Literature
- 22 June – Peter Temple wins the Miles Franklin Award for his crime novel Truth.
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)