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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2005.

Events

January 16 - 400th anniversary of Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote in Spain.
February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
March 26 - Classic British science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.^[1]
April 23 - The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec's Grande Bibliothèque is opened.
June 13 - Poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan is killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.^[2]
August 15 - An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.

Deaths

January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913)
January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922)
January 15
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913)
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920)
January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide, born 1974)
January 20 – Roland 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 24 – Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933)
January 25 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator
January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924)
February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915)
February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944)
February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937)
February 21 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929)
February 25 – Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (born 1909)
March 7 – Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929)
March 8 – 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)
March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922)
March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926)
April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915)
April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964)
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 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
- Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913)
- Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926)
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)
September 27
- Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918)
- Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927)
October 2 – August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945)
October 17 – Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (born 1904)
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 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

Books

Fiction

Tariq Ali - A Sultan in Palermo
Rajaa Alsanea - Banat al-Riyadh
Avi - Never Mind
Tash Aw - The Harmony Silk Factory
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 and Shadow of the Giant
Rita Chowdhury - Deo Langkhui
Wendy Coakley-Thompson - What You Won't Do for Love
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Bernard Cornwell - The Pale Horseman
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 and The Unseen Queen
Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
Alicia Erian - Towelhead
Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces
Juan Francisco Ferré - La fiesta del asno
Amanda Filipacchi - Love Creeps
Nicci French - Catch Me When I Fall
Gayleen Froese - Touch
David Gibbins - Atlantis
Kate Grenville - The Secret River (Melbourne, Vic: Text Publishing)
Joanne Harris - Gentlemen & Players
Carl Hiaasen - Flush
Charlie Higson - SilverFin
John Irving - Until I Find You
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Uzodinma Iweala - Beasts of No Nation
Rabee Jaber - بيريتوس: مدينة تحت الأرض (Byretus Madinat Taht al-Ard, "Byretus Underground City")
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
James Luceno - Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and Labyrinth of Evil
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
Ian McEwan - Saturday
Kevin MacNeil - The Stornoway Way
Gregory Maguire - Son of a Witch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
David Michaels - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
Robert Muchamore - Maximum Security and 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
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
Darren Shan - Lord Loss (first of The Demonata series)
Michael Slade - Swastika
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Lemony Snicket - The Penultimate Peril
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
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

Drama

Catherine Filloux - Lemkin's House
debbie tucker green
- stoning mary
- generations
Oleg Kagan - The Black Hat
Carlos Lacamara - Nowhere on the Border
The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble - Wounded
Vern Thiessen - Shakespeare's Will
Laura Wade
- Colder Than Here
- Breathing Corpses
Vincent Woods - A Cry from Heaven

Non-fiction

Francis Chalifour - After^[4]
Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story
Theodore Dalrymple - Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Michel Déon - Cavalier, passe ton chemin!
Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Amir-Abbas Fakhravar - Still, the Scraps of Prison (هنوز هم؛ ورق پاره های زندان)
Robert Fisk - The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
John Grogan - Marley & Me
Tom Holland - Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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
Jean Raspail - En canot sur les chemins d'eau du Roi
James S. Shapiro - 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Masamune Shirow - Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
David Southwell - Secrets and Lies
James B. Stewart - DisneyWar
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References

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↑ BBC News - "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012
↑ Goodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23.

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[2] BBC News - "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014

[3] Faculty of Arts, 2005, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Coleman, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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

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