2005 in literature

Events

February 25 - Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
Ian Fleming Publications launches two new series of novels based upon its James Bond franchise. The Young Bond series, focusing on the character as a teenager, begins with SilverFin by Charlie Higson, while Samantha Weinberg (writing as Kate Westbrook), launches The Moneypenny Diaries with the first novel, The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel focusing on the longtime supporting character Miss Moneypenny.
400th anniversary of Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote.

New books

New drama

Lemkin's House - Catherine Filloux

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)
January 15 - Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (b. 1920)
January 19 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
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 7 - Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (b. 1964)
April 26 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917)
May 7 - Tristan Egolf, American novelist (b. 1971)
June 9 - Hovis Presley, English poet (b. 1960)
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 23 - Paddy Kitchen, English novelist and biographer (b. 1934)
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

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