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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''2005'''.
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==Events==
*[[February 25]] – [[Canada Reads]] selects ''[[Rockbound]]'' by [[Frank Parker Day]] as the novel to be read across the nation.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Janet Giltrow|author2=Dieter Stein|title=Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo3X2Y1nrZUC&pg=PA100|year=2009|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-90-272-5433-7|pages=100}}</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>{{Cite press release |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/03_march/10/who_davies_gardner.shtml |title=Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner |publisher=BBC |date=10 March 2005 |access-date=23 November 2013}}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – The [[Grande Bibliothèque]] at the [[Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]] is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.<ref>{{cite book|title=Library Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pz3hAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Library Journal|page=17}}</ref>
*[[June 13]] – The poet [[Dannie Abse]] is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5217658.stm 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>{{Cite web |url=http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01224 |title=National Library of Norway |access-date=2 January 2017 |work=The European Library}}</ref>

==New books==
{{See also|2005 in books}}

===Fiction===
*[[Tariq Ali]] – ''A Sultan in Palermo''<ref>{{cite book|author=Ludo Abicht|title=Islam & Europe: Challenges and Opportunities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPlsRF7s7-gC&pg=PT188|year=2008|publisher=Leuven University Press|isbn=978-90-5867-672-6|pages=188}}</ref>
*[[Rajaa Alsanea]] – ''[[Girls of Riyadh]]'' (بنات الرياض, ''Banat al-Riyadh'')
*[[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]] – ''Never Mind''
*[[Tash Aw]] – ''[[The Harmony Silk Factory]]''
*[[Steve Aylett]] – ''Lint''
*[[Doreen Baingana]] – ''[[Tropical Fish (book)|Tropical Fish]]'' (short stories)
*[[John Banville]] – ''[[The Sea (novel)|The Sea]]''
*[[Sebastian Barry]] – ''[[A Long Long Way]]''
*[[Nelson S. Bond|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 (novel)|''No Country for Old Men'']]
*[[Rita Chowdhury]] – ''[[Deo Langkhui]]''
*[[Wendy Coakley-Thompson]] – ''[[What You Won't Do for Love (novel)|What You Won't Do for Love]]''
*[[Eoin Colfer]] – ''[[Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ew.com/article/2009/08/01/artemis-fowl-opal-deception/ |title=Entertainment Weekly "Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (2005)" |access-date=17 June 2008 |date=27 April 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528173110/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C1052618%2C00.html |archive-date=28 May 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Bernard Cornwell]] – ''[[The Pale Horseman]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQczAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|date=1 November 2012|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-24186-2|pages=149}}</ref>
*[[Colin Cotterill]] – ''[[Thirty-Three Teeth]]''
*[[Robert Crais]] – ''[[The Forgotten Man (Robert Crais novel)|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 (novel)|Towelhead]]''
*[[Steve Erickson]] – ''Our Ecstatic Days''
*[[Sebastian Faulks]] – ''[[Human Traces]]''
*[[Amanda Filipacchi]] – ''[[Love Creeps]]''
*[[Jonathan Safran Foer]] – ''[[Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Sien Uytterschout |author2=Kristaan Versluys | title = Melancholy and Mourning in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close| journal = Orbis Litterarum | volume = 63| issue = 3 | pages = 216–236 | date = May 15, 2008 | doi=10.1111/j.1600-0730.2008.00927.x| doi-access = free}}</ref>
*[[Nicci French]] – ''[[Catch Me When I Fall (novel)|Catch Me When I Fall]]''
*[[Gayleen Froese]] – ''Touch''
*[[Cornelia Funke]] – ''[[Inkspell]]''
*[[David Gibbins]] – ''[[Atlantis (novel)|Atlantis]]''
*[[Kate Grenville]] – ''[[The Secret River]]'' (Melbourne)
*[[Abdulrazak Gurnah]] – ''[[Desertion (novel)|Desertion]]''
*[[Margaret Peterson Haddix]] – ''[[Among the Enemy]]''
*[[Joanne Harris]] – ''[[Gentlemen & Players]]''
*[[Carl Hiaasen]] – ''[[Flush (novel)|Flush]]''
*[[Charlie Higson]] – ''[[SilverFin]]''
*[[Peter Hobbs (novelist)|Peter Hobbs]] – ''The Short Day Dying''
*[[John Irving]] – ''[[Until I Find You]]''
*[[Kazuo Ishiguro]] – ''[[Never Let Me Go (novel)|Never Let Me Go]]''
*[[Uzodinma Iweala]] – ''[[Beasts of No Nation]]''
*[[Raymond Khoury]] – ''[[The Last Templar]]''
*[[Stephen King]] – ''[[The Colorado Kid]]''
*[[Dean Koontz]] – ''[[Velocity (novel)|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 story collection)|A Thousand Years of Good Prayers]]'' (short stories)
*[[James Luceno]]
**''[[Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader]]''
**''[[Labyrinth of Evil]]''
*[[Mike McCormack (writer)|Mike McCormack]] – ''[[Notes from a Coma]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=Book Review Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TsOAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=936}}</ref>
*[[Ian McEwan]] – ''[[Saturday (novel)|Saturday]]''
*[[Elizabeth McKenzie]] &ndash; ''[[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 (Meyer novel)|Twilight]]''
*[[David Michaels (author)|David Michaels]] – ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda]]''
*[[Robert Muchamore]]
**''[[Maximum Security (novel)|Maximum Security]]''
**''[[The Killing (novel)|The Killing]]''
*[[Péter Nádas]] – ''[[Parallel Stories]]''
*[[Garth Nix]] – ''[[Drowned Wednesday]]''
*[[Chuck Palahniuk]] – ''[[Haunted (Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]''
*[[Christopher Paolini]] – ''[[Eldest]]''
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[School Days (novel)|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 (novel)|Misfortune]]''
*[[Olen Steinhauer]] – ''36 Yalta Boulevard''
*[[Matthew Stover]] – ''[[Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (novel)|Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''
*[[Thomas Sullivan (author)|Thomas Sullivan]] – ''[[Second Soul]]''
*Jean-François Susbielle – ''La Morsure du dragon''
*[[Vikas Swarup]] – ''[[Q & A (novel)|Q & A]]''
*[[Rupert Thomson]] – ''[[Divided Kingdom]]''
*[[Harry Turtledove]] (editor) – ''[[The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp]]''
*[[Andrew Vachss]] – ''[[Andrew Vachss#Other novels|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 (Weber novel)|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]] – ''[[Clay (novel)|Clay]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 21</ref>
*[[Charlie Jane Anders]] – ''[[Choir Boy (novel)|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]] – ''[[Children of the Red King#The Castle of Mirrors|Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward |url=https://www.penguin.com.au/books/04-charlie-bone-and-the-castle-of-mirrors-9781741660784 |website=www.penguin.com.au |access-date=20 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[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 (Reeve novel)|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>{{cite book |last1=Olson |first1=Danel |title=21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7728-3 |page=523 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 |language=en}}</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>

===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 (playwright)|Peter Morris]] – ''[[Guardians (play)|Guardians]]''
*[[Vern Thiessen]] – ''[[Shakespeare's Will (play)|Shakespeare's Will]]''
*[[Laura Wade]]
**''[[Colder Than Here]]''
**''[[Breathing Corpses]]''
*[[Vincent Woods]] – ''[[A Cry from Heaven]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|2005 in poetry}}
*[[Carol Ann Duffy]] – ''Rapture''

===Non-fiction===
*Matthew Bortolin &ndash; ''[[The Dharma of Star Wars]]''
*[[Edwin Bryant (author)|Edwin Bryant]] – ''Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history''
*[[Francis Chalifour]] – ''[[After (Chalifour book)|After]]''<ref>Goodreads, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665090.After ''After'']</span>, 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 (American writer)|Michael Gross]] – ''[[740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building]]''
*James Whitney Hicks - ''[[50 Signs of Mental Illness|50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health]]''
*[[Adam Hochschild]] – ''[[Bury the Chains]]''
*[[Tom Holland (author)|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 &ndash; ''[[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 (manga)|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 (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''
* ''[[Oliver Twist (2005 film)|Oliver Twist]]''
* ''[[Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|Pride & Prejudice]]''
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Humphrey Carpenter]], English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born [[1946 in literature|1946]])<ref>{{cite news|author=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/19/books/19carpenter.html |title=Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, dies at 58|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 January 2005}}</ref>
*[[January 7]] – [[Pierre Daninos]], French novelist (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])<ref>{{cite web|authorlink=James Kirkup|first=James|last=Kirkup|title=Pierre Daninos, Creator of Major Thompson, the typical Englishman in France|date=11 January 2005|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pierre-daninos-14381.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pierre-daninos-14381.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=[[The Independent (newspaper)|The Independent]]}}</ref>
*[[January 14]] – [[Charlotte MacLeod]], American mystery writer (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])<ref>{{Cite news | last = Oliver | first = Myrna | title = Charlotte MacLeod, 82; Author of 'Cozy' Mysteries, Juvenile Books | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | pages = B9 | date = January 19, 2005 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-19-me-macleod19-story.html | accessdate = February 13, 2011 | archive-date = July 27, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190727121346/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-19-me-macleod19-story.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
*[[January 15]]
**[[Walter Ernsting]], German science fiction author (born [[1920 in literature|1920]]){{cn|date=September 2024}}
**[[Elizabeth Janeway]], American feminist author (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/obituaries/elizabeth-janeway-91-critic-novelist-and-an-early-feminist-is.html#:~:text=feminist-is|title=Elizabeth Janeway, 91, Critic, Novelist and an Early Feminist, Is Dead|date=January 16, 2005|author=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|website=New York Times|access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
*[[January 19]] – [[K. Sello Duiker]], South African novelist (suicide; born [[1974 in literature|1974]]){{cn|date=September 2024}}
*[[January 20]] – [[Roland Frye]], American theologian and critic (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/roland-mushat-frye|title=Roland Mushat Frye|website=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
*[[January 21]]
**[[John L. Hess]], American journalist and critic (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
**[[Theun de Vries]], Dutch writer and poet (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[January 24]] – [[Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko|Vladimir Savchenko]], Ukrainian science fiction writer (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[January 25]] – [[Max Velthuijs]], Dutch writer and illustrator (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-velthuijs-5345000.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-velthuijs-5345000.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription|title=Max Velthuijs|date=29 January 2005|website=The Independent|access-date=20 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[January 29]] – [[Ephraim Kishon]], Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Arthur Miller]], American playwright (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>
{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/playwright-arthur-miller-dies-age-89-wbna6953165|title=Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER |publisher=Today.com|access-date=January 11, 2009|last=AP|date=11 February 2005 }}</ref>
*[[February 11]] – [[Jack L. Chalker]], American science fiction writer (born [[1944 in literature|1944]])
*[[February 20]] – [[Hunter S. Thompson]], American writer, creator of [[Gonzo journalism]] (born [[1937 in literature|1937]])<ref>{{cite web | title = Citizen Thompson&nbsp;— Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud"  | url = http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/citizen-thompson | publisher = [[The Smoking Gun]] | date = September 8, 2005 | access-date = October 13, 2008}}</ref>
*[[February 21]] – [[Guillermo Cabrera Infante]], Cuban novelist (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Phoebe Hesketh]], English poet (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
*[[March 7]] – [[Willis Hall]], English playwright (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])
*[[March 8]]
**[[Alice Thomas Ellis]], English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/10/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries|title=Alice Thomas Ellis|author=Claire Colvin|date=10 March 2005|website=The Guardian|access-date=20 January 2021}}</ref>
**[[Anna Haycraft]], English novelist (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[March 10]] – [[Patience Gray]], English cookery and travel writer (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[March 17]] – [[Andre Norton]], American science fiction writer (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Andre Norton |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andre-norton-529308.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |website=The Independent |date=8 October 2011 |access-date=18 June 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] – [[Anthony Creighton]], English playwright (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[March 30]] – [[Robert Creeley]], American poet (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Saul Bellow]], Canadian writer (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{cite web|url=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.|title=Saul Bellow|date= 7 April 2005|author=Stanley Reynolds|website=The Guardian|access-date=20 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[April 7]] – [[Yvonne Vera]], Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born [[1964 in literature|1964]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/27/guardianobituaries.books|title=Yvonne Vera|date=27 April 2005|author=Helon Habila|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Augusto Roa Bastos]], Paraguayan novelist (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Tristan Egolf]], American novelist (suicide, born [[1971 in literature|1971]])
*[[June 9]] – [[Hovis Presley]], English poet (heart attack, born [[1960 in literature|1960]])
*[[June 10]] – [[Nick Darke]], Cornish playwright (cancer, born [[1948 in literature|1948]])
*[[June 14]] – [[Norman Levine]], Canadian short story writer (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])
*[[June 16]] – [[Enrique Laguerre]], Puerto Rican novelist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[June 20]] – [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], American novelist (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])
*[[June 22]] – [[William Donaldson]], English satirist (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Shelby Foote]], American novelist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[June 28]] – [[Philip Hobsbaum]], Scottish poet and critic (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Christopher Fry]], English dramatist (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[July 6]]
**[[Evan Hunter]], American novelist (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])
**[[Claude Simon]], French Nobel laureate in literature (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[July 7]] – [[Gustaf Sobin]], American poet (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[July 17]] – [[Gavin Lambert]], English novelist and biographer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
*[[July 19]] – [[Edward Bunker]], American crime writer (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Judith Rossner]], American novelist (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[August 16]] – [[William Corlett]], English author and playwright (born [[1938 in literature|1938]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Dahlia Ravikovitch]], Israeli poet (born [[1936 in literature|1036]])
*[[August 29]] – [[Sybil Marshall]], English novelist (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[September 3]] – [[R. S. R. Fitter]], English nature writer (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[September 26]] – [[Helen Cresswell]], English children's writer (born [[1934 in literature|1934]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Helen Cresswell |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/sep/29/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries |website=the Guardian |access-date=10 January 2022 |language=en |date=29 September 2005}}</ref>
*[[September 27]]
**[[Ronald Pearsall]], English writer (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
**[[Mary Lee Settle]], American novelist (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[October 2]] – [[August Wilson]], American playwright (born [[1945 in literature|1945]])
*[[October 17]] – [[Ba Jin]] (巴金), Chinese novelist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[October 31]] – [[Amrita Pritam]], Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born [[1919 in literature|1919]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Michael Thwaites]], Australian poet (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[November 2]] – [[Gordon A. Craig]], Scottish historian
*[[November 4]] – [[Michael G. Coney]], Canadian science-fiction writer (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[November 5]] – [[John Fowles]], English writer (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*[[November 21]] – [[Aileen Fox]], English archaeologist (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[November 26]] – [[Stan Berenstain]], American children's writer and illustrator (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])
*[[December 1]] – [[Mary Hayley Bell]], dramatist
*[[December 2]] – [[Christine Pullein-Thompson]], English novelist (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[December 9]] – [[Robert Sheckley]], American short story writer (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[December 15]] – [[Julián Marías]], Spanish philosopher and author (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Kenneth Bulmer]], English novelist and short story writer (born [[1921 in literature|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]], {{proper name|''<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 (writer)|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]]''<ref>Faculty of Arts, 2005, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11308 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001114855/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11308 |date=2012-10-01 }}</span>, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>

===Sweden===

*[[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]]: [[Philip Pullman]] and [[Ryōji Arai]]<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 653</ref>

===United Kingdom===
*[[Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting]] (first award): [[Duncan Macmillan (playwright)|Duncan Macmillan]], ''Monster''
*[[Caine Prize for African Writing]]: [[S. A. Afolabi]], "Monday Morning"
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Mal Peet]], ''[[Tamar (novel)|Tamar]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 661</ref>
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Jane Duran]], [[Christopher Logue]], [[M. R. Peacocke]], [[Neil Rollinson]]
*[[Commonwealth Writers Prize]]: [[Andrea Levy]], ''[[Small Island (novel)|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 (poet)|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 (novel)|Saturday]]''
*[[Man Booker International Prize]] (first award): [[Ismail Kadare]]
*[[Man Booker Prize]]: [[John Banville]], ''[[The Sea (novel)|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 (writer)|Justin Hill]], ''Passing Under Heaven''; [[Maggie O'Farrell]], ''[[The Distance Between Us]]''
*[[Whitbread Book Awards|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 (poet)|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]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 658</ref>
*[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]]: to [[The March (novel)|The March]] by [[E.L. Doctorow]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[John Patrick Shanley]], ''[[Doubt (play)|Doubt: A Parable]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Marilynne Robinson]], ''[[Gilead (novel)|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 (writer)|John Keene]] (fiction/poetry)
:Plays: [[Rinne Groff]]
:Poetry: [[Thomas Sayers Ellis]], [[Ilya Kaminsky]], [[Dana Levin (poet)|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]], ''[[:de:Es geht uns gut|Es geht uns gut]]'' (We Are Doing Fine)
*Commander of the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]: [[Patti Smith]]

==See also==
*[[List of years in literature]]
*[[Literature]]
*[[Poetry]]
*[[List of literary awards]]
*[[List of poetry awards]]
*[[2005 in Australian literature]]

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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{{Year in literature article categories}}

[[Category:2005-related lists]]