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The year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
[edit] Literature
[edit] Adventure and thriller
[edit] Children's and young adult
[edit] Fantasy
[edit] Historical fiction
[edit] Horror
[edit] Humor, satire
[edit] Mystery, suspense, thriller, espionage and crime fiction
[edit] Romance
[edit] Science fiction
[edit] New drama
[edit] Poetry
See 2006 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] O. Henry Prize stories
Of this[clarification needed] 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
- * Full title: "Letters in the Snow—for kind strangers and unborn children—for the ones lost and most beloved"
- ** "Juror favorites"
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Irving Layton, age 93, Canadian poet
- January 16 - Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer
- January 30 - Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright
- February 2 - Chris Doty, 39, dramatist
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, 85, feminist writer
- February 8 - Michael Gilbert, 93, British crime writer
- February 11 - Peter Benchley, 65, American novelist
- February 17 - Sybille Bedford, 94, novelist and non-fiction writer
- February 20 - Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish writer, journalist and traveller
- February 21 - Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Chuvashian poet and translator
- February 21 - Theodore Draper, 93, historian
- February 22 - Hilde Domin, 96, German writer
- February 24 - Octavia E. Butler, 59, American science fiction writer
- February 25 - Margaret Gibson, 57, Canadian novelist and short story writer
- March 27 - Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer
- March 30 - John McGahern, 73, novelist, dramatist and short story writer
- April 6 - Leslie Norris, age 84, Anglo-Welsh poet and author
- April 13 - Muriel Spark, 88, novelist
- April 25 - Jane Jacobs, 89, urban planning critic and activist
- May 9 - Jerzy Ficowski, 81, poet, writer and translator
- May 17 - Clare Boylan, 58, Irish novelist
- May 18 - Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, novelist and poet
- June 17 - James McClure, age 66, crime writer
- June 28 - Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist
- June 28 - David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist
- July 17 - Mickey Spillane, 88, crime writer
- August 21 - S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli novelist
- August 30 - Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian novelist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature
- September 1 - György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator
- September 4 - Colin Thiele, William Styron, age 81, American novelist
- November 4 - Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer
- November 9 - Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist and critic
- November 10 - Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author
- November 13 - G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher
- November 15 - George G. Blackburn MC,90, Canadian author of Guns of Normandy
- November 23 - Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine
- November 23 - Richard Clements, 78, British journalist
- November 23 - Richard Leopold, 94, American historian
- November 24 - William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine)
- November 24 - Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher
- November 24 - Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, 98, exiled Iranian newspaper publisher
- November 24 - George W. S. Trow, 63, American writer and media critic
- November 27 - Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, Negro author (What You Owe Me)
[edit] 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
- 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
- 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:
[edit] See also
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