Convenors' Award For Excellence (Aurealis Award)

	Convenors' Award For Excellence (Aurealis Award) The Convenors' Award for Excellence is one of the Aurealis Awards presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, Horror fiction, horror writers". The Convenors' Award, awarded at the discretion of the convenors, recognises "a particular achievement in speculative fiction or related areas" that cannot otherwise be judged for the Aurealis Awards, usually because it does not fit into any of the Aurealis categories. Works nominated for the Convenor's Award for Excellence can be non-fiction, artwork, film, television, electronic or multimedia work. The work can be speculative fiction, or a speculative fiction related work "which brings credit or attention to the speculative fiction genres". Between 2004 and 2012 the award was known as the Peter McNamara Award for Excellence, in honour of the publisher, editor and original convenor of the awards, who died in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aurealis Awards The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ''Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of '' Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2005 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005. Events * January 16 – This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of ''Don Quixote'' in Spain. February 25 – Canada Reads selects '' Rockbound'' by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series '' Doctor Who'' returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer. April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30. June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales. * August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time. New books Fiction * Tariq Ali – ''A Sultan in Palermo'' * Rajaa Alsanea – '' Girls of Riyadh'' (بنات الرياض, ''Banat al-Riy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events May 20 – Writers who sign a letter calling for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union include Hilary Mantel, John le Carré, Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard; nevertheless, the June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum endorses Brexit. May 24 – Hundreds of US writers, including Stephen King, Robert Polito and Nicole Krauss, sign an "open letter to the American people" urging them not to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the November 2016 United States presidential election. * November 26 – UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''. February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alisa Krasnostein Alisa is a female given name, a version of Alice in used in Russia, Finland, Estonia and other countries. Notable people with the names Alisa and Alissa include: Alisa People Alisa Agafonova (born 1991), Ukrainian former competitive ice dancer Alisa Ahmann (born 1994), German fashion model Alisa Bellettini (1954-2016), American television producer Alisa Bokulich, American philosopher of science * Alisa Buchinger (born 1992), Austrian karateka Alisa Burras (born 1975), American former professional basketball player Alisa Camplin (born 1974), Australian aerial skier Alisa Childers (born 1975), American singer and songwriter Alisa Chumachenko, Lithuanian entrepreneur Alisa Craig (1922-2005), American novelist Charlotte MacLeod’s pen name Alisa Drei (born 1978), Finnish former competitive figure skater Alisa Durbrow (born 1988), Japanese model, actress, and singer Alisa Efimova (born 1999), Finnish-Russian pair skater Alisa Fedichkina (born 2002), Russian competitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2015 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and '' Bring Up the Bodies''. March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, appar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2014 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month. January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. * March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel ''The Orenda'' wins the 2014 edition of '' Canada Reads''. April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates. May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of ''Beowulf'' is first published. (His essay " On Translating Beowulf" had appeared in 1940). * June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL. * November 25 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. 26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, '' The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. 23 April – World Book Night. * 28 April – '' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. 1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2012 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012. Events * January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death. January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from '' The Satanic Verses'', which is banned in the country. February – James Joyce's children's story '' The Cats of Copenhagen'' is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin. March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years. April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book '' Beijing Coma'' and cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tansy Rayner Roberts Tansy Rayner Roberts (born 22 May 1978) is an Australian fantasy writer. Her short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' and '' Aurealis''. She also writes crime fiction as Livia Day. Biography Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. She currently lives with her husband and two children in Tasmania. Work In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for ''Splashdance Silver'' (1998, Bantam). A sequel, ''Liquid Gold'', and the chapbook novelette ''Hobgoblin Boots'' are also both set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore.' The books have subsequently been republished in ebook by FableCroft Publishing, with a third novel in the series, ''Ink Black Magic'', also being published by FableCroft Publishing in 2013. ''Ink Black Magic'' was shortlisted for the Best Fantasy Novel category of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2011 In Literature Eleven or 11 may refer to: * 11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn ''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith ''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle ''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff ''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music * Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label * Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2010 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2010. Events February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened. April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel '' Tinkers'' (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — '' The Graveyard Book''. * July 27 – Stieg Larsson's ''Millennium Trilogy'' becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010. On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, December 12, 2010, ''The Washington Post''. * August 13 – ''Time'' magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2009 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009. Events April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library. May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman in the position; she is also the first Scottish people, Scot and the first Closeted, openly gay occupant of the post. May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's Narrative poetry, narrative poem ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún'' in alliterative verse, based on the 13th century ''Poetic Edda'' and probably written in the 1930s, is published posthumously. May 16–May 25, 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford but resigns nine days later after it is alleged she was involved in what some sources call as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, a rival for the post. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Convenors' Award For Excellence (Aurealis Award) The Convenors' Award for Excellence is one of the Aurealis Awards presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, Horror fiction, horror writers". The Convenors' Award, awarded at the discretion of the convenors, recognises "a particular achievement in speculative fiction or related areas" that cannot otherwise be judged for the Aurealis Awards, usually because it does not fit into any of the Aurealis categories. Works nominated for the Convenor's Award for Excellence can be non-fiction, artwork, film, television, electronic or multimedia work. The work can be speculative fiction, or a speculative fiction related work "which brings credit or attention to the speculative fiction genres". Between 2004 and 2012 the award was known as the Peter McNamara Award for Excellence, in honour of the publisher, editor and original convenor of the awards, who died in 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Aurealis Awards The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ''Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of '' Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2005 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005. Events * January 16 – This is the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes' publication of the first part of ''Don Quixote'' in Spain. February 25 – Canada Reads selects '' Rockbound'' by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series '' Doctor Who'' returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer. April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30. June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales. * August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time. New books Fiction * Tariq Ali – ''A Sultan in Palermo'' * Rajaa Alsanea – '' Girls of Riyadh'' (بنات الرياض, ''Banat al-Riy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events May 20 – Writers who sign a letter calling for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union include Hilary Mantel, John le Carré, Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard; nevertheless, the June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum endorses Brexit. May 24 – Hundreds of US writers, including Stephen King, Robert Polito and Nicole Krauss, sign an "open letter to the American people" urging them not to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the November 2016 United States presidential election. * November 26 – UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''. February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Alisa Krasnostein Alisa is a female given name, a version of Alice in used in Russia, Finland, Estonia and other countries. Notable people with the names Alisa and Alissa include: Alisa People Alisa Agafonova (born 1991), Ukrainian former competitive ice dancer Alisa Ahmann (born 1994), German fashion model Alisa Bellettini (1954-2016), American television producer Alisa Bokulich, American philosopher of science * Alisa Buchinger (born 1992), Austrian karateka Alisa Burras (born 1975), American former professional basketball player Alisa Camplin (born 1974), Australian aerial skier Alisa Childers (born 1975), American singer and songwriter Alisa Chumachenko, Lithuanian entrepreneur Alisa Craig (1922-2005), American novelist Charlotte MacLeod’s pen name Alisa Drei (born 1978), Finnish former competitive figure skater Alisa Durbrow (born 1988), Japanese model, actress, and singer Alisa Efimova (born 1999), Finnish-Russian pair skater Alisa Fedichkina (born 2002), Russian competitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2015 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2015. Events January 21 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) launches a six-part television miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels ''Wolf Hall'' and '' Bring Up the Bodies''. March 8 – The BBC launches a new television series of Winston Graham's ''Poldark'' novels. March 10 – Jacek Dukaj's cyberpunk novel ''The Old Axolotl'' is published in its original Polish version as ' as purely electronic literature including hypertext and 3D printable character models. March 19 – Kim Thúy's novel '' Ru'' wins the 2015 edition of ''Canada Reads''. July 7 – Jeff Lindsay releases his final novel in the "Dexter" series, writing off Dexter Morgan two years after the final episode in the television series. c. October 14 – Start of Causeway Bay Books disappearances: Five staff of the political bookseller Causeway Bay Books in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, go missing, appar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2014 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month. January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. * March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel ''The Orenda'' wins the 2014 edition of '' Canada Reads''. April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates. May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of ''Beowulf'' is first published. (His essay " On Translating Beowulf" had appeared in 1940). * June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL. * November 25 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013. Events * 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted. 26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204. 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries. April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, '' The Cuckoo's Calling'', under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July. 23 April – World Book Night. * 28 April – '' The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'', Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London. 1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger. 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2012 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012. Events * January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death. January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from '' The Satanic Verses'', which is banned in the country. February – James Joyce's children's story '' The Cats of Copenhagen'' is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin. March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years. April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book '' Beijing Coma'' and cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tansy Rayner Roberts Tansy Rayner Roberts (born 22 May 1978) is an Australian fantasy writer. Her short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' and '' Aurealis''. She also writes crime fiction as Livia Day. Biography Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. She currently lives with her husband and two children in Tasmania. Work In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for ''Splashdance Silver'' (1998, Bantam). A sequel, ''Liquid Gold'', and the chapbook novelette ''Hobgoblin Boots'' are also both set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore.' The books have subsequently been republished in ebook by FableCroft Publishing, with a third novel in the series, ''Ink Black Magic'', also being published by FableCroft Publishing in 2013. ''Ink Black Magic'' was shortlisted for the Best Fantasy Novel category of the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2011 In Literature Eleven or 11 may refer to: * 11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn ''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith ''Eleven'', a 2004 children's novel in The Winnie Years by Lauren Myracle ''Eleven'', a 2008 children's novel by Patricia Reilly Giff ''Eleven'', a short story by Sandra Cisneros Music * Eleven (band), an American rock band * Eleven: A Music Company, an Australian record label * Up to eleven, an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie ''This Is Spinal Tap'' Albums * ''11'' (The Smithereens album), 1989 * ''11'' (Ua album), 1996 * ''11'' (Bryan Adams album), 2008 * ''11'' (Sault album), 2022 * ''Eleven'' (Harry Connick, Jr. album), 1992 * ''Eleven'' (22-Pistepirkko album), 1998 * ''Eleven'' (Sugarcult album), 1999 * ''Eleven'' (B'z album), 2000 * ''Eleven'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2010 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2010. Events February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened. April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel '' Tinkers'' (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — '' The Graveyard Book''. * July 27 – Stieg Larsson's ''Millennium Trilogy'' becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010. On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, December 12, 2010, ''The Washington Post''. * August 13 – ''Time'' magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2009 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009. Events April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library. May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman in the position; she is also the first Scottish people, Scot and the first Closeted, openly gay occupant of the post. May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's Narrative poetry, narrative poem ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún'' in alliterative verse, based on the 13th century ''Poetic Edda'' and probably written in the 1930s, is published posthumously. May 16–May 25, 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford but resigns nine days later after it is alleged she was involved in what some sources call as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, a rival for the post. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]