/obituaries/elizabeth-janeway-91-critic-novelist-and-an-early-feminist-is.html#:~:text=feminist-is Elizabeth Janeway, 91, Critic, Novelist and an Early Feminist, Is Dead January 16, 2005 Christopher Lehmann-Haupt New York Times 16 September 2024 January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974)September 2024 January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/roland-mushat-frye Roland Mushat Frye University of Pennsylvania 16 January 2024 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)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-velthuijs-5345000.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-velthuijs-5345000.html 2022-05-01 subscription Max Velthuijs 29 January 2005 The Independent 20 January 2021 January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924) February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)https://www.today.com/popculture/playwright-arthur-miller-dies-age-89-wbna6953165 Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER Today.com January 11, 2009 AP 11 February 2005 February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944) February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937) Citizen Thompson — Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud" http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/citizen-thompson The Smoking Gun September 8, 2005 October 13, 2008 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)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/10/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Alice Thomas Ellis Claire Colvin 10 March 2005 The Guardian 20 January 2021 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)Andre Norton https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html 2022-05-01 subscription The Independent 8 October 2011 18 June 2018 March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922) March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926) April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries#:~:text=The%20great%20and%20good%20and,literature%2C%20has%20died%20aged%2089.&text=That%20year%2C%20at%20the%20age,review%2C%20The%20Republic%20Of%20Letters. Saul Bellow 7 April 2005 Stanley Reynolds The Guardian 20 January 2021 April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/27/guardianobituaries.books Yvonne Vera 27 April 2005 Helon Habila The Guardian 22 November 2023 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)Obituary: Helen Cresswell https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/sep/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries the Guardian 10 January 2022 en 29 September 2005 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, <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 SecretFaculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award https://web.archive.org/web/20121001114855/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11308 2012-10-01 , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012 Sweden Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and Ryōji AraiHahn 2015, p. 653 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, TamarHahn 2015, p. 661 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-KiraHahn 2015, p. 658 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 Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith German Book Prize (first award): Arno Geiger, Es geht uns gut (We Are Doing Fine) Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Orhan Pamuk International Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones, The Known World See also List of years in literature Literature Poetry List of literary awards List of poetry awards 2005 in Australian literature Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em External links Popular Books of 2005 at Goodreads Published 2005 Books at Goodreads 2005 Books at Goodreads Category:2005-related lists