2005 in literature

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

Events[]

  • January 16 – This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote in Spain.
  • February 25Canada 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[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Carol Ann DuffyRapture

Non-fiction[]

  • Svetlana AlexievichVoices from Chernobyl (Чернобыльская молитва, Chernobyl Prayer)
  • Matthew Bortolin – The Dharma of Star Wars
  • Edwin BryantIndo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history
  • Francis ChalifourAfter[18]
  • Jung Chang & Jon HallidayMao: The Unknown Story
  • Theodore DalrympleOur Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
  • Michel DéonHorseman, Pass By! (Cavalier, passe ton chemin!)
  • Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  • Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking
  • Amir-Abbas FakhravarStill, the Scraps of Prison (هنوز هم؛ ورق پاره های زندان)
  • Robert FiskThe Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
  • Randy Grim – Miracle Dog
  • John GroganMarley & Me
  • Michael Gross740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
  • Adam HochschildBury the Chains
  • Tom HollandPersian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
  • Tony JudtPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
  • W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Blue Ocean Strategy
  • Lawrence M. KraussHiding in the Mirror
  • Mark LevinMen In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America
  • Alexander MastersStuart: A Life Backwards
  • Azadeh MoaveniLipstick Jihad
  • Peter C. NewmanThe Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
  • Lisa RandallWarped Passages
  • Jean RaspailEn Canot sur les chemins d'eau du Roi (By boat through the royal waterways)
  • Paul A. Robinson – Queer Wars
  • Michael Ruhlman and – Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing
  • James S. Shapiro1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
  • Masamune ShirowGhost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
  • Rebecca SolnitA Field Guide to Getting Lost
  • David SouthwellSecrets and Lies
  • James B. StewartDisneyWar
  • Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (encyclopedia)

Deaths[]

  • January 4Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946)
  • January 7Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)
  • January 14Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)
  • January 15
    • Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)
    • Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)
  • January 19K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide, born 1974)
  • January 20Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921)
  • January 21
    • John L. Hess, American journalist and critic (born 1917)
    • Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (born 1907)
  • January 24Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933)
  • January 25Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator (born 1923)[19]
  • January 29Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
  • February 10Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)[20]
  • February 11Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
  • February 20Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)[21]
  • February 21Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929)
  • February 25Phoebe Hesketh, English poet (born 1909)
  • March 7Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929)
  • March 8
    • Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born 1932)[22]
    • Anna Haycraft, English novelist (born 1932)
  • March 10Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (born 1917)
  • March 17Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (born 1912)[23]
  • March 22Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
  • March 30Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
  • April 5Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)[24]
  • April 7Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)
  • April 26Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (born 1917)
  • May 7Tristan Egolf, American novelist (suicide, born 1971)
  • June 9Hovis Presley, English poet (heart attack, born 1960)
  • June 10Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (cancer, born 1948)
  • June 14Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (born 1923)
  • June 16Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (born 1905)
  • June 20Larry Collins, American novelist (born 1929)
  • June 22William Donaldson, English satirist (born 1935)
  • June 27Shelby Foote, American novelist (born 1916)
  • June 28Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (born 1932)
  • June 30Christopher Fry, English dramatist (born 1907)
  • July 6
    • Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926)
    • Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913)
  • July 7Gustaf Sobin, American poet (born 1935)
  • July 17Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (born 1924)
  • July 19Edward Bunker, American crime writer (born 1933)
  • August 9Judith Rossner, American novelist (born 1935)
  • August 16William Corlett, English author and playwright (born 1938)
  • August 21Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born 1036)
  • August 29Sybil Marshall, English novelist (born 1913)
  • September 3R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (born 1913)
  • September 26Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (born 1934)[25]
  • September 27
    • Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927)
    • Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918)
  • October 2August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945)
  • October 17Ba Jin (巴金), Chinese novelist (born 1904)
  • October 31Amrita Pritam, Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born 1919)
  • November 1Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (born 1915)
  • November 2Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
  • November 4Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (born 1932)
  • November 5John Fowles, English writer (born 1926)
  • November 21Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (born 1907)
  • November 26Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1923)
  • December 1Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
  • December 2Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (born 1925)
  • December 9Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (born 1928)
  • December 15Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (born 1914)
  • December 16Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (born 1921)

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize in Literature: Harold Pinter
  • Camões Prize: Lygia Fagundes Telles

Australia[]

Canada[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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
  • : Allison Hedge Coke, Off-Season City Pipe

Other[]

See also[]

Notes[]

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

References[]

  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. ^ Inti. Department of Romance and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut. 2004. p. 327.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson Company. 2006. p. 936.
  12. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 21
  13. ^ "04 Charlie Bone And The Castle Of Mirrors by Jenny Millward". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  14. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 492
  15. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 449
  16. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 264-265
  17. ^ Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.
  18. ^ Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.
  19. ^ "Max Velthuijs". The Independent. 29 January 2005. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  20. ^ AP. "Playwright Arthur Miller dies at age 89 – THEATER". Today.com. Retrieved January 11, 2009.
  21. ^ "Citizen Thompson — Police report of death scene reveals gonzo journalist's "rosebud"". The Smoking Gun. September 8, 2005. Retrieved October 13, 2008.
  22. ^ Claire Colvin (10 March 2005). "Alice Thomas Ellis". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  23. ^ "Andre Norton". The Independent. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  24. ^ Stanley Reynolds (7 April 2005). "Saul Bellow". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  25. ^ "Obituary: Helen Cresswell". the Guardian. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  26. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012
  27. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 661
  28. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 658
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