Dame Annabelle Rankin Award

	Dame Annabelle Rankin Award The Dame Annabelle Rankin Award is a biennial award presented by the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia. In 1977, Dame Annabelle Rankin was one of the first people to be made a Life Member of the Queensland Branch of Children’s Book Council of Australia. Winners See also * List of CBCA Awards * List of Australian literary awards A list of Australian literary awards and prizes: Literature * ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009) * ACT Book of the Year * ACT Writing and Publishing Awards * Ada Cambridge Prize The Age Book of the Year – discontinued after 2012; reinstitut ... References External links Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Children's Book Council of Australia Australian children's literary awards {{lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Annabelle Rankin Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE (28 July 190830 August 1986) was an Australian politician and diplomat. She was the first woman from Queensland elected to parliament, the first woman federal departmental minister, and the first Australian woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission. Rankin was born in Brisbane, the daughter of state MP Colin Rankin. A member of the Liberal Party, she was elected to the Senate at the 1946 federal election, taking her seat the following year. She was the second woman elected to the Senate, after Dorothy Tangney. Rankin was the Liberal Party's chief whip from 1947 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1966; she remains the longest-serving whip in the party's history, in either chamber of parliament. In 1966, she was made Minister for Housing in the Holt Government, becoming the first woman to hold a ministerial portfolio. She held that position until her retirement from politics in 1971. As High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1971 to 1974, she w ... [...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 français ... [...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-Riyadh'') * ... [...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 the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2007 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2007. Events January 1 – '' Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'' (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (begun in 1645 as ''Ordinari Post Tijdender''), starts publishing online only. March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the city's historic center of bookselling. April 1 – The first in the ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series by Jeff Kinney is released in book form in New York. April 26 – Polly Stenham's play ''That Face'', written when she was 19, opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London. * July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', sells over 11 million copies in its first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history. November 2 – The Tomi Ungerer Museum opens in Strasbourg. November 19 – The first Kindle e-book reader is released. December 5 – The first European Book Prize ... [...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. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting of the Standardization Committee of the Silesian Language. October 8 – Romani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Dame Annabelle Rankin Award The Dame Annabelle Rankin Award is a biennial award presented by the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia. In 1977, Dame Annabelle Rankin was one of the first people to be made a Life Member of the Queensland Branch of Children’s Book Council of Australia. Winners See also * List of CBCA Awards * List of Australian literary awards A list of Australian literary awards and prizes: Literature * ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009) * ACT Book of the Year * ACT Writing and Publishing Awards * Ada Cambridge Prize The Age Book of the Year – discontinued after 2012; reinstitut ... References External links Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Children's Book Council of Australia Australian children's literary awards {{lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Annabelle Rankin Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE (28 July 190830 August 1986) was an Australian politician and diplomat. She was the first woman from Queensland elected to parliament, the first woman federal departmental minister, and the first Australian woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission. Rankin was born in Brisbane, the daughter of state MP Colin Rankin. A member of the Liberal Party, she was elected to the Senate at the 1946 federal election, taking her seat the following year. She was the second woman elected to the Senate, after Dorothy Tangney. Rankin was the Liberal Party's chief whip from 1947 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1966; she remains the longest-serving whip in the party's history, in either chamber of parliament. In 1966, she was made Minister for Housing in the Holt Government, becoming the first woman to hold a ministerial portfolio. She held that position until her retirement from politics in 1971. As High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1971 to 1974, she w ... [...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 français ... [...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-Riyadh'') * ... [...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 the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2007 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2007. Events January 1 – '' Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'' (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (begun in 1645 as ''Ordinari Post Tijdender''), starts publishing online only. March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the city's historic center of bookselling. April 1 – The first in the ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' series by Jeff Kinney is released in book form in New York. April 26 – Polly Stenham's play ''That Face'', written when she was 19, opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London. * July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'', sells over 11 million copies in its first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history. November 2 – The Tomi Ungerer Museum opens in Strasbourg. November 19 – The first Kindle e-book reader is released. December 5 – The first European Book Prize ... [...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. August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting of the Standardization Committee of the Silesian Language. October 8 – Romani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]