Literature year 2005

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

17th to 20th March: Leipzig Book Fair
14.-23. October: Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country Korea
The UNESCO collection of representative works will be discontinued after a total of 1060 translations have appeared.

Birthdays and memorial days

January 2: 100th birthday of Auguste Lechner , Austrian writer and author of young books († 2000)
January 2: 100th birthday of Max Niedermayer , German publisher and author († 1968)
January 3: 200th birthday of Ludwig Dindorf , German classical philologist († 1871)
January 6: 100th birthday of Eric Frank Russell , British writer († 1978)
January 8: 100th birthday of Carl Gustav Hempel , philosopher, student of logical positivism († 1997)
January 11: 100th birthday of Ellery Queen , American crime novelist († 1971)
January 14: 100th birthday of Kurt Ganske , German bookseller and publisher († 1979)
January 16: 100th birthday of Itō Sei , Japanese writer, translator and literary critic († 1969)
January 17th: 100th birthday of Artur Streiter , German writer and anarchist († 1946)
January 17: 400th birthday of Friedrich von Logau , Baroque poet († 1655)
January 23: 100th birthday of Jesse Thoor , German writer († 1952)
January 25: 100th birthday of Margery Sharp , English writer († 1991)
January 28: 200th anniversary of the death of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz , Hungarian poet (* 1773)
January 31: 100th birthday of John O'Hara , American writer († 1970)
February 2: 100th birthday of Ayn Rand , American writer († 1982)
February 3: 100th birthday of Albert K. Hömberg , German historian and author († 1963)
February 4: 200th birthday of James William Harrison Ainsworth , English author († 1882)
February 6: 100th birthday of Irmgard Keun , German writer († 1982)
February 7: 100th birthday of Paul Nizan , French novelist († 1940)
February 11: 100th anniversary of the death of Otto Erich Hartleben , German playwright, poet and narrator (* 1864)
March 24th: 100th anniversary of the death of Jules Verne , French writer (* 1828)
March 24: 100th birthday of Rudolf Otto Wiemer , German poet and educator († 1998)
March 26: 100th birthday of Václav Černý , Czech writer and translator († 1987)
March 26: 400th anniversary of the death of Jakob Ayrer , German writer (* around 1544)
April 2: 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen , Danish poet and writer († 1875)
April 7: 100th anniversary of the death of Robert de Bonnières , French writer (* 1850)
April 11: 100th birthday of Attila József , Hungarian poet († 1937)
April 21: 100th birthday of Ursula von Wiese , German-Swiss actress, translator and writer († 2002)
April 23: 200th birthday of Karl Rosenkranz , German philosopher and Hegel biographer († 1879)
April 24: 100th birthday of Robert Penn Warren , American writer and poet († 1989)
April 28: 200th birthday of Henri-Auguste Barbier , French writer († 1882)
May 2: 100th birthday of Charlotte Armstrong , American crime novelist († 1969)
May 11: 100th birthday of Grete Weiskopf , children's book author († 1966)
May 16: 100th birthday of Lothar Irle , Siegerland local history researcher and writer († 1974)
May 17th: 300th birthday of Ambrosius Stub , Danish poet († 1758)
May 20: 100th birthday of Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet († 1962)
May 21: 100th birthday of Annik Saxegaard , Norwegian writer († 1990)
May 24: 100th birthday of Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Scholochow , Soviet writer († 1984)
May 28: 100th anniversary of the death of Balduin Möllhausen , German traveler and writer (* 1825)
May 30: 100th anniversary of the death of Albert Ellmenreich , German actor and writer (* 1816)
June 18: 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Lingg , German poet (* 1820)
June 20: 100th birthday of Lillian Hellman , American writer († 1984)
June 21: 100th birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre , French writer and philosopher († 1980)
June 22: 200th birthday of Ida Hahn-Hahn , German writer and poet († 1880)
June 26: 100th birthday of Ruth Seydewitz , German journalist and writer († 1989)
July 2: 100th birthday of Ishikawa Tatsuzō , Japanese writer († 1985)
July 8: 100th birthday of Horst Biernath , German writer († 1978)
July 10: 100th birthday of Lev Kassil , Russian writer and children's book author († 1970)
July 14: 100th birthday of Kurt Zube , German author, publisher, editor († 1991)
July 19: 100th birthday of Max Colpet , American writer, screenwriter and songwriter († 1998)
July 21: 100th birthday of Miguel Mihura , Spanish writer († 1977)
July 25: 100th birthday of Elias Canetti , German writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1994)
July 29: 400th birthday of Simon Dach , German poet († 1659)
August 20: 100th birthday of Clemens von Podewils , German journalist and writer († 1978)
August 27: 100th birthday of Heinz Liepmann , German writer and journalist († 1966)
August 31: 100th birthday of Julio Meinvielle , Argentine writer and priest († 1973)
September 1: 100th birthday of Friedrich Ernst Hunsche , German writer and genealogist († 1994)
September 4: 100th birthday of Mary Renault , British writer († 1983)
September 5: 100th birthday of Arthur Koestler , British writer († 1983)
September 5: 200th birthday of Esteban Echeverría , Argentine poet († 1851)
September 6: 400th birthday of Johann Wilhelm Simler , Swiss poet († 1672)
September 18: 200th birthday of John Stevens Cabot Abbott , American clergyman and writer († 1877)
September 23: 400th birthday of Daniel Czepko , German poet, († 1660)
September 30th: 100th birthday of Savitri Devi , National Socialist philosopher and writer († 1982)
October 2: 100th birthday of Enchi Fumiko , Japanese writer († 1986)
October 14: 100th birthday of Pentti Haanpää , Finnish writer († 1955)
October 15: 100th birthday of Raymond Klibansky , European-Canadian philosopher († 2005)
October 15: 100th birthday of CP Snow , English scientist and writer († 1980)
October 15: 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Georg Bechtold , German philosopher, literary scholar and theologian (* 1732)
October 19: 400th birthday of Thomas Browne , English philosopher († 1682)
October 23: 100th birthday of Norah Lange , Argentine writer († 1972)
October 23: 200th birthday of Adalbert Stifter , Austrian poet, painter and teacher († 1868)
November 2: 100th birthday of Georges Schehadé , Lebanese poet and playwright († 1989)
November 7th: 100th anniversary of the death of Florence Dixie , British traveler and writer (* 1855)
November 9: 100th birthday of Erika Mann , German actress and writer († 1969)
November 10: 100th birthday of Kurt Eggers , German writer and Nazi cultural politician († 1943)
November 15: 100th birthday of Hara Tamiki , Japanese writer († 1951)
November 22: 200th anniversary of the death of Franz von Sonnenberg , German poet (* 1779)
November 23: 300th birthday of Thomas Birch , English historian and writer († 1766)
November 30th: 100th anniversary of the death of Clementine Abel , German writer (* 1826)
December 9: 100th birthday of Dalton Trumbo , American screenwriter and novelist († 1976)
December 11: 100th anniversary of the death of Paul Meurice , French writer (* 1818)
December 12th: 100th anniversary of the death of William Sharp ("Fiona Macleod"), Scottish writer (* 1855)
December 12: 100th birthday of Manès Sperber , Austro-French writer and philosopher († 1984)
December 12th: 100th birthday of Mulk Raj Anand , Indian novelist and short story writer († 2004)
December 12: 200th birthday of William Lloyd Garrison , American writer († 1879)
December 30th: 100th birthday of Daniil Charms , Russian writer († 1942)
December 31: 100th birthday of Frank Barufski , German actor, radio play speaker and presenter († 1991)
December 31: 200th birthday of Marie Cathérine Sophie d'Agoult , French writer († 1876)

New releases

Fiction

Afterdark - Haruki Murakami
All we had to give - Kazuo Ishiguro
The quake - Martin Mosebach
Until I find you - John Irving
Until (s) dawn - Stephenie Meyer
The book thief - Markus Zusak
Candy - Kevin Brooks
Diabolus - Dan Brown
Don't turn around - Karin Slaughter
The kingfisher - Uwe Tellkamp
The Angel Curse - Jörg Kastner
An English kind of happiness - Andrea Levy
We are fine - Arno Geiger
Fever - Leslie Kaplan
The friend and the stranger - Uwe Timm
Forever in honey - Dietmar Dath
The secret of Nicolini - Klas Ewert Everwyn
The story of my typewriter - Paul Auster
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Joanne K. Rowling
The sky over Meran - Joseph Zoderer
The Guardians of the Rose - Rebecca Gablé
A garden in his early childhood - Christoph Hein
Madness - Dean Koontz
The castellaness - Iny Lorentz
No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy
Final warning - Michael Connelly
Love stupidity - Wilhelm Genazino
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
The Luxembourg plot - Christian v. Ditfurth
Milene - Lídia Jorge
Morpheus - Jilliane Hoffman
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Paradise Lost - Cees Nooteboom
The Return of the Poet - Michael Connelly
Rupees! Rupees! - Vikas Swarup
The salt-white eyes - Dietmar Dath
Heavy earthquake - Jonathan Franzen
Scriptum - Raymond Khoury
The Sea - John Banville
Sire - Jean Raspail
Tony Takitani - Haruki Murakami
Traveler - John Twelve Hawks
The cursed - Wolfgang Hohlbein
Measuring the world - Daniel Kehlmann
Conspiracy against America - Philip Roth
Vincent - Joey Goebel
Cloud panther - Kenneth Oppel
The Zahir - Paulo Coelho

Non-fiction

Died

January 7th : Pierre Daninos , French journalist, writer
January 14th : Charlotte MacLeod , American mystery author (* 1922)
January 15 : Elizabeth Janeway , American feminist author (born 1913)
January 15 : Walter Ernsting , SF author (* 1920)
January 19 : K. Sello Duiker , South African author (* 1974)
January 19 : Vladimir Savchenko , Ukrainian SF writer (* 1933)
January 21 : Bania Mahamadou Say , Nigerien author (* 1935)
January 21 : Theun de Vries , Dutch writer and poet (* 1907)
January 25 : Max Velthuijs , Dutch writer, illustrator
January 29 : Ephraim Kishon , Israeli satirist, playwright, screenwriter (* 1924)
February 6 : Armin Müller , writer, painter
February 10 : Jean Cayrol , French author, publisher
February 10 : Arthur Miller , American playwright (born 1915)
February 11 : Jack L. Chalker , American SF writer (* 1944)
February 21 : Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Cuban novelist (* 1929)
February 25 : Phoebe Hesketh , British poet (* 1909)
March 7 : Willis Hall , British playwright (born 1929)
March 8 : Anna Haycraft , British novelist (* 1932)
March 17th : Andre Norton , American SF writer (* 1912)
March 22nd : Anthony Creighton , British playwright (born 1922)
March 30th : Robert Creeley , US poet (* 1926)
April 1 : Thomas Kling , poet
April 2 : Marie Louise Fischer , writer
April 2nd : Alois Vogel , Austrian writer
April 3 : Wolf Klaussner , writer
April 5 : Saul Bellow , American writer
April 7th : Max von der Grün , writer
April 7th : Yvonne Vera , (Zimbabwe), novelist (* 1964)
April 11 : David Hughes , British novelist and screenwriter (born 1930)
April 26 : Augusto Roa Bastos , Paraguayan novelist (* 1917)
May 7 : Tristan Egolf , American novelist (* 1971)
June 5 : Karl-Heinz Günther , crime writer
June 9 : Hovis Presley , British poet (* 1960)
June 11 : Juan José Saer , Argentine writer
June 11th : Therese Bichsel-Spörri , Swiss actress
June 11 : Franz Rieger , Austrian writer
June 13 : Eugénio de Andrade , Portuguese poet
June 13 : Jesús Moncada , Spanish writer
June 14 : Norman Levine , Canadian short story writer (born 1923)
June 16 : Enrique Laguerre , Puerto Rican novelist (* 1905)
June 20 : Larry Collins American novelist (* 1929)
June 22nd : William Donaldson , British satirist (born 1935)
June 27 : Shelby Foote , American novelist (born 1916)
June 28 : Philip Hobsbaum , Scottish poet, critic (* 1932)
June 30th : Christopher Fry , British playwright (born 1907)
July 2nd : Liselotte Rauner , writer
July 4th : Heinrich Schirmbeck , writer
July 5 : Lisa Jobst , writer
July 6 : Ed McBain , American novelist, screenwriter
July 6 : Claude Simon , French writer (Nobel Prize for Literature) (* 1913)
July 6 : Evan Hunter , American novelist (born 1926)
July 7 : Gustaf Sobin , American poet (* 1935)
July 17 : Gavin Lambert , British novelist, biographer (* 1924)
July 19 : Edward Bunker , American crime writer (* 1933)
July 10 : AJ Quinnell , British thriller writer
August 3 : Zisis Ikonomou , Greek poet, writer and playwright (* 1911)
August 9 : Judith Rossner , American novelist (* 1935)
August 21 : Dalia Rabikovich , Israeli poet (* 1936)
August 29 : Sybil Marshall , British novelist (born 1913)
September 10 : Erich Kuby , journalist, writer
September 16 F. K. Waechter draftsman, author of children's books and plays
September 12 : Helmut Baierl , writer, GDR
September 14 : Vladimir Volkoff , French writer
September 26 : Helen Cresswell , British children's author (born 1934)
September 27 : Mary Lee Settle , American novelist (born 1918)
September 27 : Ronald Pearsall , British writer (* 1927)
October 2 : August Wilson , American playwright (* 1945)
October 17 : Ba Jin , Chinese novelist (* 1904)
October 30 : Gordon A. Craig , Scottish historian (born 1913)
October 31 : Helmut Brennicke , German actor, director, radio play speaker, acting teacher and author (* 1918)
October 31 : Amrita Pritam , Indian poet and writer (* 1919)
November 1 : Michael Thwaites , Australian poet (* 1915)
November 3 : Robert Waller , British poet (* 1913)
November 4 : Michael G. Coney , Canadian SF author (* 1932)
November 5th : Nadia Anjuman , Afghan poet, journalist
November 5 : John Fowles , British novelist
November 5 : Leonora Hornblow , American writer
November 7th : Alfred Völkel , writer, dialect poet
November 11th : Peter Garski , crime novelist, musician
November 11th : Klaus Frühauf , sci-fi author
November 23 : Paddy Kitchen , British novelist, biographer (born 1934)
November 26 : Stan Berenstain , American children's author, illustrator (* 1923)
December 1 : Mary Hayley Bell , British playwright
December 2 : Christine Pullein-Thompson , British novelist (* 1925)
December 5 : Milo Dor , Austrian writer (* 1923)
December 5 : Liu Binyan , Chinese journalist, author (born 1925)
December 9 : Robert Sheckley , American short story writer (* 1928)
December 9 : Helmut Sakowski , writer, GDR (* 1924)
December 14 : Marianne Lange-Weinert , German editor, translator and author (* 1921)
December 15 : Julián Marías Aguilera , Spanish philosopher, author (* 1914)
December 16 : Kenneth Bulmer , British novelist, short story writer (born 1921)

Literature prizes 2005

German literary prizes

Georg Büchner Prize : Brigitte Kronauer
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Thomas Brussig
Clemens Brentano Prize : Anna Katharina Hahn , petty offense
German Science Fiction Prize : Frank Schätzing : The Swarm
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry : Julia Fiedorczuk , Ana Ristovic and Igor Bulatkovsky
Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize : Andreas Altmann , 34 days and 33 nights - from Paris to Berlin on foot and without money
Leonce and Lena Prize : Ron Winkler

International literary prizes

Hugo Award

Susanna Clarke , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , Category: Best Novel
Charles Stross , The Concrete Jungle , Der Beton-Dschungel , Category: Best Short Novel
Kelly Link , The Faery Handbag , Die Elbenhandtasche , Category: Best Story
Mike Resnick , Travels with My Cats , Category: Best Short Story

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Frank Schätzing , The Swarm , Category: Best Novel
Wolfgang Jeschke , Das Geschmeide , Category: Best short story / short story
China Miéville , The Scar / Leviathan , Category: Best Foreign Work
Peter Robert , Category: Best Translator
Dirk Berger , Category: Best Graphic Artist
Norbert Schaeffer , The Last Secret (based on Bernard Werber , L'ultime secret ) Director: Norbert Schaeffer, Category: Best radio play
Klaus Bollhöfener for his work as editor-in-chief of PHANTASTISCH! , Special Price

Locus Award

Neal Stephenson , The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World , Baroque Cycle : Confusion / Principia , Category: Best SF Novel
China Miéville , Iron Council , The Iron Council , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky , A Hat Full of Stars , Category: Best Children's Book
Susanna Clarke , Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell , Category: Best First Novel
Gene Wolfe , Golden City Far , Category: Best Short Novel
China Miéville , Reports of Certain Events in London , Category: Best Story
Kelly Link , The Faery Handbag , Category: Best Narration (awarded twice)
Neil Gaiman , Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire , Forbidden Brides faceless slaves in the secret House of Night horrible cravings , Category: Best Short Story
John Varley , The John Varley Reader , Category: Best Collection
Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology

Nebula Award

Joe Haldeman , Camouflage , Camouflage , Category: Best Novel
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners , Magic for Beginners , Category: Best Short Novel
Kelly Link, The Faery Handbag , Die Elbenhandtasche , Category: Best Story
Carol Emshwiller , I Live With You , Category: Best Short Story
Joss Whedon , Serenity , Serenity - Escape into New Worlds , Category: Best Screenplay

Philip K. Dick Award

MM Buckner , War Surf

Erich Fried Prize : Yaak Karsunke
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Pauline Holdstock for Beyond Measure
Man Booker Prize for Fiction : John Banville
Man Booker International Prize : Ismail Kadare
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : David Bezmozgis , Natasha and Other Stories
David Cohen Prize : Michael Holroyd
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Charles Montgomery , The Last Heathen
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Thomas Lang , Am Seil
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Robert Bringhurst
Marian Engel Award : Gayla Reid
Newbery Medal for Children's Literature : Cynthia Kadohata
Nobel Prize in Literature : Harold Pinter
Orange Prize for Fiction : Lionel Shriver , We Need to Talk about Kevin
Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Claudio Magris
Premio Andersen : Polly Horvath , La stagione delle conserve
Prix Goncourt : François Weyergans
Pulitzer Prize : Marilynne Robinson (novel)
Scotiabank Giller Prize : David Bergen
Trillium Book Award : Camilla Gibb , Sweetness in the Belly

Literature year 2005

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Events

Birthdays and memorial days

New releases

Died

Literature prizes 2005

German literary prizes

International literary prizes

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