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The year 2006 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- Summer - Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace.[1]
- 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 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."[2]
- 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."[3]
- 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.
Books
Literature
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
- Chris Adrian - The Children's Hospital (August 28)
- Martin Amis - House of Meetings
- Margaret Atwood - Moral Disorder
- François Bégaudeau - Entre les murs
- 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)
- Wendy Guerra - Todos se van ("Everyone's Leaving")
- Rawi Hage - De Niro's Game
- Anosh Irani - The Song of Kahunsha
- Vincent Lam - Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
- Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock
- 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)
- Will Self - The Book of Dave
- Olga Slavnikova - 2017
- Lynne Tillman - American Genius, A Comedy
- John Updike - Terrorist (June 6)
- Mario Vargas Llosa - The Bad Girl (Travesuras de la niña mala)
Children's and young adult fiction
- Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson - Peter and the Shadow Thieves (July 15)
- John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (September 12) (fifth in the Artemis Fowl series)
- Charlie Higson - Blood Fever (January 1) (second in the Young James Bond series)
- D. J. MacHale - The Quillan Games (May 16)
- David Mitchell - Black Swan Green (April 11)
- Robert Muchamore
- Divine Madness (novel) (fifth in the CHERUB series)
- Man vs Beast (sixth in the CHERUB series)
- Garth Nix - Sir Thursday (March 1) (fourth in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
- Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith (October 1) (third in the Tiffany Aching series)
- Lemony Snicket - The End (October 13) (13th in A Series of Unfortunate Events)
- Paul Stewart - Freeglader (US) (February 28) (eighth in The Edge Chronicles)
- Jonathan Stroud - Ptolemy's Gate
- Toshihiko Tsukiji and Senmu - Kämpfer (November 24)
- Markus Zusak - The Book Thief (March 14)
Fantasy
- Joe Abercrombie - The 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 Erikson - The Bonehunters (March 1) (sixth in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
- Terry Goodkind - Phantom (July 18) (10th in the Sword of Truth series)
- Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral's Kiss (December 12) (fifth in the Merry Gentry series)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon - Dark Side of the Moon (May 30) (15th in the Dark-Hunter 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 the Odd Thomas series)
- Tanith Lee - Piratica II (second in The Piratica Series)
- Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora (June 27) (first in the Gentleman Bastards series)
- Patricia A. McKillip - Solstice Wood
- Zhang Muye - Ghost Blows Out the Light (March)
- James Patterson - School's Out — Forever (May 23) (second in the Maximum Ride series)
- Angie Sage - Flyte (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. Valente - The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (October 31) (first volume of The Orphan's Tales)
- Jeff VanderMeer - Shriek: An Afterword (August 8)
Historical fiction
- Kunal Basu - Racists
- Bernard Cornwell
- Charles Frazier - Thirteen Moons (October 3)
- Michael Moorcock - The Vengeance of Rome (January 5) (fourth in the Pyat Quartet)
- Naomi Novik - Temeraire (January 7)
- 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, 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 & 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 the 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 the Hannibal Lecter series)
- Tony Hillerman - The Shape Shifter (November 1) (12th in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series)
- Dean Koontz - The Husband (May 30)
- Val McDermid - The Grave Tattoo (February 6)
- James Patterson
- Cross (November 14) (12th in the 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 the 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)
Science fiction
- Aaron Allston - Betrayal (May 30) (first in the Legacy of the Force series)
- Troy Denning - Tempest
- 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)
New 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
- 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
- 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 Terrill and Maravich) - MARAVICH: The Definitive biography of Pistol Pete 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[4]
- 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
Short stories
Out of 40 stories published in both of these two annual anthologies, stories from The New Yorker are represented eight times, Zoetrope: All-Story four times, Tin House and One Story three times each, and all of these magazines had stories in both collections.
Best American Short Stories 2006
Of 20 stories, four came from The New Yorker, three from Zoetrope: All-Story and two each from The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House and One Story.
| Paul Yoon | "Once the Shore" | One Story |
| Tobias Wolff | "Awaiting Orders" | The New Yorker |
| Donna Tartt | "The Ambush" | Tin House |
| Maxine Swann | "Secret" | Ploughshares |
| Mark Slouka | "Dominion" | TriQuarterly |
| Patrick Ryan | "So Much for Artemis" | One Story |
| Benjamin Percy | "Refresh, Refresh" | The Paris Review |
| Edith Pearlman | "Self-Reliance" | Lake Effect |
| Alice Munro | "The View from Castle Rock" | The New Yorker |
| Kevin Moffett | "Tattooizm" | Tin House |
| Thomas McGuane | "Cowboy" | The New Yorker |
| Jack Livings | "The Dog" | The Paris Review |
| Yiyun Li | "After a Life" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| Aleksandar Hemon | "The Conductor" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Gaitskill | "Today I’m Yours" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| Nathan Englander | "How We Avenged the Blums" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Robert Coover | "Grandmother’s Nose" | Daedalus |
| David Bezmozgis | "A New Gravestone for an Old Grave" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| Katherine Bell | "The Casual Car Pool" | Ploughshares |
| Ann Beattie with Harry Mathews | "Mr. Nobody at All" | McSweeney’s |
O. Henry Prize stories
Of this year's 20 stories, four came from The New Yorker, four from Epoch, and two each from Harper's Magazine, One Story and The Georgia Review
| Edward P. Jones | "Old Boys, Old Girls"** | The New Yorker |
| Jackie Kay | "You Go When You Can No Longer Stay" | Granta |
| Lydia Peelle | "Mule Killers" | Epoch |
| Paula Fox | "The Broad Estates of Death" | Harper's Magazine |
| Neela Vaswani | "The Pelvis Series" | Epoch |
| David Lawrence Morse | "Conceived" | One Story |
| William Trevor | "The Dressmaker’s Child" | |
| Stephanie Reents | "Disquisition on Tears" | Epoch |
| David Means | "Sault Ste. Marie" | Harper's Magazine |
| Karen Brown | "Unction" | The Georgia Review |
| Terese Svoboda | "’80s Lilies" | Indiana Review |
| Alice Munro | "Passion"** | The New Yorker |
| George Makana Clark | "The Center of the World" | The Georgia Review |
| Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | "Wolves" | Prairie Schooner |
| Douglas Trevor | "Girls I Know" | Epoch |
| Louise Erdrich | "The Plague of Doves" | The New Yorker |
| Xu Xi | "Famine" | Ploughshares |
| Lara Vapnyar | "Puffed Rice and Meatballs" | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| Melanie Rae Thon | "Letters in the Snow [...]"* | One Story |
| Deborah Eisenberg | "Window"** | Tin House |
- * Full title: "Letters in the Snow—for kind strangers and unborn children—for the ones lost and most beloved"
- ** "Juror favorites"
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 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)[5]
- October 13 – Protiva Bose, Bengali writer and singer (born 1915)
- November 1 – William Styron, American novelist (born 1925)
- November 4 – 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)[6]
- 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 Writers' Awards:
- Poetry: Sherwin Bitsui, Tyehimba Jess, Suji Kwock Kim
- Fiction: Charles D’Ambrosio, Yiyun Li, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Nina Marie Martínez, Patrick O’Keeffe
- Plays: Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bruce Norris
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Francis Chalifour, After[7]
- 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
See also
References
- ↑ "The rise and rise of the Brutalists". Books Blog (London: The Guardian). August 19, 2008. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
- ↑ 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