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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