2006 in Literature - Awards

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:
    • 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

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