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

Events

  • February 25 - Canada Reads
    Canada Reads
    Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC.-Overview:During Canada Reads, five personalities champion five different books, each champion extolling the merits of one of the titles. The debate is broadcast over a series...

     selects Rockbound
    Rockbound
    Rockbound is a novel published in 1928 by Canadian writer Frank Parker Day.-Overview:The "Rockbound" mentioned in the title is an island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Surrounded by rich but dangerous fishing grounds, Rockbound is isolated by storms, fog and winter weather...

     by Frank Parker Day
    Frank Parker Day
    Frank Parker Day was a Canadian athlete, academic and author....

     as the novel to be read across the nation.
  • 400th anniversary of Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote.

New prose fiction books

  • Tariq Ali
    Tariq Ali
    Tariq Ali , , is a British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator...

     - A Sultan in Palermo
  • Rajaa Alsanea - Banat al-Riyadh
    Girls of Riyadh
    Girls of Riyadh, or Banat al-Riyadh, is a novel by Rajaa Alsanea. The book, written in the form of e-mails, recounts the personal lives of four young Saudi girls, Lamees, Michelle , Gamrah, and Sadeem.-Plot summary:...

  • Avi
    Edward Irving Wortis
    Edward Irving Wortis , better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.- Biography :...

     - Never Mind
  • John Banville
    John Banville
    John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...

     - The Sea
    The Sea (novel)
    - Plot summary:The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult....

  • Sebastian Barry
    Sebastian Barry
    Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year....

     - A Long Long Way
    A Long Long Way
    A Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry set during the First World War. The protagonist Willie Dunne leaves Dublin to fight for the Allies as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers...

  • Nelson Bond
    Nelson S. Bond
    Nelson Slade Bond was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage....

     - Other Worlds Than Ours
    Other Worlds Than Ours
    Other Worlds Than Ours is a collection of science fiction short stories by Nelson Bond. It was released in 2005 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 2,000 copies. It was the author's third book published by Arkham House...

  • Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...

    , What We All Long For
  • Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

     - Magic Street
    Magic Street
    Magic Street is an urban fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. This book follows the magical events in the Baldwin Hills section of contemporary Los Angeles, including the life of protagonist Mack Street, his foster brother Cecil Tucker, a trickster identified variously as Bag Man, Puck, Mr...

     and Shadow of the Giant
    Shadow of the Giant
    Shadow of the Giant is the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series.-Plot summary:A belief is spreading in conquered China that the government has lost the Mandate of Heaven. Han Tzu meets up with Mazer Rackham, who passes him a blow dart pen, calling it the "Mandate of Heaven"...

  • Rita Chowdhury
    Rita Chowdhury
    Dr. Rita Chowdhury is an established poet, novelist and also Sahitya Akademi Award recipient in the world of Assamese literature. She is presently working as a Senior Lecturer in Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam in Political Science Department...

     - Deo Langkhui
    Deo Langkhui
    Deo Langkhui is an Assamese novel written by Dr Rita Chowdhury. The book unveils some important aspects of then contemporary Tiwa society and also a series of their customs and traditions. The novel is based on historical evidence of then Tiwa kingdom, but the main protagonist is the royal lady...

  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson
    Wendy Coakley-Thompson
    Wendy Coakley-Thompson , is a mainstream fiction author. Coakley-Thompson's work is part of emerging millennial contemporary African American literature...

     - What You Won't Do For Love
    What You Won't Do For Love
    What You Won't Do For Love is a 2005 novel, the second book by author Wendy Coakley-Thompson. The title for the book was inspired by the Bobby Caldwell hit of the same name...

  • Eoin Colfer
    Eoin Colfer
    Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...

     - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
    Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
    Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception is a teen fantasy novel published in 2005, the 4th book in the Artemis Fowl series by the Irish author Eoin Colfer...

  • Bernard Cornwell
    Bernard Cornwell
    Bernard Cornwell OBE is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films.-Biography:...

     - The Pale Horseman
    The Pale Horseman
    The Pale Horseman is a novel by Bernard Cornwell, based in 9th Century Wessex and Cornwall, and is the second book in his The Saxon Stories series. The book is the sequel to The Last Kingdom, and starts where that tale left off...

  • Colin Cotterill
    Colin Cotterill
    Colin Cotterill is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr...

     - Thirty-Three Teeth
    Thirty-Three Teeth
    Thirty-Three Teeth is a crime novel by British author Colin Cotterill and published in 2005 by Soho Press, New York . It won the 2006 Dilys Award.-Plot summary:...

  • Robert Crais
    Robert Crais
    Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...

     - The Forgotten Man
    The Forgotten Man (Robert Crais novel)
    The Forgotten Man is a 2005 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the tenth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award....

  • Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:...

     - Specimen Days
    Specimen Days
    Specimen Days is a 2005 novel by American writer Michael Cunningham. It contains three stories: one that takes place in the past, one in the present, and one in the future. Each of the three stories depicts three central, semi-consistent character-types: a young boy, a man, and a woman...

  • Lindsey Davis
    Lindsey Davis
    Lindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...

     - See Delphi and Die
    See Delphi and Die
    -Plot introduction:Set in Rome and Greece between September and October AD 76, See Delphi and Die stars Marcus Didius Falco, Informer and Imperial Agent. It is the seventeenth in her Falco series...

  • Abha Dawesar - Babyji
    Babyji
    Babyji is a novel by Abha Dawesar first published in 2005. Set in 1980s Delhi, India, it recounts the coming of age and the sexual adventures and fantasies of a 16-year-old bespectacled schoolgirl, the only child of a Brahmin family...

  • L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp
    Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...

     - Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
    Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
    Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp is a 2005 collection of short stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp edited by Mark L. Olson and illustrated by Bob Eggleton, published in hardcover by NESFA Press....

  • Troy Denning
    Troy Denning
    Troy Denning is a fantasy and science fiction author and game designer.-Career:Denning joined TSR as a game designer in 1981, and was promoted a year later to Manager of Designers, before he moved to the book department...

     - The Joiner King
    The Joiner King
    The Joiner King is a novel set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It is the first book in the Dark Nest trilogy of novels by Troy Denning. It is set 35 years after the Battle of Yavin...

    , The Swarm War
    The Swarm War
    The Swarm War is a novel set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It is the third and final book in Troy Denning's Dark Nest Trilogy. The book is set 35 years after the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.-Plot:...

     and The Unseen Queen
    The Unseen Queen
    The Unseen Queen is a novel set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It is the second book in the Dark Nest trilogy by Troy Denning. It is set 35 years after the Battle of Yavin...

  • Bret Easton Ellis
    Bret Easton Ellis
    Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 different languages. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney...

     - Lunar Park
    Lunar Park
    Lunar Park is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis with elements of faux autobiography and pastiche. It was released by Knopf on August 16, 2005. It is notable for being the first book written by Ellis to use past tense narrative.-Plot summary:...

  • Alicia Erian
    Alicia Erian
    -Biography:Alicia Erian was born 1967 in Syracuse, New York to an Egyptian father and American mother of Polish descent. She received a B.A. in English from SUNY Binghamton and a M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College. A writer of short stories, some of her work has appeared in Zoetrope and the...

     - Towelhead
  • Sebastian Faulks
    Sebastian Faulks
    -Early life:Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and Pamela . Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks, is his older brother. He was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire...

     - Human Traces
    Human Traces
    Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. The novel took Faulks five years to write...

  • Amanda Filipacchi
    Amanda Filipacchi
    Amanda Filipacchi is an American writer best known for her humorous, inventive, and controversial novels.Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages and has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and around the world.-Writing career:...

     - Love Creeps
    Love Creeps
    Love Creeps is the third novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Korean....

  • Nicci French
    Nicci French
    Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together.-Personal life:...

     - Catch Me When I Fall
  • Gayleen Froese
    Gayleen Froese
    Gayleen Froese is a mystery novelist and singer/songwriter from Western Canada. Her first novel, Touch, was published by Edmonton's NeWest Press in 2005. The sequel, "Grayling Cross" was published by NeWest Press in 2011.Froese was educated at Ryerson University in Toronto and currently lives in...

     - Touch
  • David Gibbins
    David Gibbins
    David Gibbins is a Canadian-born underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist.-Biography:He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to English parents who were both academic scientists. He travelled around the world with them by sea as a boy, including four years living in New Zealand,...

     - Atlantis
    Atlantis
    Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

  • Joanne Harris
    Joanne Harris
    Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author.Biography=Born to a French mother and an English father in her grandparents' sweet shop, her family life was filled with food and folklore. Her great-grandmother had an odd reputation and enjoyed letting the gullible think she was a witch and healer...

     - Gentlemen & Players
    Gentlemen & Players
    Gentlemen & Players is a novel by Joanne Harris first published in 2005. Set in the present during Michaelmas term at St Oswald's, an elite public school for boys somewhere in the North of England, the book is a psychological suspense novel about mysterious goings-on at the school which, as the...

  • Carl Hiaasen
    Carl Hiaasen
    Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist and novelist.- Early years :Born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, of Norwegian heritage, Hiaasen was the first of four children and the son of a lawyer, Kermit Odel, and teacher, Patricia...

     - Flush
    Flush (novel)
    Flush is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2005, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida. It is his second young adult novel, after Hoot. The plot is similar to Hoot but it doesn't have the same cast and is not a continuation.-Plot:...

  • Charlie Higson
    Charlie Higson
    Charles Murray Higson , more commonly known as Charlie Higson - also Switch - is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer...

     - SilverFin
    SilverFin
    SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. It was written by Charlie Higson and released in the UK on March 3, 2005 by Puffin Books in conjunction with a large marketing campaign; a Canadian release of the same...

  • John Irving
    John Irving
    John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...

     - Until I Find You
    Until I Find You
    Until I Find You is the eleventh published novel by John Irving. Up until ten months before publication, this novel was originally written in first person...

  • Kazuo Ishiguro
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Kazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...

     - Never Let Me Go
  • Uzodinma Iweala
    Uzodinma Iweala
    Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...

     - Beasts of No Nation
    Beasts of No Nation
    Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala.The novel follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in an unnamed West African country...

  • Raymond Khoury
    Raymond Khoury
    Raymond Khoury is a screenwriter and novelist, best known as the author of the 2006 New York Times Bestseller The Last Templar.-Early years:...

     - The Last Templar
    The Last Templar
    The Last Templar is a 2005 novel by Raymond Khoury, and also is his debut work. The novel was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 22 months.-Back story:...

  • Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

     - The Colorado Kid
    The Colorado Kid
    The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel written by Stephen King for the Hard Case Crime imprint, published in 2005. The book was issued in one paperback-only edition by the specialty crime and mystery publishing house. The third-person narrative concerns the investigation of the body of an...

  • Dean Koontz
    Dean Koontz
    Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...

     - Velocity
    Velocity (novel)
    Velocity is a novel by Dean Koontz first published in 2005. Set in Napa County, California, it is about a man in his thirties who takes the law into his own hands when, out of the blue, he is threatened by an anonymous adversary....

  • Stieg Larsson
    Stieg Larsson
    Karl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...

     - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an award-winning crime novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the "Millennium series"....

  • Marina Lewycka
    Marina Lewycka
    Marina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Sheffield, England.-Biography:Marina Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family subsequently moved to England where she now lives...

     - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a novel by Marina Lewycka, first published in 2005 by Viking .The novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005/6, and was short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, losing to...

  • James Luceno
    James Luceno
    James Luceno is The New York Times bestselling author of three Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels, Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial, Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse and The Unifying Force....

     - Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
    Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
    Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader is a novel set in the Star Wars universe, written by James Luceno, that was published by Del Rey on November 22, 2005...

     and Labyrinth of Evil
    Labyrinth of Evil
    Labyrinth of Evil is a 2005 novel by James Luceno set in the fictional Star Wars universe. The events of this novel occur just before Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, overlapping with the events of the second season of Star Wars: Clone Wars.-Summary:On the planet Cato Neimoidia, Jedi...

  • Stephenie Meyer
    Stephenie Meyer
    Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...

     - Twilight
    Twilight (novel)
    Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire,...

  • Ian McEwan
    Ian McEwan
    Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....

     - Saturday
    Saturday (novel)
    Saturday is a novel by Ian McEwan set in Fitzrovia, London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, during a large demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of chores and pleasures culminating in a family dinner in the...

  • Gregory Maguire
    Gregory Maguire
    Gregory Maguire is an American writer. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children...

     - Son of a Witch
    Son of a Witch
    Son of a Witch is a fantasy novel written by Gregory Maguire. The book is Maguire’s fifth revisionist story and the second set in the land of Oz originally conceived by L. Frank Baum. It is a sequel to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West...

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Gabriel García Márquez
    Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

     - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez....

  • David Michaels
    David Michaels
    David Michaels is a pseudonym for the authors of novels in the Splinter Cell, EndWar, H.A.W.X , and Ghost Recon series, all of which were created by Ubisoft Entertainment and developed under Ubisoft's Tom Clancy license...

     - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda is a 2005 novel in the Splinter Cell series and a sequel to the 2004 novel Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. Both novels were written by Raymond Benson under the pseudonym David Michaels...

  • Robert Muchamore
    Robert Muchamore
    Robert Kilgore Muchamore is an English author, most notable for writing the CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novels.-Prior to writing:...

     - Maximum Security (novel) and The Killing (novel)
  • Péter Nádas
    Péter Nádas
    Péter Nádas is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.- Biography :He was born in Budapest as the son of László Nádas and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hungarian Nazis, the Arrow Cross Party on 15 October 1944, Klára Tauber escaped with her son to Bačka and Novi Sad, but returned...

     - Parallel Stories
    Parallel Stories
    Parallel Stories is a 2005 novel in three volumes by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas. It comprises the installments The Silent Province , In the Depths of the Night , and A Breath of Freedom . The narrative portrays Hungary during the 20th century. The novel took 18 years to write...

  • Chuck Palahniuk
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...

     - Haunted
  • Christopher Paolini
    Christopher Paolini
    Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...

     - Eldest
    Eldest
    Eldest is the second book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and the sequel to Eragon. Eldest was first published in hardcover on August 23, 2005, and was released in paperback in September 2006. Eldest has been released in an audiobook format, and as an ebook. Like Eragon, Eldest...

  • Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker
    Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s; a series of TV movies based on the character were also...

     - School Days
    School Days (novel)
    School Days School Days is a work of detective fiction by American author Robert B. Parker, the thirty-third in his acclaimed Spenser series.-Synopsis:...

  • Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Rendell
    Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

     - End in Tears
    End in Tears
    End in Tears is a novel by English crime writer Ruth Rendell, the twentieth in her acclaimed Inspector Wexford series.-Synopsis:When a lump of concrete is thrown from a bridge and into passing traffic one dark night, the wrong motorist dies...

  • J. K. Rowling
    J. K. Rowling
    Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...

     - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series by British author J. K. Rowling...

  • Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
    Shalimar the Clown
    Shalimar the Clown is a 2005 novel written by Salman Rushdie, who also wrote The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children.Shalimar the Clown was published in September 2005 and has attracted significant attention, comparable to his earlier publications, particularly The Moor's Last Sigh and...

  • Darren Shan
    Darren Shan
    Darren O'Shaughnessy , who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish author. Darren Shan is also the main character in Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan young-adult fiction series. He also wrote The Demonata series as well as the stand-alone books, Koyasan and The Thin Executioner...

     - Lord Loss
    Lord Loss
    Lord Loss is the first novel in the fictional Demonata series book by best-selling teenage horror author Darren Shan. It was originally published in the UK on 6 June 2005. Soon after, it appeared in Japan and America, where Shan's previous series, The Saga of Darren Shan, had sold millions...

     (first of The Demonata
    The Demonata
    The Demonata is a series of books by best selling author Darren Shan. It deals with the world of demons . The series is told by three different protagonists: Grubbs Grady, Kernel Fleck, and Bec MacConn, the latter of which is the first female protagonist in a Darren Shan book...

     series)
  • Michael Slade
    Michael Slade
    Michael Slade is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity. Before Clarke entered law school, his undergraduate studies focused on history...

     - Swastika
  • Lemony Snicket
    Lemony Snicket
    Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler . Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional...

     - The Penultimate Peril
    The Penultimate Peril
    The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.-Plot:The book starts off where The Grim Grotto left off...

  • David Southwell
    David Southwell
    David Southwell is the author of a number of best-selling books on conspiracy theories and organized crime. He has also written scripts for Independent British comic books.- Biography :...

     - Secrets and Lies
  • Olen Steinhauer
    Olen Steinhauer
    Olen Steinhauer is an American novelist who authored The Tourist, a New York Times Best Seller.- Life :Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and grew up in Virginia. He attended university at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and The University of Texas, Austin...

     - 36 Yalta Boulevard
  • Matthew Stover
    Matthew Stover
    Matthew Woodring Stover is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is perhaps best known for his four Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon...

     - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
    Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (novel)
    Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is a novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith written by Matthew Stover and published on April 2, 2005 by Del Rey Books....

  • Thomas Sullivan - Second Soul
  • Jean-François Susbielle
    Jean-François Susbielle
    Jean-François Susbielle is a French author and specialist in geopolitics and geoeconomics. He was born in Paris on September 29, 1954 and graduated in engineering from the Ecole des Mines and in international affairs from the Paris Political Sciences Institute . He now works as a consultant in...

     - La Morsure du dragon
  • Rupert Thomson
    Rupert Thomson
    -Biography:Following the sudden death of his mother, Rupert Thomson was educated as a boarder at Christ's Hospital School. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. He worked for four years as a...

     - Divided Kingdom
    Divided Kingdom
    Divided Kingdom is a novel by British author Rupert Thomson. It was first published in Britain by Bloomsbury in April 2005 and then in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2005.-Introduction:...

  • Harry Turtledove
    Harry Turtledove
    Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...

    , editor - The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
    The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
    The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp is a 2005 gedenkschrift honoring science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, in the form of an anthology of short stories edited by Harry Turtledove. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books...

  • Andrew Vachss
    Andrew Vachss
    Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...

     - Two Trains Running
  • Michal Viewegh
    Michal Viewegh
    Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.His...

     - Lekce tvůrčího psaní
    Lekce tvůrčího psaní
    Lekce tvůrčího psaní is a Czech novel, written by Michal Viewegh. It was first published in 2005....

  • David Weber
    David Weber
    David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs"....

     - At All Costs
    At All Costs
    -Plot summary:Due to the actions of the High Ridge government in War of Honor, which led to a successful attack on key Alliance shipyards by the Republic of Haven, the Star Kingdom of Manticore finds itself decidedly on the short end of the strategic balance between the two warring star nations...

  • Samantha Weinberg
    Samantha Weinberg
    Samantha Fletcher is a British Green politician, and under her maiden name of Samantha Weinberg, a novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth and...

     - The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
    The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
    The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel is the first in a planned trilogy of novels chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The diaries were authored by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's...

  • Garth Nix
    Garth Nix
    Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the...

     - Drowned Wednesday
    Drowned Wednesday
    Drowned Wednesday is the third book in the The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. This book was released in February 2005. Drowned Wednesday is afflicted with the deadly sin of gluttony.-Plot summary:...

  • Kirby Wright
    Kirby Wright
    Kirby Wright is an American writer best known for his coming of age island novel PUNAHOU BLUES and the epic novel "MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA," which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother...

     - Punahou Blues
  • Catherynne M. Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...

     - Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
    Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
    Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams is a novel about a woman living as a hermit in ancient Japan written by Catherynne M. Valente.-Plot summary:After her village is destroyed, Ayako lives alone in the mountains...


New drama

  • Catherine Filloux
    Catherine Filloux
    Catherine Filloux is a French-Algerian-American playwright. She has received awards from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the O'Neill, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, and the Asian Cultural Council. In 2003 she was a Fullbright Senior Specialist in playwriting in Cambodia.Filloux's plays...

     - Lemkin's House
  • Oleg Kagan
    Oleg Kagan
    Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber partnerships with the likes of pianist Sviatoslav Richter and cellist Natalia Gutman. He was also a significant proponent of modern music, in particular Berg's Violin Concerto...

     - The Black Hat
  • Carlos Lacamara
    Carlos Lacamara
    Carlos Lacámara , sometimes credited as Carlos Lacamara or Carlos LaCamara, is a Cuban-born American actor and playwright who has had a long career on American television, making his first appearance in 1983 on the sitcom Family Ties...

     - Nowhere on the Border
    Nowhere on the Border
    Nowhere on the Border is a one-act play written by American playwright Carlos Lacamara in response to the Immigration conflict. It was first performed in 2005.-Plot synopsis:...

  • The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble
    The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble
    The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble is a theatre troupe based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2004 by a group of actors, designers and directors including artistic director Tom Burmester...

     - Wounded
    Wounded
    Wounded may refer to:* The Wounded, a Dutch wave-rock band* "The Wounded" , a fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation* "Wounded ", a song by the American rock band Third Eye Blind...

  • Vern Thiessen
    Vern Thiessen
    Vern Thiessen is a Canadian playwright.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thiessen studied at the University of Winnipeg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree.Thiessen currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta and was...

     - Shakespeare's Will
  • Vincent Woods
    Vincent Woods
    Vincent Woods is an Irish poet and playwright. He currently hosts The Arts Show on RTÉ Radio 1.-His life:Woods was born in County Leitrim. Woods lived in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia and worked as a journalist with Raidió Teilifís Éireann until 1989. Woods' radio play, The...

     - A Cry from Heaven
    A Cry from Heaven
    A Cry from Heaven is a play by Irish playwright Vincent Woods. It retells the story of the beautiful Deirdre and the Sons of Usna which is one of the great tragedies of Irish myth. The birth of a girl heralded by omens of a vulture-shrouded sky begins the drama of King Conchobar mac Nessa and his...


Non-fiction

  • Joan Didion
    Joan Didion
    Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...

     - The Year of Magical Thinking
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion , is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne . Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature...

  • Tony Judt
    Tony Judt
    Tony Robert Judt FBA was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute...

     - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
  • Jung Chang
    Jung Chang
    Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China....

     & Jon Halliday
    Jon Halliday
    Jon Halliday is a historian of Russia and was a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.Halliday authored a biography of filmmaker Douglas Sirk and has written and edited seven other books. He and his wife, Jung Chang, live in Notting Hill, West London...

     - Mao: The Unknown Story
    Mao: The Unknown Story
    Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong written by the husband and wife team of writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, and depicts Mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.In conducting their research...

  • Jared Diamond
    Jared Diamond
    Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA...

     - Collapse
  • John Grogan
    John Grogan (journalist)
    John Grogan is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. His memoir Marley & Me was a best-selling book about his family's dog Marley.- Career :...

     - Marley & Me
    Marley & Me
    Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is a New York Times bestselling autobiographical book by journalist John Grogan, published in 2005, about the thirteen years he and his family shared their life, home, and heart with Marley, a possibly neurotic, and certified "untrainable",...

  • Alexander Masters
    Alexander Masters
    Alexander Masters is an author, screenwriter, and worker with the homeless. He lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady. He was educated at Bedales School, and took a first in physics from King's College London...

     - Stuart: A Life Backwards
    Stuart: A Life Backwards
    Stuart: A Life Backwards is a book by Alexander Masters, the biography of Stuart Shorter. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal and violent, living homeless on the streets of Cambridge...

  • Azadeh Moaveni
    Azadeh Moaveni
    - Education :Moaveni grew up in San Jose, California, and studied politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She won a Fulbright Fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.- Career :...

     - Lipstick Jihad
    Lipstick Jihad
    Lipstick Jihad is Iranian-American writer Azadeh Moaveni's first book, published on February 4, 2005.The book tells the story of her first-person experiences in Iran where she worked as a reporter after living in the United States her whole life...

  • Peter C. Newman
    Peter C. Newman
    Peter Charles Newman, CC, CD is a Canadian journalist and writer.Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His father, Oscar, was a self-made wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, where he was...

     - The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
  • Masamune Shirow
    Masamune Shirow
    is an internationally renowned manga artist, born on November 23, 1961.Masamune Shirow is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two theatrical anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie, and...

     - Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
    Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
    is a six chapter manga that was originally released in 11 separate issues, written and drawn by Masamune Shirow. It was first released in Japan in a serialized format in Young Magazine by Kodansha. The same publisher later collected these works with significant changes into the limited SOLID BOX...

  • James B. Stewart
    James B. Stewart
    James Bennett Stewart is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.-Life and career:Stewart was born in Quincy, Illinois. A graduate of DePauw University and Harvard Law School, James B. Stewart is a member of the Bar of New York and Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the...

     - DisneyWar
    DisneyWar
    DisneyWar is an exposé of Michael Eisner's 20-year tenure as Chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company by James B. Stewart. The book chronicles the careers and interactions of executives at Disney, including Card Walker, Ron W. Miller, Roy E...

  • Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam
    Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam
    Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam is a state-sponsored encyclopedia that was published in 2005. It also is the first state encyclopedia of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam...

     (encyclopedia)
  • Binod Bihari Verma
    Binod Bihari Verma
    Binod Bihari Verma was a Maithili littérateur by soul, medical doctor by profession and a defence officer by career. He is most noted for his pioneering work on Panjis, which are ancient genealogical charts, Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan. He is also known for his depiction of rural...

     - Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya
    Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya
    Vedmurti Taponishth Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya is the biography of Shriram Sharma Acharya,an Indian seer, sage, a visionary of the New Golden Era and the Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, in Maithili written by Binod Bihari Verma, published in 2005.-Overview:This volume, contains a short...

     Biography of Shriram Sharma Acharya
    Shriram Sharma Acharya
    Shriram Sharma was an Indian seer, sage, a prominent philosopher, a visionary of the New Golden Era, and the Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, which has its headquarters at Shantikunj, Haridwar....

  • Theodore Dalrymple - Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
    Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
    Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses is a 2005 non-fiction book by British physician and writer Theodore Dalrymple. It is composed of twenty-six separate pieces that cover a wide range of topics from drug legalization to the influence of Shakespeare...


Spirituality

  • Michael Laitman - Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume 2
  • Michael Laitman - The Science of Kabbalah

Deaths

  • January 7 - Pierre Daninos
    Pierre Daninos
    Pierre Daninos was a French writer and humorist.Daninos wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France, and were witty collections of...

    , French novelist (b. 1913)
  • January 14 - Charlotte MacLeod
    Charlotte MacLeod
    - Life and work :Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1922, Charlotte MacLeod emigrated to the United States in 1923, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. She attended the Art Institute of Boston. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she worked as a copy writer for Stop and Shop...

    , American mystery writer (b. 1922)
  • January 15
    • Elizabeth Janeway
      Elizabeth Janeway
      Elizabeth Janeway was an American author and critic.Born Elizabeth Ames Hall in Brooklyn, New York, her naval architect father and homemaker mother fell on hard times during the Depression, leading her to end her Swarthmore College education and help support the family by creating bargain basement...

      , American feminist author (b. 1913)
    • Walter Ernsting
      Walter Ernsting
      Walter Ernsting was a German science fiction and fantasy author who mainly published under the pseudonym Clark Darlton.-Biography:...

      , German science fiction author (b. 1920)
  • January 19 - K. Sello Duiker
    K. Sello Duiker
    Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, , was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book written by an African writer...

    , South African novelist (b. 1974) (suicide)
  • January 21 - Theun de Vries
    Theun de Vries
    Theunis Uilke de Vries , was a Dutch writer and poet.- Life :De Vries was born in the Frisian town of Veenwouden. His parents moved to Apeldoorn in 1920. In 1936 he joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands and a year later he moved to Amsterdam to pursue a career in journalism...

    , Dutch writer and poet (b. 1907)
  • January 24 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (b. 1933)
  • January 25 - Max Velthuijs
    Max Velthuijs
    Max Velthuijs was a Dutch painter, illustrator and author. He was one of the most famous children's illustrators in the Netherlands. In 2004 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrators....

    , Dutch writer and illustrator
  • January 29 - Ephraim Kishon
    Ephraim Kishon
    ' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...

    , Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • February 10 - Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller
    Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

    , American playwright (b. 1915)
  • February 11 - Jack L. Chalker
    Jack L. Chalker
    Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time...

    , American science fiction writer (b. 1944)
  • February 20 - Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...

    , American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism
    Gonzo journalism
    Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative. The word "gonzo" is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style...

     (b. 1937)
  • February 21 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965...

    , Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
  • February 25 - Phoebe Hesketh
    Phoebe Hesketh
    Phoebe Hesketh, , was an English poet from Lancashire notable for her poems depicting nature.-Life and writing:...

    , British poet (b. 1909)
  • March 7 - Willis Hall
    Willis Hall
    Willis Hall was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class roots in Leeds for much of his writings....

    , English playwright (b. 1929)
  • March 8 - Anna Haycraft
    Anna Haycraft
    Anna Haycraft was a British writer and essayist who wrote under the nom de plume Alice Thomas Ellis...

    , English novelist (b. 1932)
  • March 17 - Andre Norton
    Andre Norton
    Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...

    , American science fiction writer (b. 1912)
  • March 22 - Anthony Creighton
    Anthony Creighton
    Anthony Creighton , a British actor and writer, is best known as the co-author of the play Epitaph for George Dillon with John Osborne....

    , English playwright (b. 1922)
  • March 30 - Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

    , American poet (b. 1926)
  • April 5 - Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...

    , Canadian writer (b. 1915)
  • April 7 - Yvonne Vera
    Yvonne Vera
    Yvonne Vera was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past...

    , Zimbabwean novelist (b. 1964) (meningitis)
  • April 26 - Augusto Roa Bastos
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Augusto Roa Bastos, was a noted Paraguayan novelist and short story writer, and one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor...

    , Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917)
  • May 7 - Tristan Egolf
    Tristan Egolf
    Tristan Egolf was an American novelist, author, and political activist.- Early life :Egolf was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. His father, Brad Evans, was a National Review journalist and his mother, Paula, a painter. His younger sister is American actress Gretchen Egolf...

    , American novelist (b. 1971) (suicide)
  • June 9 - Hovis Presley
    Hovis Presley
    Hovis Presley was an English poet and stand-up comedian from Bolton noted for his down to earth humour.Born as Richard Henry McFarlane, he attended Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton and went on to graduate from Bradford University...

    , English poet (b. 1960) (heart attack)
  • June 14 - Norman Levine
    Norman Levine
    Norman Levine was a Canadian short-story writer, novelist and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for his terse prose. Though he was part of the St. Ives artistic community in Cornwall, and friends with painters Patrick Heron and Francis Bacon, his written expression was not abstract, but concrete...

    , Canadian short story writer (b. 1923)
  • June 16 - Enrique Laguerre
    Enrique Laguerre
    Enrique Arturo Laguerre Vélez was a Nobel literature prize nominee, teacher and critic from Moca, Puerto Rico...

    , Puerto Rican novelist (b. 1905)
  • June 20 - Larry Collins
    Larry Collins (writer)
    Larry Collins, born John Lawrence Collins Jr., , was an American writer.-Life:...

    , American novelist (b. 1929)
  • June 22 - William Donaldson
    William Donaldson
    Charles William Donaldson was an English satirist, writer, playboy and, under the pseudonym of Henry Root, author of The Henry Root Letters.-Life and career:...

    , English satirist (b. 1935)
  • June 27 - Shelby Foote
    Shelby Foote
    Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the...

    , American novelist (b. 1916)
  • June 28 - Philip Hobsbaum
    Philip Hobsbaum
    Philip Dennis Hobsbaum was a British teacher, poet and critic.-Life:Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis...

    , Scottish poet and critic (b. 1932)
  • June 30 - Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry
    Christopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...

    , English dramatist (b. 1907)
  • July 6
    • Claude Simon
      Claude Simon
      Claude Simon was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France....

      , French Nobel laureate in literature (b. 1913)
    • Evan Hunter
      Evan Hunter
      Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952...

      , American novelist (b. 1926)
  • July 7 - Gustaf Sobin
    Gustaf Sobin
    Gustaf Sobin was a U.S.-born poet and author who spent most of his adult life in France. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962...

    , American poet (b. 1935)
  • July 17 - Gavin Lambert
    Gavin Lambert
    Gavin Lambert was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who lived for part of his life in Hollywood...

    , English novelist and biographer (b. 1924)
  • July 19 - Edward Bunker
    Edward Bunker
    Edward Heward Bunker was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films....

    , American crime writer (b. 1933)
  • August 9 - Judith Rossner
    Judith Rossner
    Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best...

    , American novelist (b. 1935)
  • August 21 - Dahlia Ravikovitch
    Dahlia Ravikovitch
    -Biography:Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 27, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Russian-born Jewish engineer who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious...

    , Israeli poet (b. 1936)
  • August 29 - Sybil Marshall
    Sybil Marshall
    Sybil Marshall was a British writer, teacher and educationalist.As a teacher in a one-room school in Cambridgeshire during the 1940s, Marshall developed teaching methods based on integrating subjects and encouraging children's creativity...

    , English novelist (b. 1913)
  • September 3 - R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (b. 1913)
  • September 26 - Helen Cresswell
    Helen Cresswell
    Helen Cresswell was an English author of more than 100 children's books, including the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga...

    , English children's writer (b. 1934)
  • September 27
    • Mary Lee Settle
      Mary Lee Settle
      Mary Lee Settle was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie...

      , American novelist (b. 1918)
    • Ronald Pearsall
      Ronald Pearsall
      Ronald Joseph Pearsall, was a writer whose scope included children's stories, pornography and fishing. - Biography :...

      , English writer (b. 1927)
  • October 2 - August Wilson
    August Wilson
    August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...

    , American playwright (b. 1945)
  • October 17 - Ba Jin
    Ba Jin
    Li Yaotang , courtesy name Feigan , is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin , Pa Chin, Li Fei-Kan, Li Pei-Kan, Pa Kin, allegedly taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin...

    , Chinese novelist (b. 1904)
  • November 1 - Michael Thwaites
    Michael Thwaites
    Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO was an Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist for Moral Rearmament.-Early life and education:...

    , Australian poet (b. 1915)
  • November 2 - Gordon A. Craig
    Gordon A. Craig
    Gordon Alexander Craig was a Scottish-American historian of German history and of diplomatic history.-Early life:...

    , Scottish historian
  • November 3 - Robert Waller, English poet, (b. 1913)
  • November 4 - Michael G. Coney
    Michael G. Coney
    Michael Greatrex Coney was a British science fiction writer who spent the later half of his life in Canada. Born in Birmingham, England on September 28, 1932, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1972...

    , Canadian science-fiction writer (b. 1932)
  • November 5 - John Fowles
    John Fowles
    John Robert Fowles was an English novelist and essayist. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Birth and family:...

    , English writer (b. 1926)
  • November 26 - Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
  • December 1 - Mary Hayley Bell
    Mary Hayley Bell
    Mary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills was an English actress, writer and dramatist.Mary Hayley Bell was born in Shanghai, China, where her father served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the family later moved to Tianjin . It was there that she first met John Mills, although exactly when is not...

    , dramatist
  • December 2 - Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (b. 1925)
  • December 9 - Robert Sheckley
    Robert Sheckley
    Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...

    , American short story writer (b. 1928)
  • December 15 - Julián Marías
    Julián Marías
    Julián Marías Aguilera , was a Spanish philosopher. His History of Philosophy is widely accepted as the greatest work written in Spanish on the subject of the history of philosophy...

    , Spanish philosopher and author (b. 1914)
  • December 16 - Kenneth Bulmer
    Kenneth Bulmer
    Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...

    , English novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)

Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
    The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
    The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35. The prize money, currently A$20,000, is the richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript in Australia...

    : Andrew T. O'Connor, Tuvalu
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
    C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
    The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J...

    : M. T. C. Cronin
    M. T. C. Cronin
    M. T. C. Cronin is a contemporary Australian poet, lawyer and academic.Cronin Lives in Conondale, Queensland, Australia on an organic farm specializing in fresh Spanish produce...

    , 1-100
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
    Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
    The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form...

    : Samuel Wagan Watson
    Samuel Wagan Watson
    Samuel Wagan Watson is a contemporary Indigenous Australian poet.Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane, his family is Irish, German, Bundjalung and Birri Gubba...

    , Smoke Encrypted Whispers
  • Miles Franklin Award
    Miles Franklin Award
    The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...

    : Andrew McGahan
    Andrew McGahan
    Andrew McGahan is a bestselling Australian novelist, best known for his cult first novel Praise, and for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel The White Earth.-Early life and education:...

    , The White Earth

Canada

  • Governor General's Award for English language fiction
    Governor General's Award for English language fiction
    This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English language fiction.-1930s:*1936: Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth*1937: Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver*1938: Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata...

    : David Gilmour
    David Gilmour (writer)
    David Gilmour is a Canadian novelist and television journalist.He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980, a post he held for four years. In 1986, he joined CBC Television as a film critic for The Journal, eventually becoming host of the program's Friday night...

    , A Perfect Night to Go to China
    A Perfect Night to Go to China
    A Perfect Night to Go to China is a novel by David Gilmour, published in 2005. It won the 2005 Governor General's Award for English language fiction....

  • Griffin Poetry Prize
    Griffin Poetry Prize
    The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....

    : Roo Borson
    Roo Borson
    Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia....

    , Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida and Charles Simic
    Charles Simic
    Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...

    , Selected Poems: 1963-2003
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel
    Hugo Award for Best Novel
    The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...

    : Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...

    , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and...

  • Scotiabank Giller Prize
    Scotiabank Giller Prize
    The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries...

    : David Bergen
    David Bergen
    David Bergen is a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has published six novels and one collection of short stories since 1993...

    , The Time in Between

United Kingdom

  • Carnegie Medal
    Carnegie Medal
    The Carnegie Medal is a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

     for children's literature
    Children's literature
    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

    : Mal Peet
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...

    , Tamar
    Tamar (novel)
    Tamar is a war novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published in 2005. Tamar won the Carnegie Medal in 2005 and a further award in 2007....

  • Cholmondeley Award
    Cholmondeley Award
    The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...

    : Jane Duran
    Jane Duran
    -Background:Duran was born to an American mother and a Spanish father who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil war. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work...

    , Christopher Logue
    Christopher Logue
    Christopher Logue, CBE is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He has also written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting in a number of films. His two screenplays are Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage...

    , M.R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson
    Neil Rollinson
    -Life:He studied at Newcastle University, but then moved to London.He was writer in residence at Wordworth’s Dove Cottage.He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.He tutors at the Arvon Centre.-Awards:...

  • Commonwealth Writers Prize: Andrea Levy
    Andrea Levy
    Andrea Levy is a British author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.-Identity and writings:...

    , Small Island
    Small Island
    Small Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009....

  • Dagger of Daggers
    Dagger of Daggers
    The Dagger of Daggers was a special award given in 2005 by the Crime Writers' Association to celebrate its 50th anniversary. All books that had previously won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year were eligible, and the purpose was to select "the best of the best"...

    : John le Carré
    John le Carré
    David John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...

    , The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carré, is a British Cold War spy novel that became famous for its portrayal of Western espionage methods as being morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values. The novel received critical acclaim at the time of its publication and became an...

     (1963)
  • Eric Gregory Award
    Eric Gregory Award
    The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....

    : Melanie Challenger, Carolyn Jess, Luke Kennard
    Luke Kennard
    Luke Kennard is a British poet, playwright and academic born in 1982.His first prose-poems collection - The Solex Brothers was published by Stride, and won him an Eric Gregory Award in 2005...

    , Jaim Smith
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards...

     for biography: Sue Prideaux
    Sue Prideaux
    Sue Prideaux, is an English novelist and biographer. She has strong links to Norway and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream...

    , Edvard Munch
    Edvard Munch
    Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...

    : Behind the Scream
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language and are Britain's oldest literary awards...

     for fiction: Ian McEwan
    Ian McEwan
    Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....

    , Saturday
    Saturday (novel)
    Saturday is a novel by Ian McEwan set in Fitzrovia, London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, during a large demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of chores and pleasures culminating in a family dinner in the...

  • Man Booker International Prize
    Man Booker International Prize
    The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation....

    : Ismail Kadare
    Ismail Kadare
    Ismail Kadare is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral...

  • Man Booker Prize
    Man Booker Prize
    The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...

    : John Banville
    John Banville
    John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...

    , The Sea
    The Sea (novel)
    - Plot summary:The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult....

  • Samuel Johnson Prize
    Samuel Johnson Prize
    The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is one of the most prestigious prizes for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award and based on an anonymous donation. The prize is named after Samuel Johnson...

    : Jonathan Coe
    Jonathan Coe
    Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name...

    , Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
  • Orange Prize for Fiction
    Orange Prize for Fiction
    The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year...

    : Lionel Shriver
    Lionel Shriver
    -Early life and education:Lionel Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a deeply religious family . At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given, and as a tomboy felt that a...

    , We Need to Talk About Kevin
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the perspective of the killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed...

  • Somerset Maugham Award
    Somerset Maugham Award
    The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus...

    : Justin Hill
    Justin Hill
    Justin Hill is an English novelist whose novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times. Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York....

    , Passing Under Heaven; Maggie O'Farrell
    Maggie O'Farrell
    Maggie O'Farrell is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels – the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives...

    , The Distance Between Us
  • Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Hilary Spurling
    Hilary Spurling
    Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL is a British writer, known as a journalist and biographer. She won the Whitbread Prize for the second volume of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006...

    , Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954

United States

  • Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
    Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
    The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A...

    : B.H. Fairchild
  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
    Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
    The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...

    : Rick Hilles
    Rick Hilles
    -Life:Rick Hilles was born in Canton, Ohio and grew up in North Canton , Ohio, where he attended North Canton Montessori before entering the public schools, receiving his diploma from Hoover High School....

    , Brother Salvage: Poems
  • Arthur Rense Prize
    Arthur Rense Prize
    The Arthur Rense Prize was established in 1998 when Paige Rense started the award of $20,000 in memory of her husband, the sportswriter and poet Arthur Rense. The prize is given triennially to an exceptional poet by the American Academy of Arts and Letters....

    : Daniel Hoffman
    Daniel Hoffman
    Daniel Gerard Hoffman is an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.-Biography:Hoffman was born in New York City...

  • Bollingen Prize for Poetry: Jay Wright
    Jay Wright (poet)
    Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim...

  • Brittingham Prize in Poetry
    Brittingham Prize in Poetry
    The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition.The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is selected by a nationally recognized poet, The winner is...

    : Susanna Childress, Jagged with Love
  • Compton Crook Award
    Compton Crook Award
    The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the...

    : Tamara Siler Jones
    Tamara Siler Jones
    Tamara Siler Jones is a writer of fantasy novels.Her first book, Ghosts in the Snow, won the Compton Crook Award in 2005. Her second, Threads of Malice, was nominated for the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.-Books:...

    , Ghosts in the Snow
  • Frost Medal
    Frost Medal
    The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $2,500....

    : Marie Ponsot
    Marie Ponsot
    Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily...

  • Hugo Award
    Hugo Award
    The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

    : Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Clarke
    Susanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...

    , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
    Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and...

  • National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    : W.S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems
  • Newbery Medal
    Newbery Medal
    The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...

    : Cynthia Kadohata
    Cynthia Kadohata
    Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for winning the 2005 Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986....

    , Kira-Kira
    Kira-Kira
    Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata. It won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia...

  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than the calendar year...

    : John Patrick Shanley
    John Patrick Shanley
    John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.-Life and career:...

    , Doubt: A Parable
    Doubt (play)
    Doubt: A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley. Originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004, the production transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in March 2005 and closed on July 2, 2006 after 525 performances and 25 previews...

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
    The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It originated as the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947.-1910s:...

    : Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson
    -Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D...

    , Gilead
    Gilead (novel)
    Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson and published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town...

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

    : Ted Kooser
    Ted Kooser
    Ted Kooser is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.-Early Life:...

    , Delights & Shadows
  • Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern
    Gerald Stern
    Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...

  • Whiting Writers' Award
    Whiting Writers' Award
    The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...

    s:
Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer.She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop...

, Nell Freudenberger
Nell Freudenberger
-Life:Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia.Her travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, Salon, The New Yorker, and The Telegraph Magazine. ...

, Seth Kantner
Seth Kantner
Seth Kantner is a writer who has attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska. His 2004 book Ordinary Wolves tells the story of Cutuk, a boy...

, John Keene
John Keene (writer)
John R. Keene Jr. is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University...

 (fiction/poetry)
Plays: Rinne Groff
Rinne Groff
-Biography:Groff was trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches.A founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company, she has been a part of the writing, staging, and performing of their shows since the company’s inception in...

Poetry: Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

, Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana...

, John Keene
John Keene (writer)
John R. Keene Jr. is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University...

 (fiction/poetry), Dana Levin, Spencer Reece
Spencer Reece
Spencer Reece is a poet who lives not in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York , and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School...

, Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is an African American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. About her most recent collection, Life on Mars , Joel Brouwer wrote: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition......

  • Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke
    Allison Hedge Coke
    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed Wendat/Huron/Metis/Tsalagi/ Creek/French Canadian/Portuguese/Irish/Scot/English ancestry.-Background:...

    , Off-Season City Pipe

Elsewhere

  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world...

    : Edward P. Jones
    Edward P. Jones
    Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:...

     - The Known World
    The Known World
    The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites...

  • Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
    Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
    The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...

    : Patti Smith
    Patti Smith
    Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....


See also

  • List of years in literature
  • Literature
    Literature
    Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

  • List of literary awards
  • List of poetry awards
  • 2005 in Australian literature
    2005 in Australian literature
    The year 2005 in Australian literature involves some significant new books, drama, poetry and events.For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.See also:2004 in Australian literature,2005 in Australia,...

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