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Events

Anniversaries

January 2: 100th birthday of Auguste Lechner, Austrian writer and children's author († 2000)
January 2: 100th birthday of Max Niedermayer, German publisher and author († 1968)
January 3: 200th birthday of Ludwig Dindorf, German classical scholar († 1871)
January 6: 100th birthday of Eric Frank Russell, British author († 1978)
January 8: 100th birthday of Carl Gustav Hempel, philosopher, student of logical positivism († 1997)
January 11: 100th anniversary of Ellery Queen, American crime writer († 1971)
January 14: 100th anniversary of Kurt Ganske, German booksellers and publishers († 1979)
January 16: 100th anniversary of Itō Sei, Japanese writer, translator and literary critic († 1969)
January 17: 100th anniversary of Artur champion, German writer and anarchist († 1946)
January 17: 400th anniversary of Friedrich von Logau, Baroque poets († 1655)
January 23: 100th anniversary of Jesse Thoor, German writer († 1952)
January 25: 100th Anniversary of Margery Sharp, English writer († 1991)
January 28: 200th anniversary of the death of Mihály Csokonai Vitez, Hungarian poet (* 1773)
January 31: 100th Birthday of John O'Hara, American writer († 1970)
February 2: 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand, American author († 1982)
February 3: 100th Birthday of Albert K. Homberg, German historian and author († 1963)
FEBRUARY 4: 200th birthday of James William Harrison Ainsworth, English writer († 1882)
February 6: 100th Birthday Anniversary 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 hard life, German dramatist, poet and storyteller (* 1864)
March 24: 100th anniversary of Jules Verne, French author (* 1828)
March 24: 100th anniversary 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 Jacob Ayrer, German writer (c. 1544)
April 2: 200th Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish writer and poet († 1875)
April 7: 100th anniversary of the death of Robert de Bonnières, French writer (* 1850)
April 11: 100th birthday of Attila József, the Hungarian poet († 1937)
April 21: 100th anniversary of Ursula von Wiese, German -Swiss actress, translator and writer († 2002)
April 23: 200th Birthday of Karl Rosenkranz, German philosopher Hegel and biographer († 1879)
April 24: 100th Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, American author and poet († 1989)
April 28: 200th anniversary of Henri Auguste Barbier, French writer († 1882)
May 2: 100th Birthday of Charlotte Armstrong, American author of detective novels († 1969)
MAY 11: 100th anniversary of Grete Weiskopf, children's book author († 1966)
MAY 16: 100th anniversary of Lothar Irle, Siegerländer local historian and writer († 1974)
MAY 17: 300th Anniversary of Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet († 1758)
May 20: 100th anniversary of Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet († 1962)
MAY 21: 100th anniversary of Annik Saxegaard, Norwegian writer († 1990)
MAY 24: 100th anniversary of Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, Soviet writer († 1984)
MAY 28: 100th anniversary of the death of Baldwin 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)
20 June: 100th anniversary of Lillian Hellman, American writer († 1984)
21 June: 100th anniversary of Jean -Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher († 1980)
June 22: 200th Anniversary of Ida Hahn- Hahn, German writer and poet († 1880)
June 26: 100th anniversary of Ruth Seydewitz, German journalist and writer († 1989)
July 2: 100th Birthday of Tatsuzo Ishikawa, Japanese writer († 1985)
July 8: 100th birthday of Horst Biernath, German writer († 1978)
July 10: 100th anniversary of Lev Kassil, Russian writer and children's book author († 1970)
July 14: 100th anniversary of Kurt Zube, German author, publisher, editor († 1991)
July 19: 100th birthday of Max Colpet, American author, screenwriter, and hit songwriter († 1998)
July 21: 100th anniversary of Miguel Mihura, Spanish writer († 1977)
July 25: 100th birthday of Elias Canetti, German writer and Nobel laureate († 1994)
July 29: 400th anniversary of Simon Dach, German poet († 1659)
August 20: 100th Birthday of Clement of 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 anniversary of Daniel Czepko, German poet († 1660)
September 30: 100th anniversary of Savitri Devi, National Socialist philosopher and writer († 1982)
October 2: 100th Birthday of Enchi Fumiko, Japanese writer († 1986)
October 14: 100th anniversary of Pentti Haanpää, Finnish writer († 1955)
October 15: 100th anniversary of Raymond Klibansky, European - Canadian philosopher († 2005)
October 15: 100th anniversary 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 anniversary of Thomas Browne, English philosopher († 1682)
October 23: 100th anniversary of Norah Lange, Argentine writer († 1972)
October 23: 200th anniversary of Adalbert Stifter, Austrian folk poet, painter and educator († 1868)
November 2: 100th anniversary of Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright († 1989)
NOV 7: 100th anniversary of the death of Florence Dixie, British traveler and writer (* 1855)
NOV 9: 100th Birthday of Erika Mann, German actress and writer († 1969)
NOVEMBER 10: 100th anniversary of Kurt Eggers, German writer and Nazi cultural policy († 1943)
NOVEMBER 15: 100th anniversary of Tamiki Hara, Japanese writer († 1951)
November 22: 200th anniversary of the death of Franz von Sonnenberg, German poet (* 1779)
November 23: 300th anniversary of the death of Thomas Birch, English historian and writer († 1766 )
November 30: 100th Anniversary of Clementine Abel, German writer (* 1826)
December 9: 100th anniversary of Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist († 1976)
December 11: 100th anniversary of the death of Paul Meurice, French writer ( 1818 )
December 12: 100th anniversary of the death of William Sharp ( " Fiona Macleod " ), Scottish writer (* 1855)
December 12: 100th anniversary of Manès Sperber, Austro- French writer and philosopher († 1984)
December 12: Mulk Raj Anand 's 100th birthday, Indian novelist and short-story writer († 2004)
December 12: 200th birthday of William Lloyd Garrison, American writer († 1879)
December 30: 100th anniversary of Daniil Kharms, Russian writer († 1942)
December 31: 100th anniversary of Frank Barufski, German actor, radio speaker and moderator († 1991)
December 31: 200th anniversary of Marie Catherine Sophie d' Agoult, French writer († 1876)

New Books

April Fool - William Deverell
The quake - Martin Mosebach
Until I find you - John Irving
Bis (s ) Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Candy - Kevin Brooks
Diabolus - Dan Brown
The angels curse - Jörg Kastner
An English kind of happiness - Andrea Levy
Fever - Leslie Kaplan
The friend and the stranger - Uwe Timm
Forever in honey - Dietmar Dath
The secret of Nicolini - Classic Ewert Everwyn
Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince - JK Rowling
The sky above Meran - Joseph Zoderer
The Keepers of the Rose - Rebecca Gablé
In his early childhood a garden - Christoph Hein
Madness - Dean Koontz
The Kastellanin - Iny Lorentz
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Liebesblödigkeit - Wilhelm Genazino
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Luck - Joan Barfoot
The Luxembourg - conspiracy - Christian v. Ditfurth
Morpheus - Jilliane Hoffman
Rupees! Rupees! - Vikas Swarup
The salt- white eyes - Dietmar Dath
Scriptum - Raymond Khoury
The Sea - John Banville
The Time in Between - David Bergen
Traveler - John Twelve Hawks
The Cursed - Wolfgang hollow leg
Measuring the World - Daniel Quinn
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The Zahir - Paulo Coelho

Alice Calaprice and Trevor Lipscombe (ed.): Albert Einstein: A Biography.

Died

January 7: Pierre Daninos, French journalist, writer
JANUARY 14: Charlotte MacLeod, U.S. mystery writer (* 1922)
January 15: Elizabeth Janeway, U.S. feminist author (* 1913)
JANUARY 15: Walter Ernsting, SF writer (* 1920)
JANUARY 19: K. Sello Duiker, South African writer ( b. 1974 )
JANUARY 21: Theun de Vries, a Dutch writer and poet (* 1907)
JANUARY 24: Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian SF writer ( b. 1933 )
JANUARY 25: Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer, illustrator
JANUARY 29: Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter. (* 1924)
February 6: Armin Müller, writer, painter
FEBRUARY 10: Jean Cayrol, French author, publisher
February 10: Arthur Miller, U.S. playwright ( born 1915 )
FEBRUARY 11: Jack L. Chalker, U.S. SF writer ( b. 1944 )
FEBRUARY 21: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist ( born 1929 )
February 25: Phoebe Hesketh, British poet (* 1909)
March 7: Willis Hall, English playwright ( born 1929 )
MARCH 8: Anna Haycraft, English novelist ( b. 1932 )
MARCH 17: Andre Norton, U.S. SF writer (* 1912)
MARCH 22: Anthony Creighton, English dramatist (* 1922)
March 30: Robert Creeley, American poet ( b. 1926 )
April 1: Thomas Kling, poet
April 2: Marie Louise Fischer, writer
April 2: Alois Vogel, Austrian writer
April 3: Wolf Klaussner, writer
April 5: Saul Bellow, U.S. writer
April 7th: Max von der Grün, writer
April 7: Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe ), novelist ( b. 1964 )
APRIL 11: David Hughes, English novelist and screenwriter ( b. 1930 )
April 26: Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist ( * 1917 )
May 7: Tristan Egolf, U.S. novelist ( b. 1971 )
June 5: Karl -Heinz Günther, mystery writer
9 June: Hovis Presley, English poet ( b. 1960 )
JUNE 11: Juan José Saer, Argentine writer
June 11: Theresa Bichsel - Spoerri, 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, a Canadian short-story writer ( b. 1923 )
JUNE 16: Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist ( b. 1905 )
20 June: Larry Collins U.S. novelist ( born 1929 )
June 22: William Donaldson, English satirist ( b. 1935 )
June 27: Shelby Foote, U.S. novelist (* 1916)
JUNE 28: Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet, critic ( b. 1932 )
June 30th: Christopher Fry, English dramatist (* 1907)
July 2: Liselotte Rauner, writer
JULY 4: Heinrich Schirmbeck, writer
July 5th: Lisa Jobst, writer
July 6th: Ed McBain, American author, screenwriter
July 6th: Claude Simon, French writer Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1913)
July 6th: Evan Hunter, American novelist ( b. 1926 )
July 7: Gustaf Sobin, U.S. poet ( b. 1935 )
JULY 17: Gavin Lambert, English novelist, biographer (* 1924)
July 19: Edward Bunker, American crime writer ( b. 1933 )
JULY 10: AJ Quinnell, British Thriller Author
August 9: Judith Rossner, U.S. novelist ( b. 1935 )
AUGUST 21: Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet ( b. 1936 )
AUGUST 29: Sybil Marshall, English novelist (* 1913)
September 11: Erich Kuby, journalist, writer
September 16 FK Waechter illustrator, author of children's books, plays
September 12: Helmut Baierl, writers, GDR
September 14: Vladimir Volkoff, French writer
September 26: Helen Cresswell, English children's author ( b. 1934 )
September 27: Mary Lee Settle, U.S. novelist ( born 1918 )
September 27: Ronald Pearsall, English writer (* 1927)
October 2: August Wilson, U.S. playwright ( b. 1945 )
OCTOBER 17: Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (* 1904)
October 31: Helmut Brennicke, German actor, director, radio speaker, acting teacher and author ( born 1918 )
NOVEMBER 1: Michael Thwaites, Australian poet ( born 1915 )
November 2: Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian
November 3: Robert Waller, English poet, (* 1913)
November 4: Michael G. Coney, Canadian SF writer ( b. 1932 )
November 5th: John Fowles, British novelist
NOVEMBER 5: Leonora Hornblow, American writer
November 6: Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet, journalist
November 7: Alfred Voelkel, writers, dialect poet
November 11: Peter Garski, crime writers, musicians
November 11: Klaus Fruehauf, Sci-Fi Authors
November 23: Paddy Kitchen, English novelist, biographer ( b. 1934 )
November 26: Stan Berenstain, American children's book author, illustrator ( b. 1923 )
December 1: Mary Hayley Bell, playwright
December 2: Christine Pullein - Thompson, English novelist ( b. 1925 )
December 5: Milo Dor, Austrian writer
December 5: Liu Binyan, Chinese journalist, author
December 9: Robert Sheckley, U.S. short-story writer ( b. 1928 )
December 9: Helmut Sakowski, writers, GDR
December 15: Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher, author (* 1914)
December 16, Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist, short-story writer ( b. 1921 )

Literary Awards 2005

German literary prizes

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

International literary awards

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
Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize: Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: Thomas Lang, the rope
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence: Robert Bringhurst
Marian Engel Award: Gayla Reid
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Kadohata
Nobel Prize for 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

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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Orhan Pamuk
Goethe Medal: Samuel Assefa, Ruth Wiser, Dmytro Volodymyrovych Satonsky, Yōko Tawada, Simone Young

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