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Events with high posterior probability

Eamon Grennan	He received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 1998.
Harriett Gilbert	She was a judge of the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Jack Matthews (author)	His 1972 novel The Charisma Campaigns was nominated by Walker Percy for the National Book Award.
Jennifer Mills	She was the winner of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the 2008-9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards : Best Short Story.
Colum McCann	A Pushcart Prize, Rooney Prize, Irish Novel of the Year Award and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award have also come his way.
Olivia Manning	The Danger Tree was a considerable critical success, and though Manning was disappointed yet again that her novel was not shortlisted for the Booker prize, the Yorkshire Post selected it as their Best Novel of 1977.
Robert Aickman	In 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story'' Pages from a Young Girl's Journal''.
Ernestine Anderson	Anderson was one of 75 women chosen for the book, I Dream a World : Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1999), by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker.
Mahfuz Anam	Her first book A Golden Age won the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Alistair MacLeod	His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.
Joseph Wambaugh	In 2003, Fire Lover : A True Story, brought Wambaugh his second Edgar Award, for Best Crime Fact book.
Philip Pullman	The first book of His Dark Materials (Northern Lights) won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding English-language children's book.
David Gessner	In April 2007, Gessner won the John Burroughs award for Best Natural History Essay of the year.
Geoffrey A. Landis	Landis first science fiction story, Elemental, appeared in Analog in December 1984, and received a nomination for a Hugo award as well as earning him a nomination for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer.
Darin Strauss	His ALA Alex Award - winning, best-selling 2000 first novel Chang and Eng - a runner-up for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Literary Lions Award, a Borders Award winner, and a nominee for the PEN Hemingway award, among others -- is based on the lives of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng.
Ellen Kushner	Kushner's second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 1991.
Jeff Carlson (author)	After the release of Plague Year, Carlson was shortlisted for the 2007 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, an award voted on by the fandom of science fiction.
Wang Ping (author)	Wang is a judge for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Vasyl Shkliar	Shkliar was awarded the prize for the best Ukrainian Language Fantasy for `` Klyuch'' -LSB- 5 -RSB- 2011 - The National Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko Premier, for the novel ``'' Zalyshenets.
Yusef Komunyakaa	National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012 ; his book The Chameleon Couch was nominated for the poetry award.
Ian Brown (journalist)	In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon : A Father's Search for His Disabled Son.
Youssef Rzouga	:2003 : Aboulkacem Chebbi Prize for his poetic book : `` Flowers of Dioxyde of History'' :2003 : The Pen of the Poet Youssef Rzouga (A yearly Poetic Prize started in july 2003 in Sidi Alouan).
Jeffrey Angles	His book of translations, Killing Kanoko : Selected Poems of Hiromi Itō, published in 2009 by Action Books, was a finalist in the poetry category of the Best Translated Book Award offered by Three Percent.
Yiyun Li	Her debut novel The Vagrants was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Justin Haythe	His debut novel, The Honeymoon, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
Ena No?l	Ena's crowning moment in IBBY and in promoting Australian children's literature internationally was no doubt her achievement in 1986 of successfully nominating Patricia Wrightson for the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Medal for the body of her writing for children, and Robert Ingpen the IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his illustrations of children's books.
Santhini Govindan	In 1986, she entered story that she made up and told her infant son in the National Competition for Writers of Children's books, organized by the Children's Book Trust, New Delhi.
Mary Morris (writer)	Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled Vanishing Animals & Other Stories, in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Alf Engers	Engers was added to the Golden Book of Cycling, established by the magazine Cycling, on 23 November 1991.
Omar Tyree	In 2001, Tyree won the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature for the novel For the Love of Money.
Robert Ingpen	In 2007 Ingpen illustrated a picture book by Liz Lofthouse called Ziba Came on a Boat, which was nominated for many Australian awards including the Australian Children's Book Council Awards and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.
Alasdair Gray	His novel Poor Things (1992) won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
John Banville	His novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award in 1989.
Joel Zoss	Zoss has won several awards for his prose and is an International PEN short story award winner and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow of Creative Writing (awarded on the basis of his novel Chronicle, published by Simon & Schuster in 1980).
Katherine Paterson	In January 2013, Paterson received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association, which recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made'' a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children''.
Paula White	In March 2013 the godson of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks presented Paula White with the' Rosa Parks Lifetime Achievement Award', a prestigious award previously awarded to Queen Latifah, Dick Gregory, Marla Gibbs, and Johnnie Cochran.
Kim Haki	Kim's short story collection Complete Union won the first Im Sygyeong Unification Literary Award and in 1992 he received the 10th Shing Dong-yeop Creative Fund for Writers Prize.
Nan Ryan	Ryan was nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award in 2003 for Best Western Romance for her novel Naughty Marietta.
Nay Myo Thant	He won third prize for 2006 Collected short stories in the Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary award.
David Malouf	In 2007, his short-story collection Every Move You Make won The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction and the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award.
Charles Ardai	Ardai previously received a Shamus nomination for the short story Nobody Wins and he received the Edgar Award in 2007 for the short story The Home Front.
Keir Graff	Graff was named a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize in 2011, for his book The Price of Liberty.
Stephen Skowronek	The first edition of Skowronek's book The Politics Presidents Make (1993) won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) : the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in politics and history and the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for best book on the American presidency.
Liz Williams	Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.
Adrien Stoutenburg	Her second collection, A Short History of the Fur Trade, won a California Book Award (silver) for 1969, and was a close competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.
Jeremiah Tower	Tower's first book, New American Classics, won a James Beard Foundation Award in 1986 for'' Best American Regional Cookbook.''
Jonathan Bate	His biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), as well as being short listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize and the South Bank Show Award.
Michael King	King was winner of the 2003 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction.
Alissa York	York is best known for her 2007 Random House Canada novel Effigy, which was nominated in 2007 for one of Canada's most important prizes for literature and fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Kate Daniels	She was recently named the winner of the 2011 Hanes Award for Poetry by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for her work to date.
Mary Gordon (writer)	In 1993, Gordon received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Michael Redgrave	His final work, in 1975, a narrative of the epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster and visualised by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival prizes of which five were first place in category.
Michelle Izmaylov	Her third novel, Galaxy Watch, was awarded the 2011 Forward National Literature Award (Second Place, General Fiction).
Pamela Freeman	She is best known in Australia for the junior novel Victor's Quest and an associated series, the Floramonde books, and for The Black Dress : Mary MacKillop's Early Years, which won the NSW Premier's History Prize in 2006.
Stuart Ross	In 2012, he co-won the Elaine Mona Adilman Award for English Fiction & Poetry on a Jewish Theme, awarded by the J. I. Segal Committee of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, for his novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew.
Allen Mandelbaum	Mandelbaum received the 1973 National Book Award in category Translation for Virgil's Aeneid.
Naomi Novik	His Majesty's Dragon won the Compton Crook Award in 2007, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Jonathan Lethem	In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award - winning novel that achieved mainstream success.
Myrna Kostash	In 2001, her book, The Next Canada : In Search of the Future Nation, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Jorie Graham	Her collection of poetry P L A C E won the 2012 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, becoming the first American woman ever to win one of the UK's most prestigious poetry accolades.
Rhodri Glyn Thomas	There was controversy at the Academi 2008 Wales Book of the Year ceremony when Thomas incorrectly announced that Tom Bullough was the winner.
Khin Hnin Yu	Her famous works include : thumb | right | 180px | Book cover of Khin Hnin Yu's'' Mya Kyar Phyu'' (1995) features the struggle of a woman neglected by her husband, which earned the author her second Myanmar National Literature Award | National Literature Award Most of her novels are adapted into the famous films.
Robert Olen Butler	Butler also judged the annual Robert Olen Butler Prize, a short-fiction award founded and sponsored by Del Sol Press, with the most recent prize being awarded in 2010.
Beverley East	East was awarded the Flori Roberts -- Ladies First Trailblazer award in 2002, for being the first woman of color to be qualified to and practice graphology and QDE.
Hanif Kureishi	In May 2011, he was awarded the second Asia House Literature Award on the closing night of the Asia House Literary Festival where he discussed his Collected Essays (Faber).
Michael Broggie	His 430-page book, Walt Disney's Railroad Story, was awarded in 1998 with the Benjamin Franklin Gold Metal for Best Biography from the Publishers Marketing Association (PMA).
Alex Miller (writer)	He won the overall award for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for The Ancestor Game in 1993.
Paul Loeb	Loeb's first book Paul Loeb's Complete Book Of Dog Training (Prentice Hall), was selected as the best book of 1974 by the Dog Writer's Association of America as mentioned in.
Kate Daniels	In 2003, she served as a judge for the National Book Award in Poetry.
Simon Prebble	As one of AudioFile Magazine's' Golden Voices' and' Best Voices of the Century', his work has gained him five' Listen Up' awards, thirty-two' Earphone' awards, and in 2005, he was named' Narrator of theYear' by Publishers Weekly.
Barbara Amiel	By Persons Unknown : The Strange Death of Christine Demeter (1978), which she co-authored with her third husband, won The Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book.
Mansoura Ez-Eldin	Her second novel, Beyond Paradise, was shortlisted for the prestigious Arabic Booker, to be awarded in March 2010.
Leon Rosselson	His first book, Rosa's Singing Grandfather, published by Puffin, was shortlisted in 1991 for the Carnegie Medal.
Cornelius Eady	Cornelius Eady's most recent collection of poetry, Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry.
Kelli Stanley	Nox Dormienda won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award Nox Dormienda was a Writer's Digest Notable Debut (July/August, 2008), and Stanley was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the City and County of San Francisco for her creation of the'' Roman noir''.
Frank Southall	After winning his first BBAR Southall's achievements were celebrated in 1932 when Cycling Weekly awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.
Davide Monteleone	In 2012 he published a book called Red Thistle winner among other prize of The Aftermath Grant, Burn Emergency Photographer Award, and European Publisher Award.
Vibhut Shah	He also won the Best Book of The Year second prize for this book from Gujarat Government in 1969.
Douglas Century	Century's second book, describing Operation Wasteland, was Takedown : The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire (coauthored with NYPD Detective First-Grade Rick Cowan) was a New York Times best-seller, a finalist for the 2003 Edgar Award ('' Best Fact Crime''), and a finalist for the 2003 Audie Awards ('' Best Audiobook of the Year, Non-Fiction, Abridged'', as read by actor Christopher Meloni).
Eddy J. Changkye	In 1990, he was awarded a Jasmin d’argent (Palmares Francophone) by the notable literary society for his poem Clapotis d’eau.
Lee Lynch (author)	In 2012, the Golden Crown Literary Society issued a new award for classic fiction and named it The Lee Lynch Classics Award.
Seymour Hersh	His 1983 book The Price of Power : Kissinger in the Nixon White House won him the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times book prize in biography.
Jamie McKendrick	McKendrick was named as one of the Poetry Society's' New Generation' poets in the 1990s, with the Society selecting his 1997 collection Marble Fly as a Poetry Society Book Choice.
Peter Bakowski	In 2010 he was shortlisted for the same award, for his book Beneath Our Armour.
Brenda Jackson	Additional she was a'' NAACP Image Award Nominee'' 2012 for Outstanding Literary Fiction for her novel, A Silken Thread.
Tjalie Robinson	Tjalie Robinson's book' Tjies' was awarded a literary prize by the municipality of Amsterdam in 1958.
Jim Turner (editor)	Turner won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for his work with Golden Gryphon Press.
Robin Robertson	In 2013, his book Hill of Doors was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Book Awards (Poetry).
Marilyn Hacker	She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.
Sa. Kandasamy	A first generation learner in his family, Kandasamy's literary career took off in 1968 with the publication of his novel Chayavanam listed by the National Book Trust as a masterpiece in modern Indian Literature.
Peter Balakian	Balakian's memoir Black Dog of Fate (1997) was winner of the PEN / Albrand Prize for memoir and a'' New York Times'' Notable Book.
Virginia Hamilton	For lifetime achievement Hamilton won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992 Her family encouraged her to read and write widely.
John Derbyshire	His 2004 non-fiction book, Prime Obsession, won the Mathematical Association of America's inaugural Euler Book Prize.
Gary Alan Fine	In 1988, he received the American Folklore Society's Opie Award for the Best Scholarly Book in the field of Children's Folklore and Culture for his work With The Boys, an ethnographic study of Little League baseball teams.
Brian Cleeve	In 1966, his story Foxer was honoured with a scroll at the annual Edgar Award s. During the 1960s and 70s, Cleeve returned to writing novels with considerable success.
Allen Sapp	In 2003, he received the Governor General's Award for English language children's illustration for the book, The Song Within My Heart.
Reg Livermore	The recipient of many awards for his considerable achievements Reg's long awaited autobiography, Chapters and Chances, a coffee table style photographic history, was published in 2003 through Hardie Grant books.
Stefan Gates	His first book was Gastronaut : Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave, winner of the 2005 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Best Food Literature Book.
Sadiq Khan	He is also Chair of the Fabian Society, and in 2009 won the prestigious Jenny Jeger award for best Fabian pamphlet, for his publication' Fairness not Favours : How to re-connect with British Muslims'.
Walter Greaves (cyclist)	Walter Greaves' achievements were celebrated in 1937 when Cycling Weekly awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.