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2006 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2006.

Contents

Events

  • April 7 – Mr Justice Peter Smith delivers judgment in the copyright case begun on February 27 against publisher Random House over the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code (2003) in the High Court of Justice in London, finding that author Dan Brown has not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in their book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (published in 1982 as non-fiction). The judgment itself contains a coded message on the whim of the judge.
  • Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace.
  • June – Ciaran Creagh's play Last Call, based loosely on the hanging of murderer Michael Manning in 1954 as witnessed by the playwright's father, is staged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where it is set.
  • July 14The 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 which criticizes 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).
  • July 21 – The writers of America's Next Top Model go on strike while working on Cycle 7, due to be broadcast on the new CW Network in September 2006. The writers seek representation through the Writers Guild of America, which would allow them regulated wages, access to portable health insurance, and pension benefits. These benefits would be similar to those given to writers on scripted shows.
  • 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."
  • November 6 – WGAw files an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after "Top Model" producers say that 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."
  • The first full-length novel in the Manx language, Dunveryssyn yn Tooder-Folley ("The Vampire Murders") is published by Brian Stowell, after being serialized in the press.
  • Fiction

  • Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHalf of a Yellow Sun
  • Chris Adrian – The Children's Hospital (August 28)
  • Naomi AldermanDisobedience
  • Martin AmisHouse of Meetings
  • Margaret AtwoodMoral Disorder
  • François BégaudeauEntre les murs (Between the Walls)
  • Peter BehrensThe Law of Dreams
  • William BoydRestless
  • T. C. BoyleTalk Talk
  • James ChapmanStet (January 7)
  • Douglas CouplandjPod
  • Mark Z. DanielewskiOnly Revolutions
  • Patricia DunckerMiss Webster and Chérif
  • Dave EggersWhat Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (October 25)
  • Wendy GuerraTodos se van (Everyone's Leaving)
  • Rawi HageDe Niro's Game
  • Anosh IraniThe Song of Kahunsha
  • Lloyd JonesMister Pip
  • Vincent LamBloodletting and Miraculous Cures
  • David MitchellBlack Swan Green
  • Alice MunroThe View from Castle Rock
  • Amélie NothombJournal d'Hirondelle
  • Joyce Carol OatesBlack Girl/White Girl
  • Heather O'NeillLullabies for Little Criminals
  • Carolyn ParkhurstLost and Found
  • Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day (November 21)
  • Will SelfThe Book of Dave
  • Olga Slavnikova2017
  • Lynne TillmanAmerican Genius, A Comedy
  • John UpdikeTerrorist (June 6)
  • Mario Vargas LlosaThe Bad Girl (Travesuras de la niña mala)
  • Children and young people

  • Chris Van Allsburg - Probuditi!
  • Dave Barry & Ridley PearsonPeter and the Shadow Thieves (July 15)
  • John BoyneThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Eoin ColferArtemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (September 12, fifth in the Artemis Fowl series)
  • John FardellThe Flight of the Silver Turtle
  • Jean-Luc Fromental - 365 Penguins
  • Julia Golding - Secret of the Sirens (August 3, UK, first in the Companions Quartet)
  • John Green – Looking for Alaska
  • Charlie HigsonBlood Fever (January 1, second in the Young James Bond series)
  • D. J. MacHale – The Quillan Games (May 16)
  • David MitchellBlack Swan Green (April 11)
  • Robert Muchamore
  • Divine Madness (novel) (fifth in the CHERUB series)
  • Man vs Beast (sixth in the CHERUB series)
  • Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
  • Garth NixSir Thursday (March 1) (fourth in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
  • Terry PratchettWintersmith (October 1, third in the Tiffany Aching series)
  • Lemony SnicketThe End (October 13) (13th in A Series of Unfortunate Events)
  • Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion
  • Paul StewartFreeglader (February 28, eighth in The Edge Chronicles)
  • Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's Gate
  • Toshihiko Tsukiji and Senmu – Kämpfer (けんぷファー, November 24)
  • Markus Zusak – The Book Thief (March 14)
  • Fantasy

  • Joe AbercrombieThe Blade Itself (May 4, first in The First Law series)
  • R. Scott Bakker – The Thousandfold Thought (January 20, third in the Prince of Nothing trilogy)
  • Steven EriksonThe Bonehunters (March 1, sixth in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
  • Terry GoodkindPhantom (July 18, 10th in the Sword of Truth series)
  • Laurell K. HamiltonMistral's Kiss (December 12, fifth in the Merry Gentry series)
  • Sherrilyn KenyonDark Side of the Moon (May 30, 15th in the Dark-Hunter series)
  • Gregory KeyesThe Blood Knight (July 11, third in The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series)
  • Dean KoontzBrother Odd (November 28, third in the Odd Thomas series)
  • Tanith LeePiratica II (second in The Piratica Series)
  • Scott Lynch – The Lies of Locke Lamora (June 27, first in the Gentleman Bastards series)
  • Patricia A. McKillipSolstice Wood
  • Zhang Muye – Ghost Blows Out the Light (March)
  • James PattersonSchool's Out — Forever (May 23, second in the Maximum Ride series)
  • Angie SageFlyte (March 1, second in the Septimus Heap series)
  • Darren Shan
  • Bec (October 2, fourth in The Demonata series)
  • Demon Thief (June 7) (second in The Demonata series)
  • Slawter (November 1, third in The Demonata series)
  • Catherynne M. ValenteThe Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (October 31, first volume of The Orphan's Tales)
  • Jeff VanderMeerShriek: An Afterword (August 8)
  • Rick RiordanThe Sea of Monsters
  • Historical fiction

  • Kunal BasuRacists
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • The Lords of the North
  • Sharpe's Fury
  • Charles FrazierThirteen Moons (October 3)
  • Michael MoorcockThe Vengeance of Rome (January 5, fourth in the Pyat Quartet)
  • Naomi NovikTemeraire (January 7)
  • Sarah WatersThe Night Watch (March 23)
  • Jack WhyteKnights of the Black and White (August 8, first in the Templar Trilogy)
  • Gene WolfeSoldier of Sidon (October 31, third book in the Soldier series)
  • Horror

  • James Patterson & Peter de JongeBeach Road (May 1)
  • Victor HeckDownward Spiral (November 27)
  • Stephen King
  • Cell (January 24)
  • Lisey's Story (October 24)
  • Thomas LigottiTeatro Grottesco
  • James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey (ed.) – Evermore
  • Humor and satire

  • Max BarryCompany (January 17)
  • Ben EltonChart Throb
  • Bobby Henderson – The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (March 28)
  • MaddoxThe Alphabet of Manliness (June)
  • Carl HiaasenNature Girl (November 14)
  • Vladimir SorokinDay of the Oprichnik
  • Mystery and crime

  • Gilbert AdairThe Act of Roger Murgatroyd
  • Robert BaerBlow the House Down a novel, (May 30)
  • Mary Higgins ClarkTwo Little Girls in Blue
  • Ranj DhaliwalDaaku (October 6)
  • Michael ConnellyEcho Park (October 9)
  • Patricia Cornwell
  • At Risk (May 23, first in the At Risk series)
  • Book of the Dead (October 24, 15th in the Kay Scarpetta series)
  • Clive CusslerTreasure of Khan (December 5)
  • Jeffery Deaver
  • The Cold Moon (May 30, seventh in the Lincoln Rhyme series)
  • More Twisted (December 16)
  • Nelson DeMilleWild Fire (November 6)
  • Thomas HarrisHannibal Rising (December 5, fourth in the Hannibal Lecter series)
  • Tony HillermanThe Shape Shifter (November 1, 12th in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series)
  • Dean KoontzThe Husband (May 30)
  • Val McDermidThe Grave Tattoo (February 6)
  • James Patterson
  • Cross (November 14, 12th in the Alex Cross series)
  • Judge and Jury (July 31)
  • James Patterson & Maxine PaetroThe 5th Horseman (February 13)
  • Michael SladeKamikaze (November 7)
  • Thomas SullivanThe Water Wolf (October 3)
  • Andrew VachssMask Market
  • Samantha WeinbergSecret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries
  • Jack WhyteThe Eagle (December 26, ninth in the Camulod Chronicles series)
  • Romance

  • Karen Marie MoningDarkfever (October 31)
  • Stephenie MeyerNew Moon
  • Nicholas Sparks – Dear John (October 30)
  • Danielle SteelH.R.H. (October 31)
  • Science fiction

  • Aaron AllstonBetrayal (May 30, first in the Legacy of the Force series)
  • Elizabeth BearCarnival (November 28)
  • Troy DenningTempest (November 28)
  • David Louis EdelmanInfoquake (July 5, first in the Jump 225 trilogy)
  • Drew KarpyshynPath of Destruction: a Novel of the New Republic (September 26)
  • Paul LevinsonThe Plot to Save Socrates (February 6)
  • Cormac McCarthyThe Road (September 26)
  • Yvonne NavarroUltraviolet (March 1)
  • Tim PowersThree Days to Never (August 1)
  • J. D. Robb – Born in Death (November 7, 23rd in the In Death series)
  • Masamune ShirowGhost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor
  • Charles StrossGlasshouse (June 27)
  • Karen Traviss
  • Bloodlines (August 29, second in the Legacy of the Force series)
  • Triple Zero (second in the Star Wars: Republic Commando series)
  • Peter WattsBlindsight (October 3)
  • Stephen Woodworth – From Black Rooms (October 31, fourth in the Violet series), alternate history crime novel
  • Timothy ZahnOutbound Flight (January 31)
  • Drama

  • Salvatore AntonioIn Gabriel's Kitchen
  • Jacob M. AppelArborophilia
  • Tanya BarfieldBlue Door
  • Howard BrentonIn Extremis
  • John CarianiAlmost Maine
  • Nilo CruzBeauty of the Father
  • Brian FrielFaith Healer
  • Richard GreenbergA Naked Girl on the Appian Way
  • Rinne GroffWhat Then
  • Lisa KronWell
  • Neil Labute – Fat Pig
  • David Lindsay-AbaireRabbit Hole
  • Itamar MosesBach at Leipzig
  • Joël Pommerat – Cet enfant
  • Nina RaineRabbit
  • Adam RappRed Light Winter
  • Non-fiction

  • Debby ApplegateThe Most Famous Man in America
  • Karen ArmstrongMuhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
  • Philip BallThe Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
  • Alison BechdelFun Home
  • Christopher CatherwoodA Brief History of the Middle East
  • Rajiv ChandrasekaranImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
  • Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme – My Life in France
  • Richard DawkinsThe God Delusion
  • Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness
  • Alan Downs – The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
  • Wayne Federman with Marshall Terrill and Pete MaravichMaravich
  • Al GoreAn Inconvenient Truth
  • Glenn GreenwaldHow Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
  • John GrishamThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
  • Derrick JensenEndgame
  • Elizabeth KolbertField Notes from a Catastrophe
  • Christian Kracht, Eva Munz and Lukas Nikol – The Ministry of Truth (Die totale Erinnerung)
  • Rohan KriwaczekAn Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
  • Linden MacIntyreCauseway
  • Larry Miller – Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life
  • Max Nemni and Monique NemniYoung Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944
  • Ruth ScurrFatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
  • Richard SennettThe Culture of the New Capitalism
  • Zhi Gang ShaSoul, Mind, Body Medicine
  • James Sites – Inger!
  • Tavis SmileyWhat I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America
  • Hywel WilliamsDays That Changed the World: the 50 Defining Events of World History
  • Deaths

  • January 4Irving Layton, Canadian poet (born 1912)
  • January 16Jan Mark, English children's writer (born 1943)
  • January 30Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (born 1950)
  • January – Hilda Ellis Davidson, English antiquarian and academic (born 1914)
  • February 2Chris Doty, Canadian dramatist (born 1966)
  • February 4Betty Friedan, American feminist writer (born 1921)
  • February 8Michael Gilbert, English crime writer (born 1912)
  • February 9Ena Lamont Stewart, Scottish playwright (born 1912)
  • February 11Peter Benchley, American novelist (born 1940)
  • February 17Sybille Bedford, German-born English novelist and journalist (born 1911)
  • February 20Lucjan 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)
  • February 22Hilde Domin, German writer (born 1909)
  • February 24Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction writer (born 1947)
  • February 25Margaret Gibson, Canadian novelist and story writer (born 1948)
  • March 27Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (born 1921)
  • March 30John McGahern, Irish novelist, dramatist and short story writer (born 1934)
  • April 3Muhammad al-Maghut, Syrian Ismaili poet (born 1934)
  • April 6Leslie Norris, Anglo-Welsh poet and author (born 1921)
  • April 13Muriel Spark, Scottish-born novelist (born 1918)
  • April 25Jane Jacobs, American urban planning critic and activist (born 1916)
  • May 9Jerzy Ficowski, poet, writer and translator (born 1924)
  • May 17 – Clare Boylan, Irish novelist (born 1948)
  • May 18Gilbert Sorrentino, American novelist and poet (born 1929)
  • June 17James H. McClure, South African-born crime writer (born 1939)
  • June 28Nigel Cox, New Zealand novelist (born 1951)
  • July 17Mickey Spillane, American crime writer (born 1918)
  • July 28David Gemmell, English fantasy novelist (born 1948)
  • August 16Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (born 1944)
  • August 17Shamsur Rahman, Bengali poet (born 1929)
  • August 21 – S. Yizhar, Israeli novelist (born 1916)
  • August 25Silva Kaputikyan, Armenian poet (born 1919)
  • August 30Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel laureate (born 1911)
  • September 1György Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer and translator (born 1910)
  • September 12 – Edna Staebler CM, Canadian author and literary journalist (born 1906)
  • October 13 – Protiva Bose, Bengali writer and singer (born 1915)
  • October 17Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer (born 1911)
  • October 25 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (born 1927)
  • November 1 – William Styron, American novelist (born 1925)
  • November 6 – Nelson S. Bond, American writer (born 1908)
  • November 9Ellen Willis, American journalist and critic (born 1941)
  • November 10Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (born 1908)
  • November 15George G. Blackburn MC, Canadian author (born 1917)
  • 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)
  • December 21Philippa Pearce, English children's writer (born 1920)
  • December 26 – John Heath-Stubbs, English poet and translator (born 1918)
  • Awards

  • Nobel Prize in Literature: Orhan Pamuk
  • 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
  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Belinda Castles, The River Baptists
  • Compton Crook Award: Maria Snyder, Poison Study
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Urban Myths: 210 Poems
  • Europe Theatre Prize: Harold Pinter
  • Eric Gregory Award: Fiona Benson, Retta Bowen, Frances Leviston, Jonathan Morley, Eoghan Walls
  • 2006 Governor General's Awards: see article
  • Griffin Poetry Prize: Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall and Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jaya Savige, Latecomers
  • Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2006 Lambda Literary Awards.
  • Man Booker Prize: Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss.
  • Miles Franklin Award: Roger McDonald, The Ballad of Desmond Kale
  • Premio Nadal: Eduardo Lago, Llámame Brooklyn
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Fleur Adcock
  • 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
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Francis Chalifour, After
  • Camões Prize: José Luandino Vieira (refused)
  • Orange Prize for Fiction: to On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to March by Geraldine Brooks
  • National Book Award for Fiction: to The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  • National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The March by E.L. Doctorow
  • References

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