Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. The award is named after novelist and short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ... writer Ethel Wilson, author of '' Swamp Angel'' (1954) and ''The Innocent Traveller'' (1949). Winners and finalists References External linksEthel Wilson Fiction Prize{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001041857/http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/ethel-wilson-fiction-prize/ , date=2012-10-01 , official website BC and Yukon Book Prizes Awards established in 1985 1985 establishments in British Columbia Canadian fiction awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	BC And Yukon Book Prizes The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers. The prizes, as well as the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala in April. The prizes are administered and awarded by the West Coast Book Prize Society. Publicity, organization of the awards and fundraising for the Gala and prize pool was handled by Vancouver marketing and publicity firm, Rebus Creative until the end of 2018. In early 2019, Sean Cranbury was appointed as Executive Director by the Board of the West Coast Book Prize Society to take over production and promotion of the BC & Yukon Book Prizes. In 2021, Sharon Bradley took over as Executive Director, and Megan Cole was hired as the Director of Programming and Communications. In 2019, the prizes announced a name change from BC Book Prizes to BC & Yukon Book Prizes. The award criteria has always been open to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1995 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995. Events January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete '' Blasted'' at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage. February 28 – '' The Diary of Bridget Jones'' column first appears in ''The Independent'' newspaper (London). March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter. April 23 – World Book Day is first celebrated. * July 16 – Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book: Douglas Hofstadter's '' Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought''. August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing. December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's '' Sense and Sensibility'' has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson. ''Uncertain dates'' Simon & Schust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2004 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004. Events January The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea. The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television. February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's '' The Last Crossing'' to be read across the nation. February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public. June 1 – Controversy surrounds '' Battle Royale'' by Koushun Takami (高見広春), when an 11-year-old fan of the story in Sasebo, Nagasaki, murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story. October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature. October 31 – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's '' Suite française'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dead Girls (short Story Collection) ''Dead Girls'' is a Canadian short story collection by author Nancy Lee and was originally published in 2002 by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Each story in the collection stars different characters, and all deal with the themes of eroticism, destruction, power, and loss. ''Dead Girls'' is Lee's debut novel and draws its inspiration from the missing women of Vancouver between 1978 and 2001. Background Reportedly, much of the novel was inspired by the BC Missing Women Investigation, which covered the disappearances of over 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1978 and 2001. Lee was working as a publicist in an office near Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during this time, and was constantly aware of the sex workers on the streets. While the missing women's case was ongoing, Lee recalled an editorial which compared the missing women's case to a series of garage-robberies, in which the editorial asked why the robberies incited $50,000 rewards for anyone with information, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Unless ''Unless'' is the final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, first published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2002. Semi-autobiographical, it was the capstone to Shields's writing career: she died shortly after its publication in 2003. The work was widely acclaimed and nominated for the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2011, it was a finalist in the Canada Reads competition, where it was defended by actor Lorne Cardinal. Like many of her works (especially The Stone Diaries), ''Unless'' explores the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary lives of ordinary women. The novel is narrated in first person by 44-year-old writer and translator, Reta Winters. The book proceeds as a linear series of reflections by Reta, elliptically coming to the thematic center of the story: the seemingly arbitrary decision of Reta's college-aged daughter Norah to drop out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2003 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2003. Events February 12 – An invitation from the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for some poets to attend a conference at the White House is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group for poetry readings across the United States on the same date. February 15 – Anti-war protests occur in London. They are later used as the setting for Ian McEwan's 2005 novel ''Saturday''. March – The University of Mosul library is damaged and looted during the Iraq War, but many volumes are removed for protection by staff. April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down during the Battle of Baghdad. April – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. November 7 – UNESCO places among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity ''wayang kulit'', a shadow p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2002 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2002. Events March 16 – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail the poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth", which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for personal benefit. March 31 – '' American Writers: A Journey Through History'' resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. May – The results of a poll of 100 authors conducted in Norway are announced, leading to the Bokklubben World Library beginning publication. October 16 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina (designed by Snøhetta) is inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt. November – Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, based on the film '' Die Another Day'', bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels featuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2001 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001. Events February 15 – The author Michael Crichton signs a new deal with HarperCollins Publishers that reportedly earns him $40 million for two books. April 1 – The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched. April 13 – The film version of Helen Fielding's 1996 novel '' Bridget Jones's Diary'' has uncredited cameo roles as themselves for Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer, at a literary party. July 19 – The English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, having been found guilty of perjury in a libel trial, is sentenced to imprisonment. * September 19 – Amiri Baraka reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey, eight days after the September 11 attacks. * November 4 – Film premiere of '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', first in the commercially successful ''Harry Potter'' film seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2000 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000. Events February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space. February 13 – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12. March 14 – Stephen King's novella '' Riding the Bullet'' is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book. September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, ''The Accused''. December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, '' Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)'', the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, and is the largest newspaper in western Canada by circulation. Since 2022, it is published five days a week from Tuesday to Saturday. The newspaper was first published on 12 February 1912. It quickly expanded by acquiring other papers, such as the ''Daily News-Advertiser'' and '' The Evening World''. In 1963, the Cromie family sold the majority of its holdings in the ''Sun'' to FP Publications, who later sold the newspaper to Southam Inc. in 1980. The newspaper was taken over by Hollinger Inc. in 1992, and was later sold again to CanWest in 2000. In 2010, the newspaper became part of the Postmedia Network as a result of the collapse of CanWest. History The ''Vancouver Sun'' published its first edition on 12 February 1912. The newspaper was origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1999 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999. Events * May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years. * June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a van while taking a walk. He is hospitalized for three weeks and only resumes writing his next book, '' On Writing'', in July. * September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. ''unknown date'' – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women. New books Fiction Isabel Allende – '' Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna)'' * Aaron Allston '' Solo Command'' '' Starfighters of Adumar'' * Laurie Halse Anderson – '' Speak'' * Max Barry – ''Syrup'' Greg Bear – '' Darwin's Radio'' Raymond Benson '' High Time to Kill'' ''The World Is Not Enough' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1998 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998. Events * March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play ''Not About Nightingales'' receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin Redgrave, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre. * October The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring. Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the ''Kara no Kyōkai'' series, with five chapters released online. * November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel ''Charming Billy''. * December – ''The Strand Magazine#1998 revival, The Strand Magazine'' title is revived in the United States. New books Fiction * Turki al-Hamad – ''Adama'' (first volume in ''Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah'' (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) trilogy) * Tariq Ali � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. The award is named after novelist and short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ... writer Ethel Wilson, author of '' Swamp Angel'' (1954) and ''The Innocent Traveller'' (1949). Winners and finalists References External linksEthel Wilson Fiction Prize{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001041857/http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/ethel-wilson-fiction-prize/ , date=2012-10-01 , official website BC and Yukon Book Prizes Awards established in 1985 1985 establishments in British Columbia Canadian fiction awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	BC And Yukon Book Prizes The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers. The prizes, as well as the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala in April. The prizes are administered and awarded by the West Coast Book Prize Society. Publicity, organization of the awards and fundraising for the Gala and prize pool was handled by Vancouver marketing and publicity firm, Rebus Creative until the end of 2018. In early 2019, Sean Cranbury was appointed as Executive Director by the Board of the West Coast Book Prize Society to take over production and promotion of the BC & Yukon Book Prizes. In 2021, Sharon Bradley took over as Executive Director, and Megan Cole was hired as the Director of Programming and Communications. In 2019, the prizes announced a name change from BC Book Prizes to BC & Yukon Book Prizes. The award criteria has always been open to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1995 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995. Events January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete '' Blasted'' at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage. February 28 – '' The Diary of Bridget Jones'' column first appears in ''The Independent'' newspaper (London). March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter. April 23 – World Book Day is first celebrated. * July 16 – Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book: Douglas Hofstadter's '' Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought''. August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing. December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's '' Sense and Sensibility'' has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson. ''Uncertain dates'' Simon & Schust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2004 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004. Events January The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea. The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television. February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's '' The Last Crossing'' to be read across the nation. February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public. June 1 – Controversy surrounds '' Battle Royale'' by Koushun Takami (高見広春), when an 11-year-old fan of the story in Sasebo, Nagasaki, murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story. October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature. October 31 – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's '' Suite française'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dead Girls (short Story Collection) ''Dead Girls'' is a Canadian short story collection by author Nancy Lee and was originally published in 2002 by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Each story in the collection stars different characters, and all deal with the themes of eroticism, destruction, power, and loss. ''Dead Girls'' is Lee's debut novel and draws its inspiration from the missing women of Vancouver between 1978 and 2001. Background Reportedly, much of the novel was inspired by the BC Missing Women Investigation, which covered the disappearances of over 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1978 and 2001. Lee was working as a publicist in an office near Vancouver's Downtown Eastside during this time, and was constantly aware of the sex workers on the streets. While the missing women's case was ongoing, Lee recalled an editorial which compared the missing women's case to a series of garage-robberies, in which the editorial asked why the robberies incited $50,000 rewards for anyone with information, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Unless ''Unless'' is the final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, first published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2002. Semi-autobiographical, it was the capstone to Shields's writing career: she died shortly after its publication in 2003. The work was widely acclaimed and nominated for the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2011, it was a finalist in the Canada Reads competition, where it was defended by actor Lorne Cardinal. Like many of her works (especially The Stone Diaries), ''Unless'' explores the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary lives of ordinary women. The novel is narrated in first person by 44-year-old writer and translator, Reta Winters. The book proceeds as a linear series of reflections by Reta, elliptically coming to the thematic center of the story: the seemingly arbitrary decision of Reta's college-aged daughter Norah to drop out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2003 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2003. Events February 12 – An invitation from the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for some poets to attend a conference at the White House is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group for poetry readings across the United States on the same date. February 15 – Anti-war protests occur in London. They are later used as the setting for Ian McEwan's 2005 novel ''Saturday''. March – The University of Mosul library is damaged and looted during the Iraq War, but many volumes are removed for protection by staff. April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down during the Battle of Baghdad. April – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. November 7 – UNESCO places among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity ''wayang kulit'', a shadow p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2002 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2002. Events March 16 – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail the poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth", which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for personal benefit. March 31 – '' American Writers: A Journey Through History'' resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. May – The results of a poll of 100 authors conducted in Norway are announced, leading to the Bokklubben World Library beginning publication. October 16 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina (designed by Snøhetta) is inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt. November – Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, based on the film '' Die Another Day'', bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels featuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2001 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001. Events February 15 – The author Michael Crichton signs a new deal with HarperCollins Publishers that reportedly earns him $40 million for two books. April 1 – The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched. April 13 – The film version of Helen Fielding's 1996 novel '' Bridget Jones's Diary'' has uncredited cameo roles as themselves for Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer, at a literary party. July 19 – The English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, having been found guilty of perjury in a libel trial, is sentenced to imprisonment. * September 19 – Amiri Baraka reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey, eight days after the September 11 attacks. * November 4 – Film premiere of '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', first in the commercially successful ''Harry Potter'' film seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2000 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000. Events February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space. February 13 – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12. March 14 – Stephen King's novella '' Riding the Bullet'' is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book. September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, ''The Accused''. December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, '' Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)'', the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Vancouver Sun The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network, and is the largest newspaper in western Canada by circulation. Since 2022, it is published five days a week from Tuesday to Saturday. The newspaper was first published on 12 February 1912. It quickly expanded by acquiring other papers, such as the ''Daily News-Advertiser'' and '' The Evening World''. In 1963, the Cromie family sold the majority of its holdings in the ''Sun'' to FP Publications, who later sold the newspaper to Southam Inc. in 1980. The newspaper was taken over by Hollinger Inc. in 1992, and was later sold again to CanWest in 2000. In 2010, the newspaper became part of the Postmedia Network as a result of the collapse of CanWest. History The ''Vancouver Sun'' published its first edition on 12 February 1912. The newspaper was origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1999 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999. Events * May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years. * June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a van while taking a walk. He is hospitalized for three weeks and only resumes writing his next book, '' On Writing'', in July. * September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. ''unknown date'' – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women. New books Fiction Isabel Allende – '' Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna)'' * Aaron Allston '' Solo Command'' '' Starfighters of Adumar'' * Laurie Halse Anderson – '' Speak'' * Max Barry – ''Syrup'' Greg Bear – '' Darwin's Radio'' Raymond Benson '' High Time to Kill'' ''The World Is Not Enough' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1998 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998. Events * March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play ''Not About Nightingales'' receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin Redgrave, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre. * October The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring. Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the ''Kara no Kyōkai'' series, with five chapters released online. * November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel ''Charming Billy''. * December – ''The Strand Magazine#1998 revival, The Strand Magazine'' title is revived in the United States. New books Fiction * Turki al-Hamad – ''Adama'' (first volume in ''Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah'' (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) trilogy) * Tariq Ali � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]