Literature year 2006

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

16. – 19. March Leipzig Book Fair
August 4, 2006 : Jostein Gaarder's criticism of Israel "God's Chosen People" sparked violent disputes worldwide.
August 2006: Günter Grass ' late confession to former Waffen-SS membership triggers the German literary scandal of the year.
August 2006: Eva Herman's announcement of her Eva principle triggers the German feminism debate of the year.
4-8 October Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country India

Birthdays and anniversaries

January 17 : 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin , North American writer and natural philosopher († 1790)
March 17 : 100th anniversary of the death of Konrad Beyer , German poet and literary historian (* 1834)
April 6 : 100th anniversary of the death of Alexander Lange Kielland , Norwegian author (* 1849)
May 9 : 100th anniversary of the death of Fritz Stavenhagen , Low German playwright (* 1876)
May 20 : 100th anniversary of the death of Claire von Glümer , German writer and translator (* 1825)
May 23 : 100th anniversary of the death of Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian writer and playwright (* 1828)
June 5 : 100th anniversary of the death of Eduard von Hartmann , German philosopher (* 1842)
June 11 : 100th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Hart , German writer and naturalistic literary and theater critic (* 1855)
June 29 : 100th anniversary of the death of Albert Sorel , French writer (* 1842)
July 24th : 100th anniversary of the death of Ferdinand von Saar , Austrian writer, playwright and poet (* 1833)
September 22 : 100th anniversary of the death of Oscar Levertin , Swedish writer (* 1862)
October 14 : 100th birthday of Hannah Arendt , philosopher († 1975)
October 16 : 100th birthday of Dino Buzzati , Italian writer († 1972)
October 20 : 100th birthday of Sakaguchi Ango , Japanese narrator and essayist († 1955)
October 31 : 100th birthday of Lilo Linke , German writer and reporter († 1963)
November 4 : 100th birthday of Sterling North , American writer († 1974)
November 16 : 100th birthday of Henri Charrière , French writer († 1973)
November 18 : 100th birthday of Klaus Mann , German writer († 1949)
November 18 : 100th birthday of Ōta Yōko , Japanese writer († 1963)
November 30 : 100th birthday of John Dickson Carr , American author († 1977)
December 7 : 100th birthday of Eduard Zak , Austrian writer, translator and critic († 1979)
December 13 : 100th birthday of Laurens van der Post , South African writer († 1996)

New releases

Fiction

All in vain - Walter Kempowski
In the beginning they are still children - Petra Hammesfahr
Amina's Restaurant - Michael Lüders
On a day like this - Peter Stamm
The work of the night - Thomas Glavinic
Work and striving - Holger Siemann
Beast - Ally Know
When peeling the onion - Günter Grass
Until noon - Stephenie Meyer
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
Blood Marks - Tess Gerritsen
Buick Rivera - Miljenko Jergović
Candy - Kevin Brooks
Thicket - Scott Smith
Dirac - Dietmar Dath
The Dark Waters of Aberdeen - Stuart MacBride
The Echoes of Memory - Richard Powers
Ice whispering - Bettina Balàka
The Angel Prince - Jörg Kastner
Entre les murs - François Bégaudeau
The Eva Principle - Eva Herman
Flyte - Angie Sage
Perhaps forever - Cecelia Ahern
Good against north wind - Daniel Glattauer
The have-nots - Katharina Hacker
In the miso soup - ryu murakami
In my little country - Jan Weiler
The year of magical thinking - Joan Didion
That didn't calm the children - Alois Hotschnig
A man comes into the room - Nicole Krauss
The State of the Country - Richard Ford
The glow of silence - Nicholas Sparks
Leyla - Feridun Zaimoğlu
I'll turn off the lights - Zoya Pirzad

Love - Stephen King

Path of Destruction - Drew Karpyshyn

The Psalms Controversy - Maarten 't Hart

Pulse - Stephen King

Remaining leave - Tommy Jaud

Seemingly dead - Tess Gerritsen

School of the Unemployed - Joachim Zelter

Sword and Harp - Frank Delaney

The skeleton man - Tony Hillerman

Summer Thieves - Truman Capote

Talk Talk - TC Boyle

The devil of Milan - Martin Suter

The therapy - Sebastian Fitzek

The stairs - Thomas Wiedling

Forgotten Voices - Michael Connelly

The legacy of the wandering whore - Iny Lorentz

The world collector - Ilija Trojanow

The weather 15 years ago - Wolf Haas

How on - Angela Krauss

The Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

drama

The god of slaughter - Yasmina Reza
Nathan Messias - Günter Senkel and Feridun Zaimoglu
Black Virgins - Günter Senkel and Feridun Zaimoglu
The weavers - Felix Mitterer

Further literature

Died

January 4 - Irving Layton , Canadian poet, 93

January 30 - Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright, 55

February 4 - Betty Friedan , American feminist. Author, 85

February 6 - Karin Struck , German writer, 58

February 8 - Michael Gilbert , British crime writer, 93 years old

February 11 - Peter Benchley , American novelist, 65

February 17 - Sybille Bedford , novelist and non-fiction writer, 94

February 20 - Lucjan Wolanowski , Polish writer, journalist and translator, 86

February 21 - Gennadi Ajgi , Chuvash poet and translator, 71

February 22 - Hilde Domin , German writer, 96

February 25 - Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin , Ethiopian poet, 69

February 25 - Margaret Gibson , Canadian writer, 57

March 3 - Martin Selber , German writer, 82

March 12 - Jurij Brězan , Sorbian writer, 89

March 27th - Stanisław Lem , Polish science fiction writer

March 30 - John McGahern , novelist, playwright, and short story writer, 72

April 4 - Jürgen Thorwald , German writer, 90

April 5 - Rolf Recknagel , German writer, 88

April 6 - Leslie Norris , Welsh poet and writer, 84

April 7 - Melissa Nathan , British writer, 37

April 8 - Gerard Reve , Dutch writer, 82

April 13 - Muriel Spark , British novelist, 88

May 6 - Erdal Öz , Turkish writer and publisher, 71

May 9 - Jerzy Ficowski , Polish poet, writer and translator, 81

May 10 - Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev , Russian dissident and writer, 83

May 14 - Günther Nenning , Austrian journalist, writer and political activist, 84

May 18 - Gilbert Sorrentino , American novelist and poet, 77

June 1 - Frederik Hetmann , German writer, 72

June 14 - Günther Deicke , German poet, librettist, translator and publicist, 83

June 21 - Yoshimi Kondō , Japanese poet, 93

June 30th - Robert Gernhardt , German writer, poet, essayist, draftsman and painter, 68

July 6th - Joachim Kupsch , German writer, screenwriter, 80

July 10 - Fred Wander , Austrian writer, 89

July 12 - Hubert Lampo , Belgian writer, 85 years old
July 17 - Mickey Spillane , American crime writer, 88 years old
July 17 - Günter Ebert , German writer, 81
July 28th
- Rut Brandt , Norwegian-German writer and journalist, 86
- Nigel Cox , New Zealand novelist, 55
- David Gemmell , British fantasy author, 57
July 30 - Duygu Asena , Turkish writer and suffragette, 60
August 5 - Gintaras Beresnevičius , Lithuanian religious scholar and writer, 45
August 16 - Alex Buzo , Australian playwright, 62
August 21 - S. Yizhar , Israeli novelist, 89
August 29 - Gerald Green , American writer, 84 years old
August 30 - Nagib Machfus , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 94
September 1 - György Faludy , Hungarian poet, writer and translator, 95
September 2 - Gerhard Amanshauser , Austrian writer, 78
September 4 - Colin Thiele , Australian children's author, 85 years old
September 11th - Joachim Fest , German contemporary historian, journalist and author, 79
September 30th - András Sütö , Hungarian writer (* 1927)
October 4 - Oskar Pastior , Romanian-German poet (* 1927)
October 7th - Anna Politkowskaja , Russian journalist (* 1958)
November 1 - William Styron , American writer, 81
November 30th - Harald Evers , German fantasy author, 49

Literary prizes

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Zsuzsanna Gahse ; Sudabeh Mohafez and Eleonora Hummel (sponsorship award)
Berlin Literature Prize : Durs Grünbein
Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize : Dea Loher
Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize : literary magazine language in the technical age
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Armin Mueller-Stahl
Clemens Brentano Prize : Stefan Weidner , Mohammedanische Temptations
German Book Prize , Katharina Hacker : The have-nots
German Science Fiction Prize : Wolfgang Jeschke : The Cusanus Game
Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Kwang-Kyu Kim
Georg Büchner Prize : Oskar Pastior (posthumous)
Heinrich Mann Prize : Peter von Matt
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry : Sergiy Zhadan and Marija Stepanowa
Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize : Uwe Timm
Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Ralph Dutli
Joseph Breitbach Prize : Wulf Kirsten
Kassel Literature Prize : Gerhard Polt ; Jess Jochimsen (sponsorship award); Awarded 2006/2007
Kleist Prize : Daniel Kehlmann
Mainz town clerk : Patrick Roth
Mara Cassens Prize : Clemens Meyer
Peter Huchel Prize : Uljana Wolf , Kochanie I bought bread
Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair
- Ilija Trojanow : The World Collector (Fiction)
- Franz Schuh : Serious allegations, dirty laundry (non-fiction book / essay writing)
- Ragni Maria Gschwend : Antonio Moresco Awakening (translation)
Prize of the literary houses : Uwe Kolbe
Prize of the SWR best list : Agota Kristof
Würth Prize for European Literature : Herta Müller

International literary prizes

Hugo Award

Robert Charles Wilson , Spin , Category: Best Novel
Connie Willis , Inside Job , Category: Best Short Novel
Peter S. Beagle , Two Hearts , Zwei Herzen , Category: Best Story
David D. Levine , Tk'tk'tk , Category: Best Short Story

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Wolfgang Jeschke, The Cusanus Game , Category: Best Novel
Rainer Erler , An e-Star is born , Category: Best short story / short story
China Miéville , The iron council , Der Eiserne Rat , Category: Best Foreign Work
Gerald Jung , Category: Best Translator
Sascha Mamczak for editing and editing the works of Philip K. Dick , special award
Carl Amery (posthumously) for his life's work, special award

Locus Award

Charles Stross , Accelerando , Accelerando , Category: Best SF Novel
Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys , Anansi Boys , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple , Pay the Piper , Pied Piper , Category: Best Youth Book
Elizabeth Bear , Hammered / Scardown / Worldwired , Category: Best First Novel
Kelly Link , Magic for Beginners , Magic for Beginners , Category: Best Short Novel
Cory Doctorow , I, Robot , Category: Best Narration
Neil Gaiman, Sunbird , Category: Best Short Story
Kelly Link , Magic for Beginners , Category: Best Collection
Ellen Datlow , Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant , The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology