ReLit Awards

	ReLit Awards The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey. Subtitled'' Ideas, Not Money'' the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature."ReLit award winners named". ''Ottawa Citizen'', July 27, 2008. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar, but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet. The award was known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2006 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2006. Events March – The first full-length original novel in the Manx language, ''Dunveryssyn yn Tooder-Folley'' ("The Vampire Murders"), is published by Brian Stowell, after being serialized in the press. April 7 – Justice Peter Smith concludes in a case of February 27 in the London High Court of Justice against the publisher Random House over the bestselling novel ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), that the author, Dan Brown, has not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in their '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982, non-fiction). The judgment also contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. April 7– 9 – First Jaipur Literature Festival held in India. Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched through the social networking site Myspace. June 14 – Ciaran Creagh's play ''Last Call'', based loosely on the hanging of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2017 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events March – Emulating Kerouac's '' On the Road'', Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as '' 1 the Road'' in 2018. August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. * August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. December – Kristen Roupenian's short story " Cat Person" is published in ''The New Yorker'' and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events March 11 – Jean Martin's ''The Raped Little Runaway'' becomes the first book since 1998 to be banned in the Republic of Ireland by its Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland), Censorship of Publications Board, being deemed "indecent or obscene" on account of repeated reference to child rape. 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. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	CBC Books CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', ''Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', ''Exhibitionists (TV series), Exhibitionists'', ''The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show (''The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries (''Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both wr ... [...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 7 – ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting: An attack on the leading Franch satirical weekly kills 12 and wounds 11. This week's cover features Michel Houellebecq, whose novel ''Submission'' is published that day. 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 ye ... [...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 twpreviouslyunknown 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 – Discovery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number) * Any of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, or 2013 Music Albums * ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013 * ''13'' (Blur album), 1999 * ''13'' (Borgeous album), 2016 * ''13'' (Brian Setzer album), 2006 * ''13'' (Die Ärzte album), 1998 * ''13'' (The Doors album), 1970 * ''13'' (Havoc album), 2013 * ''13'' (HLAH album), 1993 * ''13'' (Indochine album), 2017 * ''13'' (Marta Savić album), 2011 * ''13'' (Norman Westberg album), 2015 * ''13'' (Ozark Mountain Daredevils album), 1997 * ''13'' (Six Feet Under album), 2005 * ''13'' (Suicidal Tendencies album), 2013 * ''13'' (Solace album), 2003 * ''13'' (Second Coming album), 2003 * 13 (Timati album), 2013 * ''13'' (Ces Cru EP), 2012 * ''13'' (Denzel Curry EP), 2017 * ''Thirteen'' (CJ & The Satellites album), 2007 * ''Thirteen'' (Emmylou Harris album), 1986 * ''Thirteen'' (Harem Scarem album), 2014 * ''Thirteen'' (James Reyne album), 2012 * ''Thirteen'' (Megadeth album), 2011 * ... [...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 The Satanic Verses controversy, 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 (writer), Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2011 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011. Events June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'', which pins its narrative around a series of earlier vernacular photography, private photographs he had collected. It remains top of ''The New York Times'' Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels. July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little Literary Agency, Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair (agent), Neil Blair. September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March. November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey. New books Fiction Chris Adrian – ''The Great Night (novel), The Great Night'' David Almond – ''The True Tale ... [...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 Inc., Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding (author), Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel ''Tinkers (novel), Tinkers'' (2009 in literature, 2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal (literary award), 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 Amazon Kindle, Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, Dec ... [...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 Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post. May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 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– 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected 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. * June 25 – American pop singer Michael Jackson dies of an acute propofol intoxication at the age of 50. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	ReLit Awards The ReLit Awards are Canadian literary prizes awarded annually to book-length works in the novel, short-story and poetry categories."Three indie writers honoured by ReLit Awards". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 19, 2007. Founded in 2000 by Newfoundland filmmaker and author Kenneth J. Harvey. Subtitled'' Ideas, Not Money'' the main title of the awards is short for Regarding Literature, Reinventing Literature, and Relighting Literature."ReLit award winners named". ''Ottawa Citizen'', July 27, 2008. The awards were conceived by Harvey as an alternative to larger mainstream prizes such as the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Awards. There is no money awarded for the prize; in the first two years, the winners received a nominal prize of one Canadian dollar, but since 2003 the recipients have been presented with a silver ring designed by Newfoundland artisan Christopher Kearney, featuring four inlaid movable dials engraved with all of the letters of the alphabet. The award was known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2006 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2006. Events March – The first full-length original novel in the Manx language, ''Dunveryssyn yn Tooder-Folley'' ("The Vampire Murders"), is published by Brian Stowell, after being serialized in the press. April 7 – Justice Peter Smith concludes in a case of February 27 in the London High Court of Justice against the publisher Random House over the bestselling novel ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), that the author, Dan Brown, has not breached the copyright of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in their '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982, non-fiction). The judgment also contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. April 7– 9 – First Jaipur Literature Festival held in India. Summer – Brutalism becomes the first literary movement to be launched through the social networking site Myspace. June 14 – Ciaran Creagh's play ''Last Call'', based loosely on the hanging of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2017 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events March – Emulating Kerouac's '' On the Road'', Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as '' 1 the Road'' in 2018. August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. * August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. December – Kristen Roupenian's short story " Cat Person" is published in ''The New Yorker'' and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2016 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016. Events March 11 – Jean Martin's ''The Raped Little Runaway'' becomes the first book since 1998 to be banned in the Republic of Ireland by its Censorship of Publications Board (Ireland), Censorship of Publications Board, being deemed "indecent or obscene" on account of repeated reference to child rape. 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. Anniversaries January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	CBC Books CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', ''Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', ''Exhibitionists (TV series), Exhibitionists'', ''The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show (''The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries (''Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both wr ... [...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 7 – ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting: An attack on the leading Franch satirical weekly kills 12 and wounds 11. This week's cover features Michel Houellebecq, whose novel ''Submission'' is published that day. 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 ye ... [...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 twpreviouslyunknown 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 – Discovery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2013 In Literature Thirteen or 13 may refer to: * 13 (number) * Any of the years 13 BC, AD 13, 1913, or 2013 Music Albums * ''13'' (Black Sabbath album), 2013 * ''13'' (Blur album), 1999 * ''13'' (Borgeous album), 2016 * ''13'' (Brian Setzer album), 2006 * ''13'' (Die Ärzte album), 1998 * ''13'' (The Doors album), 1970 * ''13'' (Havoc album), 2013 * ''13'' (HLAH album), 1993 * ''13'' (Indochine album), 2017 * ''13'' (Marta Savić album), 2011 * ''13'' (Norman Westberg album), 2015 * ''13'' (Ozark Mountain Daredevils album), 1997 * ''13'' (Six Feet Under album), 2005 * ''13'' (Suicidal Tendencies album), 2013 * ''13'' (Solace album), 2003 * ''13'' (Second Coming album), 2003 * 13 (Timati album), 2013 * ''13'' (Ces Cru EP), 2012 * ''13'' (Denzel Curry EP), 2017 * ''Thirteen'' (CJ & The Satellites album), 2007 * ''Thirteen'' (Emmylou Harris album), 1986 * ''Thirteen'' (Harem Scarem album), 2014 * ''Thirteen'' (James Reyne album), 2012 * ''Thirteen'' (Megadeth album), 2011 * ... [...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 The Satanic Verses controversy, 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 (writer), Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2011 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011. Events June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'', which pins its narrative around a series of earlier vernacular photography, private photographs he had collected. It remains top of ''The New York Times'' Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels. July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little Literary Agency, Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair (agent), Neil Blair. September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March. November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey. New books Fiction Chris Adrian – ''The Great Night (novel), The Great Night'' David Almond – ''The True Tale ... [...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 Inc., Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding (author), Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel ''Tinkers (novel), Tinkers'' (2009 in literature, 2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal (literary award), 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 Amazon Kindle, Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, Dec ... [...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 Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post. May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 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– 25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected 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. * June 25 – American pop singer Michael Jackson dies of an acute propofol intoxication at the age of 50. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]