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2006 in Australian literature

Overview of the events of 2006 in literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2006.

Events

  • South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee takes up Australian citizenship[1]
  • Australia's Prime Minister, John Howard, complains about the modern school English syllabus, stating that it is being "dumbed down"[2]
  • Peter Carey's ex-wife, Alison Summers, takes a swipe at the author, accusing him of using his fiction to settle some old scores. She refers to a minor character in Carey's novel Theft: A Love Story (called The Plaintiff) and announces she is also writing a novel, titled Mrs Jekyll[3]
  • the ABC board decides against publishing the new Chris Masters' book Jonestown, an unauthorised biography of Alan Jones, a Sydney radio presenter[4]
  • the Australian Classification Review Board bans two radical Islamic books, prompting calls from the Australian Attorney-General for the Board to provide with even tougher laws[5]
  • a large treasure trove of missing papers belonging to Patrick White is revealed to the public. Contrary to the wishes expressed in White's will, his literary executor, Barbara Mobbs, did not destroy the material but kept it and has since offered it to the National Library of Australia[6]
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Major publications

Literary fiction

Short story collections

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime and Mystery

Romance

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • Peter Andrews – Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved[77]
  • Janine BurkeThe Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection[78]
  • Les CarlyonThe Great War[79]
  • Neil Chenoweth – Packer's Lunch[80]
  • Inga ClendinnenAgamemnon's Kiss[81]
  • Peter Cochrane – Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy[82]
  • Peter Edwards – Arthur Tange: The Last of the Mandarins[83]
  • Ken InglisWhose ABC? : The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1983–2006[84]
  • Justine LarbalestierDaughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century[85]

Biographies

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Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Literary

Fiction

International

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National

Children and Young Adult

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Crime and Mystery

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Poetry

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Deaths

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See also

References

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