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

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.^[1]
Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace.^[2]
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 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 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).^[3]
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 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."^[4]
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."^[5]
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.

New books

Science fiction

Aaron Allston – Betrayal (May 30, first in the Legacy of the Force series)
Elizabeth Bear – Carnival (November 28)
Troy Denning – Tempest (November 28)
David Louis Edelman – Infoquake (July 5, first in the 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 the 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 the Legacy of the Force series)
- Triple Zero (second in the Star Wars: Republic Commando series)
Peter Watts – Blindsight (October 3)
Stephen Woodworth – From Black Rooms (October 31, fourth in the Violet series), alternate history crime novel
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
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
Nina Raine – Rabbit
Adam Rapp – Red Light Winter

Poetry

Main article: 2006 in poetry

Non-fiction

Debby Applegate – The Most Famous Man in America
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
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
Alain de Botton – The 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 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
Derrick Jensen – Endgame
Elizabeth Kolbert – Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Rohan Kriwaczek – An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
Linden MacIntyre – Causeway^[6]
John McQuaid & Mark Schleifstein – Path of Destruction: the Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms
Larry Miller – Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life
Max Nemni and Monique Nemni – Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944
Richard Sennett – The Culture of the New Capitalism
Zhi Gang Sha – Soul, Mind, Body Medicine
James Sites – Inger!
Tavis Smiley – What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America
Hywel Williams – Days That Changed the World: the 50 Defining Events of World History

Births

Deaths

January 4 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (born 1912)
January 16 – Jan Mark, English children's writer (born 1943)
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)
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)
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)
February 22 – Hilde Domin, German writer (born 1909)
February 24 – Octavia E. Butler, American science fiction writer (born 1947)
February 25 – Margaret Gibson, Canadian novelist and story writer (born 1948)
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)
April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish-born novelist (born 1918)
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American urban planning critic and activist (born 1916)
May 9 – Jerzy Ficowski, poet, writer and translator (born 1924)
May 17 – Clare Boylan, Irish novelist (born 1948)
May 18 – Gilbert Sorrentino, American novelist and poet (born 1929)
June 17 – James H. McClure, South African-born crime writer (born 1939)
June 28 – Nigel Cox, New Zealand novelist (born 1951)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American crime writer (born 1918)
July 28 – David Gemmell, English fantasy novelist (born 1948)
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 laureate (born 1911)
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer and translator (born 1910)
September 12 – Edna Staebler CM, Canadian author and literary journalist (born 1906)^[7]
October 13 – Protiva Bose, Bengali writer and singer (born 1915)
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 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)^[8]
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 21 – Philippa 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^[9]
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

↑ "Judge creates own Da Vinci code". BBC News. 2006-04-27. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
↑ "The rise and rise of the Brutalists". Books Blog (London: The Guardian). August 19, 2008. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
↑ "Poetry in the News: 2006". London: The Poetry Society. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ Grossman, Ben (2006-09-20). "WGA's Verrone: "Every Writer Must Have a WGA Contract"". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
↑ Benson, Jim (2006-11-07). "Top Model Takes Strikers Off Payroll". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012
↑ Obits for Life, Edna Staebler, Retrieved 11/26/2012
↑ Ottawa Citizen, November 16–18, 2006, George Blackburn – Obituary, Retrieved 11/21/2012
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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