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1872 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 872nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1872, the ...
Split awards returned with a 1980 reorganization on Academy Awards lines (under the ambiguous name "American Book Awards" for a few years). From 1980 to 1983 there were not only split awards but more than twenty award categories annually; there were graphics awards (or "non-literary awards") and dual awards for hardcover and paperback books ...
February 6 – Sir Thomas Phillipps, English book collector (born 1792) March 4 – Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (born 1790) March 10 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian philosopher, journalist and politician (born 1805) March 11 – Emily Taylor, English author, poet and hymn writer (born 1795) April 1 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ...
Compton Crook Award – best first-time novel in genre in a year, since 1983 Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland) – since 1984 Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985
The Times has been printing on every leap year since 1871. Take a look at how the newspaper covered this not-so-normal day. Leaping into the news of Leap Days past, we look back on historic headlines
At the National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner held in New York City each November, the chair of each judging panel announces the winners of the year's National Book Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, a medal, and a citation written by the judging panel; winners get $10,000 and a bronze sculpture. [13]
See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes.
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