2006 in literature

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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.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • April 7–9 – First Jaipur Literature Festival held in India.[3]
  • Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched through the social networking site Myspace.[4]
  • June 14 – '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.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • 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).[7]
  • 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."[8]
  • 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."[9]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Genre fiction[]

Fantasy
Historical
Horror
  • James Patterson & Peter de Jonge – Beach Road (May 1)
  • Victor Heck – Downward Spiral (November 27)
  • Stephen King
  • Thomas Ligotti – Teatro Grottesco
  • James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey (ed.) – Evermore
Humor and satire
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
  • 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)
Scifi
  • 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[]

Main article: 2006 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Chris Anderson – The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
  • 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
  • Jean-Pierre Corteggiani – The Pyramids of Giza: Facts, Legends and Mysteries
  • Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
  • Alain de Botton – The Architecture of Happiness
  • Nora Ephron – I Feel Bad About My Neck
  • Larry Fassler – Busted by the Feds
  • 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 Men[15]
  • Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (長谷川毅) – Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
  • 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 – Causeway[16]
  • Larry Miller – Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life
  • Max Nemni and Monique Nemni – Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944
  • 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 Autobiography[17]
  • Hywel Williams – Days That Changed the World: the 50 Defining Events of World History
  • – What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It

Deaths[]

  • January 4 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (born 1912)
  • January 12 – Hilda Ellis Davidson, English antiquarian and academic (born 1914)
  • 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)[18]
  • 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)[19]
  • 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)[20]
  • April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch novelist and poet (born 1923)
  • April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish-born novelist (born 1918)[21]
  • April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American urban planning critic and activist (born 1916)
  • May 9 – Jerzy Ficowski, poet, writer and translator (born 1924)
  • May 16 – Clare Boylan, Irish novelist (born 1948)[22]
  • 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)[23]
  • 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 laureate (born 1911)[24]
  • September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer and translator (born 1910)
  • September 12 – Edna Staebler CM, Canadian author and literary journalist (born 1906)[25]
  • October 13 – Protiva Bose, Bengali writer and singer (born 1915)
  • October 17 – Ursula Moray Williams, English children's writer (born 1911)[26]
  • October 25 – Paul Ableman, English writer of erotic fiction and playwright (born 1927)
  • November 1 – William Styron, American novelist (born 1925)[27]
  • 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)[28]
  • November 23
  • 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

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See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Judge creates own Da Vinci code". BBC News. 2006-04-27. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
  3. ^ Reddy, Sheela (2006-04-17). "Pen On The Rostrum". Outlook. India. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  4. ^ "The rise and rise of the Brutalists". Books Blog. London: The Guardian. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  5. ^ "Arresting play on way to historic gaol in Wicklow". independent.ie. 13 July 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  6. ^ Christie's (2006-06-07) Sale 7233: Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books London, King Street. Lots 18–38. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
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  9. ^ Benson, Jim (2006-11-07). "Top Model Takes Strikers Off Payroll". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
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  12. ^ Hiroko Takeda; Mark Williams (21 September 2020). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-134-83001-5.
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  17. ^ CBA Libris Awards 2007 (PDF) (PDF), Canadian Booksellers Association, 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-20, retrieved 2008-02-09
  18. ^ Woo, Elaine (February 4, 2006). "Betty Friedan, Philosopher Of Modern-day Feminism, Dies". Los Angeles Times.
  19. ^ "Jaws author Peter Benchley dies". BBC News. BBC. February 13, 2006. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
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  22. ^ McDonnell, Jane (19 May 2006). "Obituary: Clare Boylan". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  23. ^ "Mickey Spillane, 88, Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels, Dies". The New York Times. 18 July 2006.
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  26. ^ Eccleshare, Julia (15 November 2006). "Obituary: Ursula Moray Williams". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  27. ^ The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature. University of North Carolina Press. 2006. p. 438. ISBN 978-0-8078-3190-8.
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  29. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
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