2005 in literature

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

EventsEdit

February 25 – Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.<ref>BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014</ref>
August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New booksEdit

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FictionEdit

Tariq Ali – A Sultan in Palermo<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 Deception<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 Close<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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
- Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
- Labyrinth of Evil
Mike McCormack – Notes from a Coma<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)
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 peopleEdit

David Almond – Clay<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 21</ref>
Charlie Jane Anders – Choir Boy
Jackie French – They Came on Viking Ships
Jonathon Scott Fuqua – King of the Pygmies
John Green – Looking for Alaska<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 246</ref>
Charlie Higson – SilverFin<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 274</ref>
Julius Lester – The Old African
Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel
Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 492</ref>
Rick Riordan – The Lightning Thief<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 449</ref>
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 264-265</ref>
Lemony Snicket – The Penultimate Peril<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's Gate<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 557</ref>
Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books)
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 652</ref>

DramaEdit

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

PoetryEdit

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Carol Ann Duffy – Rapture

Non-fictionEdit

Matthew Bortolin – The Dharma of Star Wars
Edwin Bryant – Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history
Francis Chalifour – After<ref>Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.</ref>
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

FilmsEdit

DeathsEdit

January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
January 15
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)Template:Cn
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974)Template:Cn
January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)<ref>

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February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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- 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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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)

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2005 in literature

Contents

EventsEdit

New booksEdit

FictionEdit

Children and young peopleEdit

DramaEdit

PoetryEdit

Non-fictionEdit

FilmsEdit

DeathsEdit

AwardsEdit

AustraliaEdit

CanadaEdit

SwedenEdit

United KingdomEdit

United StatesEdit

OtherEdit

See alsoEdit

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