Following publication of his novel In Another Life ( Lion's Head Press, 2009 ) he received the inaugural Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in English-Language Literary Arts ( New Brunswick ).

The novel has been turned into a major performance work combining music and film that premiered at the inaugural Manchester International Festival in England on 29 June 2007.

With his inaugural novel, Childhood ( 1998 ), Alexis secured his reputation as a burgeoning writer.

His novel Home Land was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005 and winner of the inaugural 2004 Believer Book Award.

In that same year, Lim won the inaugural Singapore Literature Prize for her third novel Fistful Of Colours ( 1992 ).

* October 11: Marvel 1602 wins the inaugural graphic novel Quill Award.

-- Thousands of bleacher-type seats are being erected along Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House for the big inaugural parade on Jan. 20.

In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural broadcast of the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH, broadcasting from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

He is probably best known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball.

The Panthers signed Dom Capers, previously the defensive coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, as their inaugural head coach.

In their inaugural season, he led the Panthers to a 7 – 9 record, setting a record for the most victories by an expansion team.

The inaugural class for the Bengals Hall of Fame, hosted on the Bengals official website, was announced in 2011.

In 2004, the Rockies acquired Vinny Castilla, who had been with the club for its inaugural 1993 season, once again, and he hit 35 homers.

In March 1987, the group were awarded ' Best New Talent ', along with ' Song of the Year ' and ' Best Video ' for " Don't Dream It's Over ", at the inaugural ARIA Music Awards.

In 2006 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of the Athena Award, given by the Congress for the New Urbanism ( CNU ).

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

The inaugural meeting for Task Group 7 was held during January 2009, where it was chartered to write standards for free-space optical communication using visible light.

On 1 November 1533 he devoted his inaugural address to the need for reform and renewal in the Catholic Church.

* 1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.

He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 — the first black player so honored.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

The team was quickly built through a number of trades engineered by its first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, including a trade for Lou Piniella, who won the Rookie of the Year during the Royals ' inaugural season.

club winning the Scandinavian Championships in their inaugural year, 2009, and are again in the running for 2011.

In 2006, he was appointed Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and in October 2007 he presented his inaugural professorial lecture, " Finding Security in Terrorism ’ s Shadow: The importance of the rule of law ".

In their inaugural season played at Target Field, the Twins finished the regular season with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses, clinching the AL Central Division title for the 6th time in 9 years under manager Ron Gardenhire.

In 1937 Cotten became an inaugural member of Welles's Mercury Theatre company, starring in Broadway productions of Julius Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and Danton's Death, and in radio dramas presented on The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse.

Alger, who flew the inaugural air mail flight from England to Australia for Imperial Airways ' Empires Air Routes, in February 1937.

In the 1930s he conducted at the Salzburg Festival ( 1934 – 1937 ) and at the inaugural concert in 1936 of the Palestine Orchestra ( later renamed the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ) in Tel Aviv, and later performed with them in Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Alexandria.

There was something both morally and politically suspect about worldly fortune at a time when, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his 1937 inaugural address, one-third of the nation was ' ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished.

The SFSO concert season was never longer than five months a year, which enabled him to continue working with the OSP, and allowed him to conduct the inaugural concert of the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 13 November 1937.

The inaugural match took place on 18 April 1937 when AIK played against Malmö FF, AIK won the match 4 – 0.

He won 31 PGA Tour titles in all and the inaugural Vardon Trophy in 1937 ; his 31 titles were a record for PGA Tour players born outside the U. S. until surpassed by Vijay Singh in 2008.

The sixth book in the series, Pigeon Post, won the inaugural Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association in June 1937, recognising the best 1936 children's book by a British subject.

The event began in 1937 with the inaugural tournament at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, MO.

In May 1937, Trans-Canada Air Lines was founded with its inaugural flight, a perilous transcontinental proving flight on 30 July 1937.

In 1937, the inaugural meeting of Island Councillors on Yorke Island resulted in the " Torres Strait Islander Act " ( 1939 ), giving Islanders more authority in their own affairs and established local governments on each island.

The team finished second in its inaugural year in the border city, then won the postseason series and the PCL pennant in 1937, led by the hitting of sophomore outfielder Ted Williams, who was first signed to a contract in 1936.

It was founded in 1937, and the inaugural event was played at Augusta National Golf Club.

Messrs P Gupta and Brandon were entrusted to draft the rules of the new federation to be placed for consideration at the inaugural meeting to be held at Shimla on the 23rd June 1937.

In 1937, the Tigers joined the Negro American League in its inaugural season.

In 1937, Hutchison won the inaugural PGA Seniors ' Championship at Augusta National Golf Club, and in 1947 he won that event for a second time.

The avenue and obelisk on their 1937 inaugural.