* 2009: Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, " for his relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy, effectively admonishing citizens to uphold their right to know.

Former presenters of Radio Ireland / Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis ( The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith ), Tom Dunne ( Pet Sounds ), Eamon Dunphy ( original presenter of The Last Word ), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan ( originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host ), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin ( weekend sports programs presenter ), Mark Kavanagh ( dance show ), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney ( briefly ), Marty Miller ( now rockin ' out on Radio Nova 100FM ) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey ( Murray and Mackey ), Ian Noctor ( newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock ) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan ( The Celtic Reel ), John Ryan ( original presenter of The Sunday Supplement ), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy ( Between The Sheets-love songs ), and Karl Tsigdinos ( The River of Soul ).

( Liberal MP Steve Mahoney referred to Day's comments as " treachery " towards Mark, for which he was ruled out of order by the Speaker.

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1946 – Mark Ritts, American actor ( d. 2009 )

* Giles Coren portrayed Mark Antony in the sixth episode of the second series of The Supersizers Eat ( aired BBC One, 9: 00 pm Monday July 27, 2009 )

" In addition, official letters from the FBI in support of a Whitacre pardon were published in Floyd Perry's September 2009 book, Mark Whitacre: Against All Odds.

A Discovery Channel TV documentary titled, Undercover: Operation Harvest King, which documents Mark Whitacre's role in the ADM price fixing case aired several times during 2009 and 2010, where Discovery Channel interviewed the three FBI agents who handled the Mark Whitacre / ADM case ( i. e., Dean Paisley, Brian Shepard and Robert Herndon ), along with Mark and Ginger Whitacre.

* Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto ( 2009 ) by Mark Levin

As of July 2009, Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown II, Metal Slug 3, Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The King of Fighters ' 98 have been released.

* Franklyn Turbak and David Gifford with Mark Sheldon: Design Concepts in Programming Languages, The MIT Press 2009.

Fredric Jameson, the major figure in the thinking on postmodernism and culture, calls postmodernism " the cultural dominant of the logic of late capitalism " ( Jameson 1991, 46 ), meaning that, through globalization, postmodern culture is tied inextricably with capitalism ( Mark Fisher, writing 20 years later, goes further, essentially calling it the sole cultural possibility ( Fisher 2009, 4 )).

* 1922 – Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist ( d. 2009 )

As of the 2009 release of The Proposal, Mark Kermode said she's made only three " good " films in her career — Speed, While You Were Sleeping, and Crash, and says " she's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten film after rotten film.

* Mark Herman, Mark Frost, Robert Kurz Wargaming for Leaders, McGraw-Hill 2009.

In February 2009, it was confirmed that Williams had written material with Guy Chambers and Mark Ronson.

Mark Hollingsworth & Stewart Lansley, Londongrad: From Russia With Cash, 2009, 4th Estate

The history of this writing manual is told in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White ’ s The Elements of Style ( 2009 ), by Mark Garvey.

* Mark Garvey, Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style ( New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 ).

Several bandmembers are currently active in UK music industry bodies – amongst them the FAC, whilst Mark Kelly was elected in November 2009 to both the Performer and Main Boards of the UK's PPL.

* Mark Andrew Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations ( Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2009 ) ( Early Judaism and Its Literature, 27 ).

Mark Benninghofer joined the cast as a substitute actor for a brief time after Russell broke his ankle in February 2009, forcing him to take medical leave for a full month.

In May 2009, Dick Mills reunited with former BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell with archivist Mark Ayres for a live concert at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, performing as " The Radiophonic Workshop ".

Australian soul singer / songwriters like Daniel Merriweather, has after several successful collaborations with artists such as Mark Ronson, released his official debut album, Love & War, in June 2009.

Until March 2009, GSN licensed the entire Mark Goodson-Bill Todman library.

The University is associated with ten leaders and Prime Ministers of the Netherlands including the current Prime Minister Mark Rutte, eight foreign leaders among them the 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams, two Secretary Generals of NATO and sixteen recipients of the Nobel Prize, including renowned twentieth century physicists Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi.

Mark Childress, novelist, and Cynthia Tucker, syndicated columnist and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, were also born in Monroeville.

Meanwhile, émigré writers, such as poets Vyacheslav Ivanov, Georgy Ivanov and Vladislav Khodasevich ; novelists such as Gaito Gazdanov, Mark Aldanov and Vladimir Nabokov and short story Nobel Prize winning writer Ivan Bunin, continued to write in exile.

In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that " Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman ".

In 1998, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts created the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded annually.

* Mark Wallinger in the 1995 Turner Prize, Tate web site

* Scorpion Prize, " Roadrunner " 2012, 12: 2 Judged by Mark Wallace

* Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Shumate, High Water Mark

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One

* Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems

* Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On

Merwin for his The Carrier of Ladders ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1971 ) and The Shadow of Sirius ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009 ); Mark Strand for Blizzard of One ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1999 ); Robert Hass for his Time and Materials, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and 2007 respectively ; and Rita Dove for her Thomas and Beulah ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1987 ).

In the summers of 1980 and 1982, Paul Bowles conducted Writing Workshops in Morocco, ( under the auspices of the School of Visual Arts in New York ) at the American School of Tangier which were both very successful, so much so that several of his former students including Rodrigo Rey Rosa who was the 2004 Winner of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature and who is also the literary heir of the estate of Paul Bowles and Mark Terrill went on to become successful authors.

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is America ’ s foremost award for humor, and has been awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts annually since 1998.

The first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to comedian Richard Pryor on October 20, 1998.

The first two years of The Mark Twain Prize ( Richard Pryor and Jonathan Winters ) were taped and broadcast on Comedy Central.

In 2007, the Mark Twain Prize celebrated its 10th anniversary and presented the prize to Billy Crystal.

* Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center website

* Mark Twain Prize from the PBS website