United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights - United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by a General Assembly resolution in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organisations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments". They were first awarded in 1968, and they have been given out at five-year intervals since then. The award ceremony traditionally takes place on 10 December, which the UN has designated Human Rights Day. The recipients are selected by a special committee comprising the presidents of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and the chairs of.
1871 in literature - 1871 in literature See also: 1870 in literature, other events of 1871, 1872 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books The Adventures of Harry Richmond - George Meredith The Coming Race - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin Erewhon - Samuel Butler Eye Openers - Mark Twain Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon La Fortune des Rougon - Emile Zola A Leaf on Vrony's Grave - Johanna Spyri Little Men - Louisa May Alcott Middlemarch - George Eliot Screamers - Mark Twain Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Watch and Ward - Henry James Births March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist.
1866 in literature - 1866 in literature See also: 1865 in literature, other events of 1866, 1867 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books L'Affaire Clemenceau - Alexandre Dumas, fils Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald Armadale - Wilkie Collins Chandos - Ouida Cradock Nowell - Richard Doddridge Blackmore Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky Hereward the Wake - Charles Kingsley Kapalkundala - Bankim Chatterjee The Lerouge Affair - Emile Gaboriau Miss Ravenel's Conversion - John William De Forest The Negro in the American Rebellion - William Wells Brown Surry of Eagle's-Nest - John Esten Cooke The Toilers of.
1859 in literature - 1859 in literature See also: 1858 in literature, other events of 1859, 1860 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events The book, Adam Bede by George Eliot, was accused of being the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" in Britain and was consequently withdrawn from libraries. New Books Adam Bede - George Eliot Les Amants - Hector Malot Dora Deane - Mary Jane Holmes The Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson The Last Athenian - Viktor Rydverg Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith Rocambole - Pierre Ponson The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (poetry) -.
1833 in literature - 1833 in literature See also: 1832 in literature, other events of 1833, 1834 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events January - Honore Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature. New Books Alroy - Benjamin Disraeli The Country Doctor - Honore de Balzac Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac Gamiani - Alfred de Musset Godolphin - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb Lelia - George Sand Sartor Resartus - Thomas Carlyle Tom Cringle's Log - Michael Scott Births October 21 - Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize.
1830 in literature - 1830 in literature See also: 1829 in literature, other events of 1830, 1831 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books The Admiral and His Protégé - Rosalia St. Clair Auchindrane - Sir Walter Scott The Barony - Anna Maria Porter Boris Godunov - Alexander Pushkin (written in 1825) The Corsair's Bride - Louisa Stanhope Crotchet Castle - Thomas Love Peacock The Doom of Devorgoil - Sir Walter Scott The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck - Mary Shelley The King's Own - Frederick Marryat A Mariner's Sketches - Nathaniel Ames Poems Chiefly Lyrical - Alfred Tennyson The Red and the Black - Stendhal A Tale of Our Times - Catharine Maria.
1829 in literature - 1829 in literature See also: 1828 in literature, other events of 1829, 1830 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the blind to read. New Books Anne of Geierstein - Sir Walter Scott The Chouans - Honore de Balzac A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada - Washington Irving Devereux - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Fate and Fortune - Henrietta Rouviere Mosse A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager - Hans Christian Andersen The Misfortunes of Elphin - Thomas Love Peacock The Naval Officer - Frederick Marryat On the Constitution of Church and State - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Romances.
1916 in literature - 1916 in literature See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Joyce to be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones - John Edward Bruce The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story - George A. Moore.
1915 in literature - 1915 in literature See also: 1914 in literature, other events of 1915, 1916 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Around Old Chester - Margaret Deland.
1914 in literature - 1914 in literature See also: 1913 in literature, other events of 1914, 1915 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events George A. Moore publishes the final of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (first in 1911). November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published. New Books Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock Chicago - Carl Sandburg Concerning a vow - Rhoda Broughton Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward Dubliners - James Joyce Mending Wall - Robert Frost Notes of a Son and Brother - Henry James Our Mr. Wrenn - Sinclair Lewis The Revolt of the Angels - Anatole France Ruggles of Red Gap.
1913 in literature - 1913 in literature See also: 1912 in literature, other events of 1913, 1914 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Egyptian writer Muhammad Hussein Haykal publishes the first Arabic novel titled Zaynab. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Lawrence to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Alcools - Guillaume Apollinaire A Boy's Will - Robert Frost A City of Contrasts - Katherine James Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer - Oscar Micheaux The Coryston Family.
1912 in literature - 1912 in literature See also: 1911 in literature, other events of 1912, 1913 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson Adnams Orchard - Sarah Grand Alexander's Bridge - Willa Cather Bells and Hobbles (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Between two stools - Rhoda Broughton The Crock of Gold - James Stephens Death in Venice - Thomas Mann The Financier - Theodore Dreiser The King's Caravan (poetry) - Edwin James Brady Mrs. Spring - Sui-Sin Far A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell The Promised - Land Mary Antin The Reef -.
1911 in literature - 1911 in literature See also: 1910 in literature, other events of 1911, 1912 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Encyclopædia Britannica published. George A. Moore publishes the first of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (last in 1914). Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. Gallimard publishing house founded in Paris, France by Gaston Gallimard New Books The Bracknels - Forrest Reid The Card - Arnold Bennett The Case of Richard Meynell - Mary Augusta Ward The Downfall of the Gods - Hugh.
1910 in literature - 1910 in literature See also: 1909 in literature, other events of 1910, 1911 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books Canadian Born - Mary Augusta Ward The Devil and the Deep Sea - Rhoda Broughton The Emerald City of Oz - L. Frank Baum Heritage of the Desert - Zane Grey Howards End - E. M. Forster La Vagabonde - Colette Pelle the Conqueror (final volume) - Martin Andersen Nexø The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux The Return - Walter de la Mare Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams The Village - Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin What's Wrong With The World - G. K. Chesterton The.
1917 in literature - 1917 in literature See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events December 25 - Why Marry, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City. New Books Canada at Flanders - Max Aitken A Daughter of the Morning - Zona Gale Ethiopia, The Land of Promise - Clayton Adams His Family - Ernest Poole The Homesteader - Oscar Micheaux The Job - Sinclair Lewis Knights of Araby - Marmaduke Pickthall The Leopard's Claw - George Washington Ellis The Man With Two Left Feet - P. G. Wodehouse Missing - Mary Augusta Ward Of Human.
1919 in literature - 1919 in literature See also: 1918 in literature, other events of 1919, 1920 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is published. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The American Language - H. L. Mencken Caesar or Nothing - Pio Baroja Demian - Hermann Hesse Fields of Victory - Mary Augusta Ward The Forerunners - Romain Rolland Helena - Mary Augusta Ward The House of the Winds (poetry) - Edwin James Brady In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Java Head -.
1920 in literature - 1920 in literature See also: 1919 in literature, other events of 1920, 1921 in literature, List of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, opens at a special matinee at the Morosco Theater on February 2 – partly as an experiment on the part of the producer, partly to quiet the pleading of actor Richard Bennett who has demanded a chance to play the lead role. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill becomes famous. The Emperor Jones is staged in November. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published. It is a sensation, immediately establishing Fitzgerald as a writer and celebrity. Though the book's reputation.
1901 in literature - 1901 in literature See also: 1900 in literature, other events of 1901, 1902 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events First Nobel Prize for Literature awarded. October 23 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University. October - Mark Twain moves to Riverdale, New York The Three Sisters drama by Anton Chekov Gilbert Keith Chesterton marries Frances Blogg. Kim by Rudyard Kipling is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Aerial Village - Jules Verne La Becquée - René Boylesve Bubu.
1902 in literature - 1902 in literature See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York. June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from Missouri University. June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's Paradox. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is published. In 2001, the book would be one of four books by Conrad to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern.
1903 in literature - 1903 in literature See also: 1902 in literature, other events of 1903, 1904 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence, Italy. The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau. The Ambassadors by Henry James is serialized in twelve installments, from January to December. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by James to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Ambassadors - Henry James Enfant à la Balustrade - René Boylesve Force ennemie -.
