Matt Cohen (writer)

	Matt Cohen (writer) Matthew Cohen (30 December 1942 – 2 December 1999) was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam. History Matt Cohen was born in Montreal, son of Morris Cohen and Beatrice Sohn, and was raised in Kingston and Ottawa. He studied political economy at the University of Toronto and taught political philosophy and religion at McMaster University in the late 1960s before publishing his first novel ''Korsoniloff'' in 1969. His fiction was translated into German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. ''The Spanish Doctor'', his biggest international success, continues to sell well in the French and Spanish markets. His greatest critical success as a writer was his final novel ''Elizabeth and After'' which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for ''The Swee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Emotional Arithmetic ''Emotional Arithmetic'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow. It opened at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April 18, 2008. When released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the US, on July 22, 2008, the film's title differed from that of its theatrical release; the US DVD is called ''Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning''. Plot ''Emotional Arithmetic'' focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Sarandon (; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actorMcCabe, Bruce"Susan Sarandon, the 'actor'" ''Boston Globe''. April 17, 1981. Retrieved January 21, 2021. and activist. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Sarandon began her acting career in the drama film '' Joe'' (1970), before appearing in the soap opera '' A World Apart'' (1970–1971). In 1974, she co-starred as a Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the television film ''F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles','' and the following year, she starred as Janet Weiss in the musical comedy horror film ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. Sarandon was nominated for the Academy Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1993 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi. November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel ''The Shipping News''. ''unknown dates'' Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel ''Cranes' Morning'' appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994. Professor Stephen Hawking's ''A Brief History of Time'' becomes the longest-running book on ''The Sunday Times'' UK bestseller list. Reality television contest ''Million's Poet'' (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's ''Bajazet (play), Bajazet'' is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre. The Guodian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1991 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991. Events February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' at the Queen's Theatre, London. July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel ''The Satanic Verses'', is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book. October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in '' New Writing Scotland''. It is later incorporated into '' Trainspotting''. November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fourni ... [...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 Hackney, to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1987 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Events January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication. April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in '' Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field''. June – Virago Press of London publishes ''Down the Road, Worlds Away'', a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus turni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1984 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1984. Events * April 4 – The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' ( 1949) begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's '' The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' (1904) is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's '' 1Q84'' (いちきゅうはちよん, ''Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon'', 2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it. June 16 – Cirque du Soleil is founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. July – Tom Wolfe's novel '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' begins serialization in ''Rolling Stone''. December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is announced in succession to Sir John Betjeman, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. ''unknown dates'' Prvoslav Vujčić's second poetry collection, ''Kastriranje vetra'' (Castration of the Wind), wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1981 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1981. Events May 31 – The burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka is begun by a mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitaries. They destroy over 97,000 volumes in one of the worst examples of ethnic book burning in the modern era. August – Sefer ve Sefel opens as an English used bookstore in Jerusalem. ''unknown dates'' * John Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel series originated by Ian Fleming with '' Licence Renewed'' (not counting a faux biography of Bond and a pair of film novelizations, the first original Bond novel since 1968's ''Colonel Sun''). The revived Bond book series will run uninterrupted until 2002. Colin MacCabe is denied tenure at the University of Cambridge, apparently because of a dispute within the English Faculty about the teaching of structuralism. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is given for the first time. New books Fiction Kingsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1979 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1979. Events May – The Merchant Ivory Productions film ''The Europeans'' is released. Its screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala draws on the 1878 Henry James novel of the same name. October 25 – The ''London Review of Books'' is first issued, its founding editors being Karl Miller, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp. For its first six months it appears as an insert to ''The New York Review of Books''. November – Dambudzo Marechera's ''The House of Hunger'' wins the Guardian Fiction Prize. ''unknown dates'' K. W. Jeter's novel ''Morlock Night'' pioneers full-length fiction in the genre he later calls steampunk. August Wilson's '' Jitney'' is first produced; it becomes the eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle". New books Fiction Douglas Adams – ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' V. C. Andrews – ''Flowers in the Attic'' Jeffrey Archer – '' Kane and Abel'' Barbara Taylor Brad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1977 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977. Events February 20 – An episode of '' Doctor on the Go'', co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman, marks the beginning of Adams' career as a writer for BBC radio. March 4 – Andrés Caicedo commits suicide by overdose, aged 25, about a month after the publication of his novel '' ¡Que viva la música!'' ("Let Music Live!", translated as ''Liveforever'') is published in his hometown of Cali, Colombia. * April 27 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer born 1919), is kidnapped by the military authorities; he is believed to have died in detention a few months later. July 11 – The English magazine ''Gay News'' is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem, "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" by James Kirkup, in a case (''Whitehouse v Lemon'') at the Old Bailey in London, on behalf of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1975 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975. Events January 1 – English-born comic writer P. G. Wodehouse is awarded a knighthood, six weeks before he dies in the United States. January – Colin Dexter's detective novel ''Last Bus to Woodstock'' introduces his Oxford police officer, Inspector Morse. * April 23 Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin meet in person for the first time, at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, after years of correspondence. Harold Pinter's play '' No Man's Land'' is premièred by the National Theatre at The Old Vic in London, directed by Peter Hall and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. April 28 – Harold Pinter leaves his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, having begun an affair with the married biographer Lady Antonia Fraser on January 8. May 10 – Leftist Salvadoran poet, journalist and political activist Roque Dalton (born 1935) is assassinated by former colleagues in the People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1974 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974. Events February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper ''Marcha'' a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain. February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ''The Gulag Archipelago'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear. August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's ''Tales of the City'' is published as a serial in ''The Pacific Sun'' (Marin County, California). October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London. ''unknown dates'' The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Matt Cohen (writer) Matthew Cohen (30 December 1942 – 2 December 1999) was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam. History Matt Cohen was born in Montreal, son of Morris Cohen and Beatrice Sohn, and was raised in Kingston and Ottawa. He studied political economy at the University of Toronto and taught political philosophy and religion at McMaster University in the late 1960s before publishing his first novel ''Korsoniloff'' in 1969. His fiction was translated into German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. ''The Spanish Doctor'', his biggest international success, continues to sell well in the French and Spanish markets. His greatest critical success as a writer was his final novel ''Elizabeth and After'' which won the 1999 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction only a few weeks before his death. He had been nominated twice previously, but had not won, in 1979 for ''The Swee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Emotional Arithmetic ''Emotional Arithmetic'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow. It opened at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April 18, 2008. When released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the US, on July 22, 2008, the film's title differed from that of its theatrical release; the US DVD is called ''Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning''. Plot ''Emotional Arithmetic'' focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Susan Sarandon Susan Abigail Sarandon (; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actorMcCabe, Bruce"Susan Sarandon, the 'actor'" ''Boston Globe''. April 17, 1981. Retrieved January 21, 2021. and activist. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and nine Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. Sarandon began her acting career in the drama film '' Joe'' (1970), before appearing in the soap opera '' A World Apart'' (1970–1971). In 1974, she co-starred as a Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the television film ''F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles','' and the following year, she starred as Janet Weiss in the musical comedy horror film ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. Sarandon was nominated for the Academy Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1993 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi. November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel ''The Shipping News''. ''unknown dates'' Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel ''Cranes' Morning'' appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994. Professor Stephen Hawking's ''A Brief History of Time'' becomes the longest-running book on ''The Sunday Times'' UK bestseller list. Reality television contest ''Million's Poet'' (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's ''Bajazet (play), Bajazet'' is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre. The Guodian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1991 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991. Events February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' at the Queen's Theatre, London. July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel ''The Satanic Verses'', is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book. October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in '' New Writing Scotland''. It is later incorporated into '' Trainspotting''. November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fourni ... [...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 Hackney, to ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1987 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Events January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication. April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in '' Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field''. June – Virago Press of London publishes ''Down the Road, Worlds Away'', a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus turni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1984 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1984. Events * April 4 – The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' ( 1949) begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's '' The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' (1904) is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's '' 1Q84'' (いちきゅうはちよん, ''Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon'', 2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it. June 16 – Cirque du Soleil is founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. July – Tom Wolfe's novel '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' begins serialization in ''Rolling Stone''. December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is announced in succession to Sir John Betjeman, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. ''unknown dates'' Prvoslav Vujčić's second poetry collection, ''Kastriranje vetra'' (Castration of the Wind), wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1981 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1981. Events May 31 – The burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka is begun by a mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitaries. They destroy over 97,000 volumes in one of the worst examples of ethnic book burning in the modern era. August – Sefer ve Sefel opens as an English used bookstore in Jerusalem. ''unknown dates'' * John Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel series originated by Ian Fleming with '' Licence Renewed'' (not counting a faux biography of Bond and a pair of film novelizations, the first original Bond novel since 1968's ''Colonel Sun''). The revived Bond book series will run uninterrupted until 2002. Colin MacCabe is denied tenure at the University of Cambridge, apparently because of a dispute within the English Faculty about the teaching of structuralism. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is given for the first time. New books Fiction Kingsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1979 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1979. Events May – The Merchant Ivory Productions film ''The Europeans'' is released. Its screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala draws on the 1878 Henry James novel of the same name. October 25 – The ''London Review of Books'' is first issued, its founding editors being Karl Miller, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp. For its first six months it appears as an insert to ''The New York Review of Books''. November – Dambudzo Marechera's ''The House of Hunger'' wins the Guardian Fiction Prize. ''unknown dates'' K. W. Jeter's novel ''Morlock Night'' pioneers full-length fiction in the genre he later calls steampunk. August Wilson's '' Jitney'' is first produced; it becomes the eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle". New books Fiction Douglas Adams – ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' V. C. Andrews – ''Flowers in the Attic'' Jeffrey Archer – '' Kane and Abel'' Barbara Taylor Brad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1977 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977. Events February 20 – An episode of '' Doctor on the Go'', co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman, marks the beginning of Adams' career as a writer for BBC radio. March 4 – Andrés Caicedo commits suicide by overdose, aged 25, about a month after the publication of his novel '' ¡Que viva la música!'' ("Let Music Live!", translated as ''Liveforever'') is published in his hometown of Cali, Colombia. * April 27 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer born 1919), is kidnapped by the military authorities; he is believed to have died in detention a few months later. July 11 – The English magazine ''Gay News'' is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem, "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" by James Kirkup, in a case (''Whitehouse v Lemon'') at the Old Bailey in London, on behalf of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1975 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1975. Events January 1 – English-born comic writer P. G. Wodehouse is awarded a knighthood, six weeks before he dies in the United States. January – Colin Dexter's detective novel ''Last Bus to Woodstock'' introduces his Oxford police officer, Inspector Morse. * April 23 Barbara Pym and Philip Larkin meet in person for the first time, at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, after years of correspondence. Harold Pinter's play '' No Man's Land'' is premièred by the National Theatre at The Old Vic in London, directed by Peter Hall and starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. April 28 – Harold Pinter leaves his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, having begun an affair with the married biographer Lady Antonia Fraser on January 8. May 10 – Leftist Salvadoran poet, journalist and political activist Roque Dalton (born 1935) is assassinated by former colleagues in the People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1974 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974. Events February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publishing in the newspaper ''Marcha'' a short story implicitly critical of the military regime. He subsequently goes into exile in Spain. February 12 – After publication at the end of 1973 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ''The Gulag Archipelago'' (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ), the author is arrested for treason; the following day he is deported from the Soviet Union. In spring and summer the first translations into French and English begin to appear. August 8 – The first of Armistead Maupin's ''Tales of the City'' is published as a serial in ''The Pacific Sun'' (Marin County, California). October 21 – New Guildhall Library opens in the City of London. ''unknown dates'' The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]