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January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." February 29 – Belgian-born " Misha Defonseca " admits that her bestselling Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997) is a literary forgery .
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems.
The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language.
Each grade is further sub-divided into 'bands'. The A grade comprises bands 1 and 2, the B grade has bands 3 and 4, and so on. These bands are not shown on certificates issued by the SQA and do not need to be stated on CVs. The National 4 Grading is equivalent to Standard Grade General, while national 5 Grading is equivalent to Standard Grade ...
SQA is accredited by the UK government to offer educational qualifications. [3] On 21 June 2021, it was announced that the SQA would be replaced following a review by the OECD. [4] Despite such announcements, the SQA continues to function for the academic year 2024-25 before being replaced sometime in autumn 2025 in time for the next exam year.
Exam regulators have been restoring pre-pandemic grading after Covid-19 led to a surge in top GCSE and A-level grades in 2020 and 2021.
Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas" British Book Awards, the "Nibbies" Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards) Guardian First Book Award; International Rubery Book Award; Jhalak Prize; John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Ondaatje Prize; Orwell Prize
2017: A question in the reformed OCR GCSE English Literature exam, sat by over ten thousand students, swapped the surnames of the families in the play Romeo and Juliet, asking how Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influenced the outcome of the play, when in fact, Tybalt is a Capulet himself. OCR apologised, undertook to ensure no candidates would ...