This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005.
January 16 – This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of Don Quixote in Spain.
February 25 – Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation.
March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer.
April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30.
June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.
August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.
2005 in books
Tariq Ali – A Sultan in Palermo
Rajaa Alsanea – Girls of Riyadh (بنات الرياض, Banat al-Riyadh)
Avi – Never Mind
Tash Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory
Steve Aylett – Lint
Doreen Baingana – Tropical Fish (short stories)
John Banville – The Sea
Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way
Nelson Bond – Other Worlds Than Ours
Dionne Brand – What We All Long For
Orson Scott Card
Magic Street
Shadow of the Giant
Rita Chowdhury – Deo Langkhui
Wendy Coakley-Thompson – What You Won't Do for Love
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman
Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth
Robert Crais – The Forgotten Man
Mitch Cullin – A Slight Trick of the Mind
Michael Cunningham – Specimen Days
Rana Dasgupta – Tokyo Cancelled
Lindsey Davis – See Delphi and Die
Abha Dawesar – Babyji
L. Sprague de Camp – Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L.
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Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is the first and (as of 2022) only person to win a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).