Gerald Lampert Award

	Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000. In its earliest years, the award was not necessarily limited to poetry, but was presented to the year's best first book by a Canadian writer in either poetry or prose."Columnist wins award". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...'', April 15, 1982. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External linksLeague of Canadian Poets {{Gerald Lampert Award Canadian poetry awards First book awards Awards established in 1981 1981 establishments in Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	League Of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as the national association of professional and aspiring poets in Canada. The League counts Phyllis Webb, Robert Kroetsch, Susan McCaslin, Barry Dempster, Gay Allison, Micheline Maylor and Margaret Atwood among its membership; it provides funding for poetry readings and competitions, hosts an annual AGM, runs a series of awards, and publishes an electronic newsletter. Membership Members of the League are professional poets who are actively contributing to the development, growth, and public profile of poetry in Canada. They offer two primary levels of membership, as well as student and supporting memberships, open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Full members are poets with an established poetic career, whether with a published book of poetry or a background in performance and spoken word poetry. Assoc ... [...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]
	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]
	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]
	1997 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997. Events February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam. He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30. May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's '' Henry V''. June 3 – The supposed climax of Max Beerbohm's 1916 short story '' Enoch Soames'' occurs at the old British Museum Reading Room in London. June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first ''Harry Potter'' novel, '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies. * July 13 – The release occurs in Ireland of the film of Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel '' The Butcher Boy''. The author plays Jimmy The Skite, the town drunk. * September 1 – '' The Adventures of Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1996 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996. Events July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's '' Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community." July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. * October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play '' The Vagina Monologues''. ''unknown dates'' In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for '' A Spell of Winter''. * Peter O'Donnell publishes '' Cobra Trap'', a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965. Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, '' Lost Laysen'', is published, 80 years after it was written. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ''Romance Writings'', inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in Montreal. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du c ... [...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]
	Saskatoon Star-Phoenix ''The StarPhoenix'' is a daily newspaper that serves Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and is a part of Postmedia Network. It has been referred to as a "sister newspaper" to the ''Regina Leader-Post, Leader-Post''. The ''StarPhoenix'' puts out six editions each week and publishes one weekly, ''The Bridge (newspaper), Bridges''. It is also part of the canada.com web portal. History The ''StarPhoenix'' was first published as ''The Saskatoon Phoenix'' on October 17, 1902 (following a short-lived attempt at a local newspaper, the ''Saskatoon Sentinel''). In 1909, it became a daily paper and, in 1910, was renamed the ''Saskatoon Capital''. The paper was sold and bought several times between its inception and the 1920s, at one point being owned by W. F. Herman, the future owner and publisher of the ''Windsor Star''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1994 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994. Events October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book ''How Late It Was, How Late'' as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial. One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstones, Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Nitrazepam, Mogadon" the following week. November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the Absurdism, absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939 in literature, 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman. December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Icelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000. In its earliest years, the award was not necessarily limited to poetry, but was presented to the year's best first book by a Canadian writer in either poetry or prose."Columnist wins award". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...'', April 15, 1982. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External linksLeague of Canadian Poets {{Gerald Lampert Award Canadian poetry awards First book awards Awards established in 1981 1981 establishments in Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	League Of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as the national association of professional and aspiring poets in Canada. The League counts Phyllis Webb, Robert Kroetsch, Susan McCaslin, Barry Dempster, Gay Allison, Micheline Maylor and Margaret Atwood among its membership; it provides funding for poetry readings and competitions, hosts an annual AGM, runs a series of awards, and publishes an electronic newsletter. Membership Members of the League are professional poets who are actively contributing to the development, growth, and public profile of poetry in Canada. They offer two primary levels of membership, as well as student and supporting memberships, open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Full members are poets with an established poetic career, whether with a published book of poetry or a background in performance and spoken word poetry. Assoc ... [...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]
	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]
	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]
	1997 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997. Events February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam. He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30. May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's '' Henry V''. June 3 – The supposed climax of Max Beerbohm's 1916 short story '' Enoch Soames'' occurs at the old British Museum Reading Room in London. June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first ''Harry Potter'' novel, '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies. * July 13 – The release occurs in Ireland of the film of Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel '' The Butcher Boy''. The author plays Jimmy The Skite, the town drunk. * September 1 – '' The Adventures of Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1996 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996. Events July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's '' Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community." July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. * October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play '' The Vagina Monologues''. ''unknown dates'' In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for '' A Spell of Winter''. * Peter O'Donnell publishes '' Cobra Trap'', a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965. Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, '' Lost Laysen'', is published, 80 years after it was written. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ''Romance Writings'', inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspaper currently published in Montreal. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in Canada. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du c ... [...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]
	Saskatoon Star-Phoenix ''The StarPhoenix'' is a daily newspaper that serves Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and is a part of Postmedia Network. It has been referred to as a "sister newspaper" to the ''Regina Leader-Post, Leader-Post''. The ''StarPhoenix'' puts out six editions each week and publishes one weekly, ''The Bridge (newspaper), Bridges''. It is also part of the canada.com web portal. History The ''StarPhoenix'' was first published as ''The Saskatoon Phoenix'' on October 17, 1902 (following a short-lived attempt at a local newspaper, the ''Saskatoon Sentinel''). In 1909, it became a daily paper and, in 1910, was renamed the ''Saskatoon Capital''. The paper was sold and bought several times between its inception and the 1920s, at one point being owned by W. F. Herman, the future owner and publisher of the ''Windsor Star''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1994 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994. Events October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book ''How Late It Was, How Late'' as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial. One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstones, Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Nitrazepam, Mogadon" the following week. November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the Absurdism, absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939 in literature, 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman. December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Icelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]