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The year 2005 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Poetry
6 Deaths
7 Awards
8 See also

Events

400th anniversary of Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote.
February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.

New books

New drama

Catherine Filloux - Lemkin's House
Oleg Kagan - The Black Hat
Carlos Lacamara - Nowhere on the Border
The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble - Wounded
Vincent Woods - A Cry from Heaven

Non-fiction

Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story
Jared Diamond - Collapse
David Ellyard - Who Discovered What When
John Grogan - Marley & Me
Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards
Azadeh Moaveni - Lipstick Jihad
Peter C. Newman - The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Masamune Shirow - Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
James B. Stewart - DisneyWar
Jane Smiley - Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Binod Bihari Verma - Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya Biography of Shriram Sharma Acharya

Poetry

Main article: 2005 in poetry

Deaths

January 7 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
January 14 - Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (b. 1922)
January 15
- Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (b. 1913)
- Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (b. 1920)
January 19 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974) (suicide)
January 21 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (b. 1907)
January 24 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (b. 1933)
January 25 - Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator
January 29 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
February 10 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
February 11 - Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (b. 1944)
February 21 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
February 25 - Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (b. 1909)
March 7 - Willis Hall, English playwright (b. 1929)
March 8 - Anna Haycraft, English novelist (b. 1932)
March 17 - Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (b. 1912)
March 22 - Anthony Creighton, English playwright (b. 1922)
March 30 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
April 5 - Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (b. 1915)
April 7 - Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (b. 1964) (meningitis)
April 26 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917)
May 7 - Tristan Egolf, American novelist (b. 1971) (suicide)
June 9 - Hovis Presley, English poet (b. 1960) (heart attack)
June 14 - Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (b. 1923)
June 16 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (b. 1905)
June 20 - Larry Collins, American novelist (b. 1929)
June 22 - William Donaldson, English satirist (b. 1935)
June 27 - Shelby Foote, American novelist (b. 1916)
June 28 - Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (b. 1932)
June 30 - Christopher Fry, English dramatist (b. 1907)
July 6
- Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (b. 1913)
- Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
July 7 - Gustaf Sobin, American poet (b. 1935)
July 17 - Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (b. 1924)
July 19 - Edward Bunker, American crime writer (b. 1933)
August 9 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
August 21 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
August 29 - Sybil Marshall, English novelist (b. 1913)
September 3 - R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (b. 1913)
September 26 - Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (b. 1934)
September 27
- Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (b. 1918)
- Ronald Pearsall, English writer (b. 1927)
October 2 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
October 17 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (b. 1904)
November 1 - Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (b. 1915)
November 2 - Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
November 3 - Robert Waller, English poet, (b. 1913)
November 4 - Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (b. 1932)
November 5 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
November 26 - Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
December 1 - Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist
December 2 - Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (b. 1925)
December 9 - Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (b. 1928)
December 15 - Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (b. 1914)
December 16 - Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature: Harold Pinter

Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke, (poetry) Off-Season City Pipe

Elsewhere

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Edward P. Jones - The Known World
Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres: Patti Smith

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