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Merle Curti Award. Organization of American Historians. Best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. Since 1978. Millia Davenport Publication Award. Costume Society of America. recognizes and promotes excellence in the publication of costume, dress, appearance, and fashion related scholarship.
e. The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. [10] The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency. [11]
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry. American Book Awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.
"for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the Occupation" [115] novel, screenplay 2015: Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948) Belarus (born in Soviet Ukraine) Russian "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" [116] history, essay 2016: Bob ...
Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet ...
Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.