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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 – Ciaran Creagh'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]

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Children and young people

Genre fiction

Fantasy
Historical
Horror
Humor and satire
Mystery and crime
Romance
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Drama

Poetry

Main article: 2006 in poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Brian Stowell gets big award". North American Manx Association. June 11, 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  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.
  7. ^ "Poetry in the News: 2006". London: The Poetry Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  8. ^ Grossman, Ben (2006-09-20). "WGA's Verrone: "Every Writer Must Have a WGA Contract"". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
  9. ^ Benson, Jim (2006-11-07). "Top Model Takes Strikers Off Payroll". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
  10. ^ Nixon, Rob (October 1, 2006). "A Biafran Story". New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2008.
  11. ^ Gill Rye; Amaleena Damlé (15 April 2013). Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature. University of Wales Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7083-2589-6.
  12. ^ Hiroko Takeda; Mark Williams (21 September 2020). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan. Taylor & Francis. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-134-83001-5.
  13. ^ Canadian Book Review Annual. Peter Martin Associates. 2007. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-0-9732301-7-8.
  14. ^ "Secret of the Sirens: Bk. 1 by Julia Golding". www.waterstones.com. 24 February 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  15. ^ "Hager revealed as author of Brash emails book". Sunday Star-Times. 21 November 2006.
  16. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012
  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. ^ Turner, Jenny (17 April 2006). "Obituary: Dame Muriel Spark". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  19. ^ McDonnell, Jane (19 May 2006). "Obituary: Clare Boylan". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  20. ^ Obits for Life, Edna Staebler Archived 2015-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 11/26/2012
  21. ^ Eccleshare, Julia (15 November 2006). "Obituary: Ursula Moray Williams". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  22. ^ Ottawa Citizen, November 16–18, 2006, George Blackburn – Obituary, Retrieved 11/21/2012
  23. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2006, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Francis Chalifour. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
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