411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
2006 in literature
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
2006 literature poetry
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2006.
Events
March – The first full-length original novel in the Manx language, Dunveryssyn yn Tooder-Folley ("The Vampire Murders"), is published by Brian Stowell, after being serialized in the press.https://namanx.org/brian-stowell-gets-big-award Brian Stowell gets big award June 11, 2010 North American Manx Association 5 February 2021
April 7 – Justice Peter Smith concludes in a case of February 27 in the London High Court of Justice against the publisher Random House over the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code (2003), that the author, Dan Brown, has not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in their The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982, non-fiction). The judgment also contains a coded message on the whim of the judge.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4949488.stm Judge creates own Da Vinci code BBC News 2006-04-27 2008-02-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20110213070308/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4949488.stm 2011-02-13 live
April 7–9 – First Jaipur Literature Festival held in India.http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?230952 https://web.archive.org/web/20101028224144/http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?230952 dead October 28, 2010 Pen On The Rostrum Sheela Reddy Outlook India 2006-04-17 2019-12-02
Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched through the social networking site Myspace.http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/the_rise_and_rise_of_the_bruta.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080516053534/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/the_rise_and_rise_of_the_bruta.html dead May 16, 2008 The rise and rise of the Brutalists Books Blog The Guardian London 2013-11-26 2008-08-19
June 14 – Ciaran Creagh's play Last Call, based loosely on the hanging of the murderer Michael Manning in 1954, as witnessed by the playwright's father, is staged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where it is set.https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklowpeople/news/arresting-play-on-way-to-historic-gaol-in-wicklow-27833155.html Arresting play on way to historic gaol in Wicklow 13 July 2006 independent.ie 5 February 2021
June–September – Elif Şafak is tried for "insulting Turkishness" in her novel The Bastard of Istanbul, published earlier in the year, but eventually acquitted.
June 7 – The final portion of the library accumulated by Sir Thomas Phillipps (died 1872) is sold by Christie's in London.Christie's (2006-06-07) Sale 7233: Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books London, King Street. Lots 18–38. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
July 14 – The Times Literary Supplement reports on the discovery of a missing copy of Shelley's Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, an 1811 pamphlet containing a 172-line poem critical of war, politics and religion; although published anonymously, the poem is thought to have contributed to the rebel poet's expulsion from the University of Oxford (which acquires the unique copy of the pamphlet in 2015).http://www.poetrysoc.com/content/info/news/2006 Poetry in the News: 2006 The Poetry Society London 2015-11-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20151120032654/http://www.poetrysoc.com/content/info/news/2006 2015-11-20 dead
August 1 – The University of Helsinki library becomes the National Library of Finland (Kansalliskirjasto).
September – Museum of Modern Literature opens in Marbach am Neckar, Schiller's birthplace in Germany.
September 20 – The Writers Guild of America, West, holds a Los Angeles rally in support of the America's Next Top Model writers' strike. President Patric Verrone says: "Every piece of media with a moving image on a screen or a recorded voice must have a writer, and every writer must have a WGA contract."WGA's Verrone: "Every Writer Must Have a WGA Contract" http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6373941.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228 Ben Grossman Broadcasting & Cable 2006-09-20 2006-09-24
November 6 – WGAw files an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after Top Model producers say the next season of the show will not require writers. In response, Verrone said, "As they demanded union representation, the company decided they were expendable. This is illegal strikebreaking."Top Model Takes Strikers Off Payroll http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6389164.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228 Jim Benson Broadcasting & Cable 2006-11-07 2006-11-09
New books
Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sunhttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/Nixon.t.html A Biafran Story Nixon Rob October 1, 2006 New York Times July 26, 2008
Naomi Alderman – Disobedience
Martin Amis – House of Meetings
Margaret Atwood – Moral Disorder
Muriel Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog (L'Élégance du hérisson) (France, Gallimard)Gill Rye Amaleena Damlé Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=RleuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA254 15 April 2013 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2589-6 254
Brunonia Barry – The Lace Reader
François Bégaudeau – Entre les murs (Between the Walls)
Peter Behrens – The Law of Dreams
William Boyd – Restless
T. C. Boyle – Talk Talk
James Chapman – Stet (January 7)
Douglas Coupland – jPod
Mark Z. Danielewski – Only Revolutions
Patricia Duncker – Miss Webster and Chérif
Dave Eggers – What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (October 25)
Agustín Fernández Mallo – Nocillo (trilogy, begins publication)
Gillian Flynn – Sharp Objects
Aminatta Forna – Ancestor Stones
Wendy Guerra – Todos se van (Everyone's Leaving)
Katharina Hacker – Die Habenichtse (The Have-Nots)
Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Free
Rawi Hage – De Niro's Game
Hiro Arikawa – Library War (図書館戦争 Toshokan Sensō)Hiroko Takeda Mark Williams Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan https://books.google.com/books?id=yfH3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT252 21 September 2020 Taylor & Francis 978-1-134-83001-5 252
Anosh Irani – The Song of Kahunsha (Canada, Doubleday)Canadian Book Review Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=APoUAAAAYAAJ 2007 Peter Martin Associates. 978-0-9732301-7-8 184–185
Lloyd Jones – Mister Pip
Philip Kerr – The One from the Other
Torsten Krol – The Dolphin People
Vincent Lam – Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Jon McGregor – So Many Ways to Begin
David Mitchell – Black Swan Green
Alice Munro – The View from Castle Rock
Amélie Nothomb – Journal d'Hirondelle
Joyce Carol Oates – Black Girl/White Girl
Heather O'Neill – Lullabies for Little Criminals
Carolyn Parkhurst – Lost and Found
Thomas Pynchon – Against the Day (November 21)
Christoph Ransmayr – The Flying Mountain (Der fliegende Berg)
Ron Rash – The World Made Straight
James Robertson – The Testament of Gideon Mack
Will Self – The Book of Dave
Olga Slavnikova – 2017
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – Wizard of the Crow (Gikuyu: Mũrogi wa Kagogo)
Lynne Tillman – American Genius, A Comedy
John Updike – Terrorist (June 6)
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Bad Girl (Travesuras de la niña mala)
Children and young people
Chris Van Allsburg – Probuditi!
Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson – Peter and the Shadow Thieves (July 15)
John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped PyjamasHahn 2015, p. 87
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (September 12, fifth in the Artemis Fowl series)
John Fardell – The Flight of the Silver Turtle
Jean-Luc Fromental – 365 Penguins
Julia Golding – Secret of the Sirens (August 3, UK, first in the Companions Quartet)Secret of the Sirens: Bk. 1 by Julia Golding https://www.waterstones.com/book/secret-of-the-sirens-bk-1/julia-golding/9780192754608 www.waterstones.com 9 January 2017 24 February 2015
John Green – An Abundance of KatherinesHahn 2015, p. 246
Gordon Korman – Born to Rock
J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson
D. J. MacHale – The Quillan Games (May 16)
David Mitchell – Black Swan Green (April 11)
Robert Muchamore
Divine Madness (fifth in the CHERUB series)
Man vs Beast (sixth in the CHERUB series)
Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
Garth Nix – Sir Thursday (March 1) (fourth in The Keys to the Kingdom series)
Jerry Pinkney – The Little Red Hen
Terry Pratchett – Wintersmith (October 1, third in the Tiffany Aching series)
Philip Reeve – A Darkling PlainHahn 2015, p. 492
Lemony Snicket – The End (October 13) (13th in A Series of Unfortunate Events)The unfortunate end of Lemony Snicket https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/15/books.booksnews1 the Guardian 18 January 2022 en 15 October 2006
Toshihiko Tsukiji and Senmu – Kämpfer (けんぷファー, November 24)
Genre fiction
Fantasy
Joe Abercrombie – The Blade Itself (May 4, first in First Law series)
R. Scott Bakker – The Thousandfold Thought (January 20, third in Prince of Nothing trilogy)
Steven Erikson – The Bonehunters (March 1, sixth in Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
Terry Goodkind – Phantom (July 18, 10th in Sword of Truth series)
Laurell K. Hamilton – Mistral's Kiss (December 12, fifth in Merry Gentry series)
Gregory Keyes – The Blood Knight (July 11, third in The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series)
Dean Koontz – Brother Odd (November 28, third in Odd Thomas series)
Tanith Lee – Piratica II (second in The Piratica Series)
Scott Lynch – The Lies of Locke Lamora (June 27, first in Gentleman Bastards series)
Patricia A. McKillip – Solstice Wood
Zhang Muye zh 张牧野 – Ghost Blows Out the Light (March)http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/07/02/1261@244886.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070706022149/http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/07/02/1261@244886.htm dead 2007-07-06 Little Fatty Likely to Appear in Hollywood Film China Radio International July 2, 2007
Angie Sage – Flyte (March 1, second in Septimus Heap series)
Jeff VanderMeer – Shriek: An Afterword (August 8)
Rick Riordan – The Sea of Monsters
Historical
Kunal Basu – Racistshttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview17 Experiments in brutality Mike Phillips 20 January 2006 Guardian 10 November 2024
Bernard Cornwell
The Lords of the North
Sharpe's Fury
Debra Dean – The Madonnas of Leningrad
Charles Frazier – Thirteen Moons (October 3)
Robert Harris – Imperium
Michael Moorcock – The Vengeance of Rome (January 5, fourth in the Pyat Quartet)
Naomi Novik – Temeraire (January 7)
Andrzej Sapkowski – Lux Perpetua
Sarah Waters – The Night Watch (March 23)
Jack Whyte – Knights of the Black and White (August 8, first in the Templar Trilogy)
Gene Wolfe – Soldier of Sidon (October 31, third book in the Soldier series)
Horror
James Patterson & Peter de Jonge – Beach Road (May 1)
Victor Heck – Downward Spiral (November 27)
Stephen King
Cell (January 24)
Lisey's Story (October 24)
Thomas Ligotti – Teatro Grottesco
James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey (ed.) – Evermore
Humor and satire
Max Barry – Company (January 17)
Ben Elton – Chart Throb
Bobby Henderson – The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (March 28)
Maddox – The Alphabet of Manliness (June)
Carl Hiaasen – Nature Girl (November 14)
Vladimir Sorokin – Day of the Oprichnik
Mystery and crime
Gilbert Adair – The Act of Roger Murgatroyd
Robert Baer – Blow the House Down a novel (May 30)
Mary Higgins Clark – Two Little Girls in Blue
Ranj Dhaliwal – Daaku (October 6)
Michael Connelly – Echo Park (October 9)
Patricia Cornwell
At Risk (May 23, first in the At Risk series)
Book of the Dead (October 24, 15th in Kay Scarpetta series)
Clive Cussler – Treasure of Khan (December 5)
Jeffery Deaver
The Cold Moon (May 30, seventh in the Lincoln Rhyme series)
More Twisted (December 16)
Nelson DeMille – Wild Fire (November 6)
Thomas Harris – Hannibal Rising (December 5, fourth in Hannibal Lecter series)
Tony Hillerman – The Shape Shifter (November 1, 12th in Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series)
Dean Koontz – The Husband (May 30)
Stieg Larsson (died 2004) – The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)
Val McDermid – The Grave Tattoo (February 6)
James Patterson
Cross (November 14, 12th in Alex Cross series)
Judge and Jury (July 31)
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro – The 5th Horseman (February 13)
Michael Slade – Kamikaze (November 7)
Thomas Sullivan – The Water Wolf (October 3)
Andrew Vachss – Mask Market
Samantha Weinberg – Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
Jack Whyte – The Eagle (December 26, ninth in Camulod Chronicles series)
Romance
Karen Marie Moning – Darkfever (October 31)
Stephenie Meyer – New Moon
Nicholas Sparks – Dear John (October 30)
Danielle Steel – H. R. H. (October 31)
Sci-fi
Aaron Allston – Betrayal (May 30, first in Legacy of the Force series)
Elizabeth Bear – Carnival (November 28)
Troy Denning – Tempest (November 28)
David Louis Edelman – Infoquake (July 5, first in Jump 225 trilogy)
Drew Karpyshyn – Path of Destruction: a Novel of the New Republic (September 26)
Paul Levinson – The Plot to Save Socrates (February 6)
Cormac McCarthy – The Road (September 26)
Yvonne Navarro – Ultraviolet (March 1)
Tim Powers – Three Days to Never (August 1)
J. D. Robb – Born in Death (November 7, 23rd in In Death series)
Masamune Shirow – Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor
Charles Stross – Glasshouse (June 27)
Karen Traviss
Bloodlines (August 29, second in Legacy of the Force series)
Triple Zero (second in Star Wars: Republic Commando series)
Peter Watts – Blindsight (October 3)
Stephen Woodworth – From Black Rooms (October 31, fourth in Violet series)
Timothy Zahn – Outbound Flight (January 31)
Drama
Salvatore Antonio – In Gabriel's Kitchen
Jacob M. Appel – Arborophilia
Tanya Barfield – Blue Door
Howard Brenton – In Extremis
Gregory Burke – Black Watch
John Cariani – Almost Maine
Nilo Cruz – Beauty of the Father
Brian Friel – Faith Healer
Richard Greenberg – A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Rinne Groff – What Then
Lisa Kron – Well
Neil LaBute – Fat Pig
David Lindsay-Abaire – Rabbit Hole
Itamar Moses – Bach at Leipzig
Joël Pommerat – Cet enfant
Nina Raine – Rabbit
Adam Rapp – Red Light Winter
Poetry
2006 in poetry
Non-fiction
Debby Applegate – The Most Famous Man in America
Enrique Desmond Arias – Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeirohttps://www.uncpress.org/book/9780807857748/drugs-and-democracy-in-rio-de-janeiro/ Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro Enrique Desmond Arias University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press 2018-01-24 en-US
Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Philip Ball – The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
Alison Bechdel – Fun Home
Jimmy Carter – Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Christopher Catherwood – A Brief History of the Middle East
Rajiv Chandrasekaran – Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme – My Life in France
Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
Daniel Dennett – Breaking the Spell
Alain de Botton – The Architecture of Happiness
Nora Ephron – I Feel Bad About My Neck
Wayne Federman with Marshall Terrill and Pete Maravich – Maravich
Al Gore – An Inconvenient Truth
Glenn Greenwald – How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
John Grisham – The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Nicky Hager – The Hollow Menhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3868206a6160,00.html Hager revealed as author of Brash emails book Sunday Star-Times 21 November 2006 5 February 2021 30 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930050339/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3868206a6160,00.html dead
Sam Harris – Letter to a Christian Nation
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (長谷川毅) – Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
Christopher Hitchens – Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography
Derrick Jensen – Endgame
Elizabeth Kolbert – Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Christian Kracht, Eva Munz and Lukas Nikol – The Ministry of Truth (Die totale Erinnerung)
Rohan Kriwaczek – An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
Linden MacIntyre – CausewayFaculty of Arts, 2007, https://archive.today/20121208130756/http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11281 Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012
Larry Miller – Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life
Max Nemni and Monique Nemni – Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/biography-of-trudeau-s-youth-wins-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-1.683938 Biography of Trudeau's youth wins Shaughnessy Cohen prize February 28, 2007 CBC News 10 November 2024
Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope
Lena Phoenix – The Heart of a Cult
John Ramsden – Don't Mention the War: How the British and the Germans Survived Bombing in World War II
Ruth Scurr – Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Richard Sennett – The Culture of the New Capitalism
Zhi Gang Sha – Soul, Mind, Body Medicine
Peter Sloterdijk – Rage and Time (Zorn und Zeit)
Tavis Smiley – What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America
David Suzuki – David Suzuki: The AutobiographyCBA Libris Awards 2007 (PDF) 2007 http://cbabook.org/AWARDS/Libris2007NomineeProfiles.pdf Canadian Booksellers Association 2008-02-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20071020200958/http://cbabook.org/AWARDS/Libris2007NomineeProfiles.pdf 2007-10-20
Peter Tyrrell – Founded on Fear (posthumous publication)Remembering Peter Tyrrell https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/72511/remembering-peter-tyrrell 2014-09-25 2025-11-19 Galway Advertiser
Hywel Williams – Days That Changed the World: the 50 Defining Events of World History
Births
unknown dates
Nick Stitle – American fantasy authorhttps://www.nickstitle.com/ Nick Stitle | Author of Stormless Nick Stitle
Deaths
January 4 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (born 1912)Elspeth Cameron https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/irving-layton Irving Layton The Canadian Encyclopedia Hurtig 1988 1190–1191
January 16 – Jan Mark, English children's writer (born 1943)
January 19 – Awn Alsharif Qasim, Sudanese author and scholar (born 1933)
January 30 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (born 1950)
February 2 – Chris Doty, Canadian dramatist (born 1966)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist writer (born 1921)https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-friedan5feb05,0,2296445.story Betty Friedan, Philosopher Of Modern-day Feminism, Dies February 4, 2006 Los Angeles Times Elaine Woo
February 8 – Michael Gilbert, English crime writer (born 1912)
February 9 – Ena Lamont Stewart, Scottish playwright (born 1912)
February 11 – Peter Benchley, American novelist (born 1940)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4707576.stm Jaws author Peter Benchley dies BBC News February 13, 2006 August 17, 2012 BBC
February 17 – Sybille Bedford, German-born English novelist and journalist (born 1911)
February 20 – Lucjan Wolanowski (Lucjan Kon), Polish writer, journalist and traveler (born 1920)
February 21
Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvashian poet and translator (born 1934)
Theodore Draper, American historian (born 1912)Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Theodore Draper, Freelance Historian, Is Dead at 93," New York Times, February 22, 2006.
February 22 – Hilde Domin, German writer (born 1909)
February 24 – Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction writer (born 1947)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/books/01butler.html Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 58 The New York Times March 1, 2006 March 7, 2016 Fox Margalit
February 25 – Margaret Gibson, Canadian novelist and story writer (born 1948)
March 12 – Jurij Brězan, German/Sorbian writer (born 1916)
March 27 – Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (born 1921)
March 30 – John McGahern, Irish novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born 1934)
April 3 – Muhammad al-Maghut, Syrian Ismaili poet (born 1934)
April 6 – Leslie Norris, Anglo-Welsh poet and author (born 1921)Stephens Meic Meic Stephens 9 April 2006 Leslie Norris https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leslie-norris-6104085.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leslie-norris-6104085.html 2022-05-01 subscription The Independent London 3 December 2017
April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch novelist and poet (born 1923)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/books/gerard-reve-provocative-author-dies-at-82.html Gerard Reve, provocative author, dies at 82 April 12, 2006 New York Times January 14, 2022
April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish-born novelist (born 1918)Turner Jenny Obituary: Dame Muriel Spark https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/17/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries The Guardian 11 October 2018 en 17 April 2006
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American urban planning critic and activist (born 1916)
April 30 - Herbert Burkholz, American novelist and non-fiction authorhttps://www.ksl.com/article/253201/writer-herbert-burkholz-dead-at-73 Writer Herbert Burkholz dead at 73 | Posted- May 8 2006 at 1:40 P.m www.ksl.com
May 9 – Jerzy Ficowski, poet, writer and translator (born 1924)
May 16 – Clare Boylan, Irish novelist (born 1948)McDonnell Jane Obituary: Clare Boylan https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/20/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries The Guardian 11 October 2018 en 19 May 2006
May 18 – Gilbert Sorrentino, American novelist and poet (born 1929)
June 17 – James H. McClure, South African-born crime writer (born 1939)Campbell Duncan James H. McClure https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/22/guardianobituaries.pressandpublishing The Guardian January 14, 2018 en 22 June 2006
June 28 – Nigel Cox, New Zealand novelist (born 1951)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American crime writer (born 1918)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/arts/18spillane.html Mickey Spillane, 88, Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels, Dies 18 July 2006 The New York Times
July 28 – David Gemmell, English fantasy novelist (born 1948)
August 16 – Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (born 1944)
August 17 – Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet (born 1929)
August 21 – S. Yizhar, Israeli novelist (born 1916)
August 25 – Silva Kaputikyan, Armenian poet (born 1919)
August 30 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1911)Naguib Mahfouz – Biographical https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/mahfouz-bio.html nobelprize.org
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer and translator (born 1910)
September 12 – Edna Staebler CM, Canadian author and literary journalist (born 1906)Obits for Life, Edna Staebler https://web.archive.org/web/20150104015320/http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/188114/Staebler-Edna.php 2015-01-04 , Retrieved 11/26/2012
October 13 – Protiva Bose, Bengali writer and singer (born 1915)
October 17 – Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer (born 1911)Eccleshare Julia Obituary: Ursula Moray Williams https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/15/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries The Guardian 19 August 2019 15 November 2006
October 25 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (born 1927)
November 1 – William Styron, American novelist (born 1925)The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=q7B4AAAAMAAJ 2006 University of North Carolina Press 978-0-8078-3190-8 438
November 6 – Nelson S. Bond, American writer (born 1908)
November 9 – Ellen Willis, American journalist and critic (born 1941)
November 10 – Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (born 1908)
November 15 – George G. Blackburn MC, Canadian author (born 1917)Ottawa Citizen, November 16–18, 2006, George Blackburn – Obituary, Retrieved 11/21/2012
November 20 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-born American writer (born 1916)
November 23
Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist (born 1936)
Richard Clements, English journalist (born 1928)
November 24
William Diehl, American author (born 1924)
Phyllis Fraser, American writer, publisher and actor (born 1916)
George W. S. Trow, American writer and media critic (born 1943)
November 27 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (born 1950; (brain cancer))Carol Memmott https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-11-27-campbell-obit_x.htm Best seller Bebe Moore Campbell dead at 56 USA Today November 27, 2006 November 10, 2024
December 21 – Philippa Pearce, English children's writer (born 1920)https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/outstanding-writer-of-the-20th-century-7578748 Collins Ian 19 February 2021 23 December 2006 Outstanding writer of the 20th century Eastern Daily Press 12 July 2022
December 26 – John Heath-Stubbs, English poet and translator (born 1918)https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1979644,00.html John Heath-Stubbs 29 December 2006 The Guardian 10 November 2024
Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature: Orhan Pamuk
2006 Governor General's Awards: see article
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Katherine PatersonHahn 2015, p. 653
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Belinda Castles, The River Baptists
Caine Prize for African Writing: Mary Watson, "Jungfrau"
Camões Prize: José Luandino Vieira (declined)
Compton Crook Award: Maria Snyder, Poison Study
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Urban Myths: 210 Poems
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Francis Chalifour, AfterFaculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
Eric Gregory Award: Fiona Benson, Retta Bowen, Frances Leviston, Jonathan Morley, Eoghan Walls
Europe Theatre Prize: Harold Pinter
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Wolf Lepenies
Griffin Poetry Prize: Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall, and Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Cormac McCarthy, The Road
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went into the West: The life of R.S. Thomas
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jaya Savige, Latecomers
Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2006 Lambda Literary Awards.
Man Booker Prize: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss.
Miles Franklin Award: Roger McDonald, The Ballad of Desmond Kale
National Book Award for Fiction: Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
National Book Critics Circle Award: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Orange Prize for Fiction: Zadie Smith, On Beauty
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: E. L. Doctorow, The March
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Geraldine Brooks, March
Premio Nadal: Eduardo Lago, Llámame Brooklyn
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Fleur Adcock
SAARC Literary Award: Maitreyi Pushpa, Zahida Hina, Laxman Gaikwad, Tissa Abeysekara
Scotiabank Giller Prize: Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Wallace Stevens Award: Michael Palmer
Whiting Awards: Fiction: Charles D’Ambrosio, Yiyun Li, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Nina Marie Martínez, Patrick O’Keeffe; Plays: Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bruce Norris; Poetry: Sherwin Bitsui, Tyehimba Jess, Suji Kwock Kim
See also
List of literary awards
List of poetry awards
2006 in Australian literature
2006 in comics
Notes
Hahn Daniel The Oxford companion to children's literature 2015 Oxford 978-0-19-871554-2 Second
References
30em
External links
Popular Books of 2006 at Goodreads
Published 2006 Books at Goodreads
2006 Books at Goodreads
Category:2006-related lists