2005 Yearend Review: Award Winners
This is the list of authors and books that won awards in 2005.

November 26, 2005 — 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature (World)
Harold Pinter
2005 Mann Booker Prize (UK)
The Sea by John Banville (Knopf)
2005 Orange Prize for Fiction (UK & Commonwealth)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Harper Perennial)
2005 Pulitzer Prize (US)
Fiction: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nonfiction: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (Penguin)
History: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
Biography: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf)
Drama: Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanely (Theatre Communications Group)
Poetry: Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
2005 National Book Awards (US)
Fiction: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (Viking Adult)
Nonfiction: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Knopf)
Poetry: Migration: New & Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
2005 Booksense Book of the Year
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susana Clarke (Bloomsbury USA)
2005 Giller Prize (Canada)
The In Between Time by Michael Bergin (Random House, Canada)
2005 Governor General Awards (Canada)
Fiction: A Perfect Night to Go to China by David Gilmour (Thomas Allen & Son)
Nonfiction: The Golden Spuce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant(Knopf, Canada)
Drama: Half Life by John Mighton (Playwrights Canada Press April 2006)
Poetry: Processional by Anne Compton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd)
2005 Australian Book Award : Miles Franklin Literary Award
Fiction: The White Earth by Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)
2005 Kirayima Prize (Pacific Rim & South Asia)
Fiction: A Map For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Asam (Faber & Faber)
Nonfiction: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (Penguin)
Other Genres
Mystry: Edgar Awards -- The Confession by Dominic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
Science Fiction: Nebula Prize -- Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (Eros)
Social Bookmarks