Kirsty Gunn

	Kirsty Gunn Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing. She has won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award, the New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Education and academic career Gunn studied at Victoria University and Oxford University. She has taught creative writing at Oxford University. She is currently a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Literary Fund, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Writing career Gunn's debut, the short novel "Rain", was published in 1994. In 2001, the novel was adapted as both a film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs, and as a ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music for Eighteen Musicians", a 1976 score by Steve Reich. Gunn's first collection of short stories, ''This Place You Return To Is Home'', was published in 1999 and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Scottish Arts Council The Scottish Arts Council (), was a Scottish public body responsible for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland. The Council primarily distributed funding from the Scottish Government as well as National Lottery funds received via the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Scottish Arts Council was formed in 1994 following a restructuring of the Arts Council of Great Britain, but had existed as an autonomous body since a royal charter of 1967. In 2010 it merged with Scottish Screen to form Creative Scotland. Activities The Council funded all the major areas of the arts, seeking to maintain balance between the many diverse communities of Scotland. In addition, it funded cultural groups and events affiliated with immigrant communities and minorities in Scotland. It sponsored two book awards: * The Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award (worth £5,000); and * The Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award (worth £10,000). ... [...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]
picture info	1960 Births It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ... [...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]
	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]
	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, UK. * 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 Europea ... [...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]
	2024 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024. Anniversaries 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary). 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book '' New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes''. 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 5 August – Harold Gray's ''Little Orphan Annie'' comic strip was first published in the New York '' Daily News'' (100th Anniversary). 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). * 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary). 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (100th Anniversary). 100th anniversary of the publication of ''A Passage to India'' by E. M. Forster ''The Magic Mountain'' by Thomas Mann '' The King of Elfl ... [...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]
	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]
	2018 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2018. Events July – Stormzy's publisher imprint Merky Books is launched in London. August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, has Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" read to him by the newspaper editor Geordie Greig. September 16 – Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral closet drama ''Love's Victory'' receives its first fully professional, publicly staged (filmed) performance, at Penshurst Place in England, where it was probably written about 1618. It is the first known original pastoral drama and thought to be the first original dramatic comedy to be written by a woman. October 19 – The exhibition ''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War'', opening at the British Library, includes the earliest surviving will of an Englishwoman. Written on "a small, stained sheet of parchment", the detailed testament of Wynflaed, Wynflæd is thought to date from the mid- to late 10th century. October 26 ... [...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]

	Kirsty Gunn Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing. She has won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award, the New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Education and academic career Gunn studied at Victoria University and Oxford University. She has taught creative writing at Oxford University. She is currently a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Literary Fund, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Writing career Gunn's debut, the short novel "Rain", was published in 1994. In 2001, the novel was adapted as both a film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs, and as a ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music for Eighteen Musicians", a 1976 score by Steve Reich. Gunn's first collection of short stories, ''This Place You Return To Is Home'', was published in 1999 and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Scottish Arts Council The Scottish Arts Council (), was a Scottish public body responsible for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland. The Council primarily distributed funding from the Scottish Government as well as National Lottery funds received via the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The Scottish Arts Council was formed in 1994 following a restructuring of the Arts Council of Great Britain, but had existed as an autonomous body since a royal charter of 1967. In 2010 it merged with Scottish Screen to form Creative Scotland. Activities The Council funded all the major areas of the arts, seeking to maintain balance between the many diverse communities of Scotland. In addition, it funded cultural groups and events affiliated with immigrant communities and minorities in Scotland. It sponsored two book awards: * The Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award (worth £5,000); and * The Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award (worth £10,000). ... [...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]
picture info	1960 Births It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine ... [...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]
	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]
	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, UK. * 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 Europea ... [...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]
	2024 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024. Anniversaries 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary). 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book '' New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes''. 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 5 August – Harold Gray's ''Little Orphan Annie'' comic strip was first published in the New York '' Daily News'' (100th Anniversary). 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). * 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary). 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (100th Anniversary). 100th anniversary of the publication of ''A Passage to India'' by E. M. Forster ''The Magic Mountain'' by Thomas Mann '' The King of Elfl ... [...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]
	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]
	2018 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2018. Events July – Stormzy's publisher imprint Merky Books is launched in London. August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, has Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" read to him by the newspaper editor Geordie Greig. September 16 – Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral closet drama ''Love's Victory'' receives its first fully professional, publicly staged (filmed) performance, at Penshurst Place in England, where it was probably written about 1618. It is the first known original pastoral drama and thought to be the first original dramatic comedy to be written by a woman. October 19 – The exhibition ''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War'', opening at the British Library, includes the earliest surviving will of an Englishwoman. Written on "a small, stained sheet of parchment", the detailed testament of Wynflaed, Wynflæd is thought to date from the mid- to late 10th century. October 26 ... [...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]