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Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes are an American literary award which offers unrestricted grants in four categories, namely fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Established at Yale University in 2011, the first prizes were presented in 2013. Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library () is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and ..., the award recognizes English language writers from across the world. The mission of the award is to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. In 2017 the category of poetry was added and eight prizes have been awarded annually since then. Since 2023, winners receive a citation, award and an unrestricted grant of $175,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library () is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and is one of the largest collections of such texts. Established by a gift of the Beinecke family and given its own financial endowment, the library is financially independent from the university and is co-governed by the University Library and Yale Corporation. Situated on Yale University's Hewitt Quadrangle, the building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1963. From 2015 to 2016 the library building was closed for 18 months for major renovations, which included replacing the building's HVAC system and expanding teaching and exhibition capabilities. Architecture The Beinecke Library is an International Style building. Its six-story above-ground glass-enclosed tower of book stacks is encased b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topdog/Underdog
''Topdog/Underdog'' is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City. The next year it opened on Broadway, at the Ambassador Theatre, where it played for several months. In 2002, Parks received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Outer Critics Circle Award for the play; it received other awards for the director and cast. In 2023, it won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Plot The play chronicles the adult lives of two African-American brothers as they cope with poverty, racism, work, women, and their troubled upbringings. Lincoln lives with Booth, his younger brother, after being thrown out by his wife. Booth reminds Lincoln that his presence was meant to be a temporary arrangement. But Lincoln, who works at an arcade as a whiteface Abraham Lincoln impersonator, is their only source of income. While the work is honest, both brothers find it humiliating. Booth repeatedly attempts to persuade Lincoln to return to ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month, previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. In 1932, the department was eliminated as an economic measure. However, within a year, Louise Raymond, the secretary Kirkus hired, had the department running again. Kirkus, however, had left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2025. Anniversaries * 14 January – Yukio Mishima was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 18 January – Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 20 January – Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 20 January – Eugen Gomringer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 1 February – Alfred Grosser was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 4 February – Russell Hoban was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 6 February – Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 22 February – Edward Gorey was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 24 February – Etel Adnan was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 10 March – Manolis Anagnostakis was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 12 March – Harry Harrison was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 21 March – Peter Brook was born in 1925 (100th Anniversary). * 25 March – Flannery O'Connor was bo ... [...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] |
2023 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2023. Events c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France. Anniversaries *100th anniversary of ''Time'' *100th anniversary of ''Weird Tales'' *100th anniversary of the publication of **''Bambi, a Life in the Woods'' by Felix Salten **''The Ego and the Id'' by Sigmund Freud ** "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek (last installment) **" The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft **" The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft **"Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft **" What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft **'' The Prophet'' by Kahlil Gibran **''New Hampshire'' by Robert Frost ***"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" **'' Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw **'' Sonnets to Orpheus'' by Rainer Maria Rilke **''Three Stories and Ten Poems'' by Ernest Hemingway **'' Toward an Architecture'' by Le Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022. Events *1 January ** The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE. ** A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' enters the public domain in the United States. *5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing. *11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States. * 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction. * 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature. *4 May – Ram Nath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, ''The Globe (Toronto newspaper), The Globe'' and ''The Daily Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and ''The Empire (Toronto), The Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021. Events *January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to literature. *September 7 – A Radio-Canada article reveals that 5,000 books from 30 French-language school libraries in Southwestern Ontario were destroyed by the Conseil scolaire catholique Providence because they included racial stereotypes relating to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Although intended as a "gesture of reconciliation", the action meets with widespread condemnation. *October 6 – The National Assembly of France adopts new legislation mandating a minimum price on book deliveries to protect independent bookstores from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Fnac Fnac () is a French multinational retail chain specializing in the sale of entertainment Media (communication), media and consumer ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020. Events * April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. * May 26– July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale '' The Ickabog'' in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. * June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in ''The Strand Magazine''. * July 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted (later shortlisted) author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests. * August – The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, purchases ''Das Große Stammbuch'', an ''album amicorum'' compiled by diplomat Philipp Hainhofer, which the library's patron Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, tried but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2019. Events *February 2 – The family of the U.S. fiction writer J. D. Salinger confirm in an interview published in the U.K. newspaper ''The Guardian'' that he left a large unpublished body of work on his death in 2010, which they are preparing for publication. *April 11–April 13, 13 – Trinity College Dublin holds a three-day symposium on ''Finnegans Wake'', marking the 80th anniversary its publication. *May 10 – Simon Armitage is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Carol Ann Duffy. *July 15 – Iris Murdoch's birthday centenary is marked in Ireland with a postage stamp based on a portrait of her. Dublin City Council unveils a plaque at Blessington Street Park, located temporarily due to renovations at her nearby birthplace, 59 Blessington Street. In the U.K., ''The Times Literary Supplement'' has her on its cover. *September 20 – Museum of Literature Ireland (MoL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
