Astrid Lindgren Prize

	Astrid Lindgren Prize The Astrid Lindgren Prize () is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to honour Lindgren on her 60th birthday. It is awarded annually on Lindgren's birthday, 14 November, to a Swedish writer for children and young adults; this distinguishes it from the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award () is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). The prize is five million SEK, making it ..., which has a more international focus. Recipients References {{authority control Swedish literary awards Astrid Lindgren Awards established in 1967 1967 establishments in Sweden Astrid Lindgren Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Astrid Lindgren Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (; ; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil i Lönneberga, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (''Children of Noisy Village'' in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels ''Mio, My Son''; ''Ronia the Robber's Daughter''; and ''The Brothers Lionheart''. Lindgren worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm and wrote more than 30 books for children. In 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author. Lindgren had by 2010 sold roughly 167 million books worldwide. In 1994, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children and respect for their individuality". Her opposition to corporal punishment of children resulted in the world's first law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1980 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980. Events March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française. June 5 The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of '' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar. Willy Russell's comedy '' Educating Rita'' opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London. September – A production of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history. September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's '' Translations'', at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland. * November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1993 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi. November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel '' The Shipping News''. ''unknown dates'' * Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel ''Cranes' Morning'' appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994. Professor Stephen Hawking's ''A Brief History of Time'' becomes the longest-running book on ''The Sunday Times'' UK bestseller list. Reality television contest '' Million's Poet'' (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's '' Bajazet'' is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre. The Guodian Chu Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1992 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992. Events July – The ''Goosebumps'' series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States. August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of Abkhazia in Sukhumi during the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), War in Abkhazia by Georgian forces. August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annihilated during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska. September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction ''The English Patient'' is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018 in literature, 2018. New books Fiction Ben Aaronovitch – ''Transit (Aaronovitch novel), Transit'' Tariq Ali – ''Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree'' Paul Auster – ''Leviathan (Auster novel), Leviathan'' Iain Banks – ''The Crow Road'' Clive Barker – ''The Thief of Always'' Julian Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1991 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991. Events February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' at the Queen's Theatre, London. July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel '' The Satanic Verses'', is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book. October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in '' New Writing Scotland''. It is later incorporated into '' Trainspotting''. November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1990 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1990. Events March – Anton Chekhov's play '' Three Sisters'' opens at the Gate Theatre in Dublin with locally born Sinéad, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack in the title rôles and their father Cyril Cusack as Dr. Chebutykin. March 20 – Stephen Blumberg is arrested for stealing more than 23,600 books in North America. May 24 – Alicia Girón García is the first woman to become director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. c. June – J. K. Rowling has the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London: "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." She begins writing '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997. October – Nicci Gerrard marries Sean French in the London Borough of Hackn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1989 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1989. Events February 14 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel '' The Satanic Verses'' ( 1988). On February 24 Iran places a US $3 million bounty on Rushdie's head. On August 3, 1989, a bomb kills Mustafa Mazeh in London as he attempts to plant it in a hotel, in order to carry out the fatwa. March 1 – The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 comes into effect in the United States, making the country a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886. * April 23 – Leading figures of the theatre mark William Shakespeare's birthday with a street party to oppose the destruction of the recently discovered archaeological remains of the English Renaissance Rose Theatre and Globe theatres in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1988 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988. Events March 7 – Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers. May 28– 31 – The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches. June – The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. August 7 – The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends. November 15 – Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 reforms copyright law in the United Kingdom, with special provision for Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children to benefit in perpetuity from royalties in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play '' Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up''. ''unknown date'' – Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel '' Life and Fate'' () is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine '' Oktyabr''. New books Fiction * Caio F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1987 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Events January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication. April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in '' Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field''. June – Virago Press of London publishes ''Down the Road, Worlds Away'', a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1986 In Literature The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1985 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985. Events February 25 – Sue Limb's parodic pastiche of the Lake Poets, ''The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere'', begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. March 1 – The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman is published for the first time, and becomes a fundamental philosophical source within the free software movement. August 11 – A memorial to the poet Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland. ''unknown dates'' – Three notable novels in English by female authors are published during the year: Margaret Atwood's ''The Handmaid's Tale'', Jilly Cooper's '' Riders'', the first of the Rutshire Chronicles, and Jeanette Winterson's '' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit''. New books Fiction Isaac Asimov – '' Robots and Empire'' Margaret Atwood – ''The Handmaid's Tale'' * Jean M. Auel – '' The Mammoth Hunters'' Iain Banks – '' Walking on Glass'' Clive Barker '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1984 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1984. Events * April 4 – The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949) begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's '' The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' ( 1904) is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's '' 1Q84'' (いちきゅうはちよん, ''Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon'', 2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it. * June 16 – Cirque du Soleil is founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. July – Tom Wolfe's novel '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' begins serialization in ''Rolling Stone''. December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is announced in succession to Sir John Betjeman, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. ''unknown dates'' * Prvoslav Vujčić's second poetry collection, ''Kastriranje vetra'' (Castration of the Wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Astrid Lindgren Prize The Astrid Lindgren Prize () is a Swedish literary award for children's literature named after the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The prize was instituted by the publishing house Rabén & Sjögren in 1967 to honour Lindgren on her 60th birthday. It is awarded annually on Lindgren's birthday, 14 November, to a Swedish writer for children and young adults; this distinguishes it from the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award () is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honour the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). The prize is five million SEK, making it ..., which has a more international focus. Recipients References {{authority control Swedish literary awards Astrid Lindgren Awards established in 1967 1967 establishments in Sweden Astrid Lindgren Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Astrid Lindgren Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (; ; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil i Lönneberga, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (''Children of Noisy Village'' in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels ''Mio, My Son''; ''Ronia the Robber's Daughter''; and ''The Brothers Lionheart''. Lindgren worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm and wrote more than 30 books for children. In 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author. Lindgren had by 2010 sold roughly 167 million books worldwide. In 1994, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children and respect for their individuality". Her opposition to corporal punishment of children resulted in the world's first law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1980 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980. Events March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française. June 5 The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of '' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar. Willy Russell's comedy '' Educating Rita'' opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London. September – A production of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history. September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's '' Translations'', at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland. * November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1993 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi. November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel '' The Shipping News''. ''unknown dates'' * Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel ''Cranes' Morning'' appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994. Professor Stephen Hawking's ''A Brief History of Time'' becomes the longest-running book on ''The Sunday Times'' UK bestseller list. Reality television contest '' Million's Poet'' (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's '' Bajazet'' is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre. The Guodian Chu Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1992 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992. Events July – The ''Goosebumps'' series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States. August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of Abkhazia in Sukhumi during the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), War in Abkhazia by Georgian forces. August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annihilated during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska. September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction ''The English Patient'' is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018 in literature, 2018. New books Fiction Ben Aaronovitch – ''Transit (Aaronovitch novel), Transit'' Tariq Ali – ''Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree'' Paul Auster – ''Leviathan (Auster novel), Leviathan'' Iain Banks – ''The Crow Road'' Clive Barker – ''The Thief of Always'' Julian Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1991 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991. Events February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' at the Queen's Theatre, London. July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel '' The Satanic Verses'', is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book. October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in '' New Writing Scotland''. It is later incorporated into '' Trainspotting''. November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1990 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1990. Events March – Anton Chekhov's play '' Three Sisters'' opens at the Gate Theatre in Dublin with locally born Sinéad, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack in the title rôles and their father Cyril Cusack as Dr. Chebutykin. March 20 – Stephen Blumberg is arrested for stealing more than 23,600 books in North America. May 24 – Alicia Girón García is the first woman to become director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. c. June – J. K. Rowling has the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London: "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." She begins writing '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997. October – Nicci Gerrard marries Sean French in the London Borough of Hackn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1989 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1989. Events February 14 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel '' The Satanic Verses'' ( 1988). On February 24 Iran places a US $3 million bounty on Rushdie's head. On August 3, 1989, a bomb kills Mustafa Mazeh in London as he attempts to plant it in a hotel, in order to carry out the fatwa. March 1 – The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 comes into effect in the United States, making the country a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886. * April 23 – Leading figures of the theatre mark William Shakespeare's birthday with a street party to oppose the destruction of the recently discovered archaeological remains of the English Renaissance Rose Theatre and Globe theatres in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1988 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988. Events March 7 – Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers. May 28– 31 – The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches. June – The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. August 7 – The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends. November 15 – Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 reforms copyright law in the United Kingdom, with special provision for Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children to benefit in perpetuity from royalties in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play '' Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up''. ''unknown date'' – Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel '' Life and Fate'' () is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine '' Oktyabr''. New books Fiction * Caio F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1987 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Events January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication. April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in '' Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field''. June – Virago Press of London publishes ''Down the Road, Worlds Away'', a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1986 In Literature The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1985 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985. Events February 25 – Sue Limb's parodic pastiche of the Lake Poets, ''The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere'', begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. March 1 – The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman is published for the first time, and becomes a fundamental philosophical source within the free software movement. August 11 – A memorial to the poet Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland. ''unknown dates'' – Three notable novels in English by female authors are published during the year: Margaret Atwood's ''The Handmaid's Tale'', Jilly Cooper's '' Riders'', the first of the Rutshire Chronicles, and Jeanette Winterson's '' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit''. New books Fiction Isaac Asimov – '' Robots and Empire'' Margaret Atwood – ''The Handmaid's Tale'' * Jean M. Auel – '' The Mammoth Hunters'' Iain Banks – '' Walking on Glass'' Clive Barker '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1984 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1984. Events * April 4 – The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949) begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's '' The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' ( 1904) is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's '' 1Q84'' (いちきゅうはちよん, ''Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon'', 2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it. * June 16 – Cirque du Soleil is founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. July – Tom Wolfe's novel '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' begins serialization in ''Rolling Stone''. December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is announced in succession to Sir John Betjeman, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. ''unknown dates'' * Prvoslav Vujčić's second poetry collection, ''Kastriranje vetra'' (Castration of the Wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]