Journey Upriver Towards Oishida and Charles Simic, Selected Poems: 1963-2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Scotiabank Giller Prize: David Bergen, The Time in Between Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret Sweden Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Philip Pullman and Ryōji Arai United Kingdom Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (first award): Duncan Macmillan, Monster Caine Prize for African Writing: S. A. Afolabi, "Monday Morning" Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Mal Peet, Tamar Cholmondeley Award: Jane Duran, Christopher Logue, M. R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson Commonwealth Writers Prize: Andrea Levy, Small Island Dagger of Daggers: John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) Eric Gregory Award: Melanie Challenger, Carolyn Jess, Luke Kennard, Jaim Smith James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Sue Prideaux, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Ian McEwan, Saturday Man Booker International Prize (first award): Ismail Kadare Man Booker Prize: John Banville, The Sea Samuel Johnson Prize: Jonathan Coe, Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson Orange Prize for Fiction: Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin Somerset Maugham Award: Justin Hill, Passing Under Heaven; Maggie O'Farrell, The Distance Between Us Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954 United States Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: B. H. Fairchild Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Rick Hilles, Brother Salvage: Poems Arthur Rense Prize: Daniel Hoffman Bollingen Prize for Poetry: Jay Wright Brittingham Prize in Poetry: Susanna Childress, Jagged with Love Compton Crook Award: Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow Frost Medal: Marie Ponsot Hugo Award: Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2005 Lambda Literary Awards. National Book Award for Poetry: W. S. Merwin, Migration: New and Selected Poems National Book Critics Circle Award: to War Trash by Ha Jin Newbery Medal: Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The March by E.L. Doctorow Pulitzer Prize for Drama: John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows Wallace Stevens Award: Gerald Stern Whiting Awards: Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Nell Freudenberger, Seth Kantner, John Keene (fiction/poetry) Plays: Rinne Groff Poetry: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin, Spencer Reece, Tracy K. Smith Other International Dublin