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Whiting Writers' Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g .... The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. , winners receive US$50,000. The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers cannot apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations. Recipients References External links {{Commons category, Whiting Award winnersCurrent Winners
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Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with fact, history, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, fiction refers to literature, written narratives in prose often specifically novels, novellas, and short story, short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any Media (communication), medium, including not just writings but also drama, live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition and theory Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly expressed, so the audience expects a work of fiction to deviate to a greater or lesser degree from the real world, rather than presenting for instance only factually accurate portrayals or character (arts ...
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1998 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998. Events * March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play ''Not About Nightingales'' receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin Redgrave, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre. * October ** The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring. ** Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the ''Kara no Kyōkai'' series, with five chapters released online. * November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel ''Charming Billy''. * December – ''The Strand Magazine#1998 revival, The Strand Magazine'' title is revived in the United States. New books Fiction * Turki al-Hamad – ''Adama'' (first volume in ''Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah'' (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) trilogy) * Tariq Ali � ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2008 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008. Events *January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." *February 29 – Belgian-born " Misha Defonseca" admits that her bestselling '' Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years'' (1997) is a literary forgery. *April – Signet Books announce they will cease to publish the American historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards after a dispute over plagiarism. * April 25 – The first Twitter novel, ''Small Places'' by Nicholas Belardes, is launched. *May 7– 11 – The first Palestine Festival of Literature is held. *June 15 – Gore Vidal, asked in a ''New York Times'' interview how he felt about the death of his rival William F. Buckley, Jr., replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in l ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2005 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005. Events *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'') * Avi – ''Never Mind'' *Tash Aw – '' The Harmony Silk Factory'' *Steve Aylett – ''Lint'' * Doreen Baingana – '' Tro ...
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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 française'', ...
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2003 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2003. Events *February 12 – An invitation from the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for some poets to attend a conference at the White House is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group for poetry readings across the United States on the same date. *February 15 – Anti-war protests occur in London. They are later used as the setting for Ian McEwan's 2005 novel ''Saturday''. *March – The University of Mosul library is damaged and looted during the Iraq War, but many volumes are removed for protection by staff. *April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down during the Battle of Baghdad. *April – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. *November 7 – UNESCO places among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity ''wayang kulit'', a shadow p ...
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2002 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2002. Events *March 16 – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail the poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth", which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for personal benefit. *March 31 – '' American Writers: A Journey Through History'' resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. *May – The results of a poll of 100 authors conducted in Norway are announced, leading to the Bokklubben World Library beginning publication. *October 16 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina (designed by Snøhetta) is inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt. *November – Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, based on the film '' Die Another Day'', bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels featuring ...
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