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- 29 November, 2006 - The 2006 Costa Book Awards (formerly Whitbread Book Awards) shortlist has been announced. (CBA site)
- 19 November, 2006 - The 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has announced its longlist of 138 novels. (Award homepage, Guardian)
- 16 November, 2006 - The 2006 National Book Awards' fiction prize went to Richard Powers for his The Echo Maker, Nathaniel Mackey got the poetry prize for his poetry collection Splay Anthem and the nonfiction prize was awarded to Timothy Egan for The Worst Hard Time. (The National Book Foundation)
- 9 November, 2006 - The 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize has been given to Vincent Lam for his debut work Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. (Award site)
- 6 November, 2006 - American author Jonathan Littell won the 2006 Prix Goncourt, for his work Les Bienveillantes (Les Bienveillantes). (The Burnt Ones blog)
- 1 November, 2006 - William Styron, American Pulitzer Prize-winning (The Confessions of Nat Turner) author dies. (Vineyard Gazette)
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