26 October 2012

Kids' Lit Quiz - selecting OLA teams for the Oxford Heat

The preliminary rounds to select OLA's two Kids' Lit Quiz teams have been taking place during Year 7's and Year 8's Library lessons. Higher scorers will be invited to a further rounds taking place in their own time, and they will need to confirm their availability to take part.

This year the Oxfordshire & Berkshire Heat will be taking place on Friday 30 November in Oxford at St Gregory the Great School, Cricket Road, Oxford OX4 3DR, 14.30 - 17.30. It’s a great spectator event and super entertainment: put the date in your diary now!

The winning team of this heat will join 15 other Regional Winners in the UK KLQ Final on Thursday 6 December in Coventry. The National Champions will be invited to the Kids' Lit Quiz International Final in Durban, South Africa in Summer 2013.
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16 October 2012

Recent awards and prizes

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize 2012. It is the sequel to her prizewinning book Wolf Hall, set in Tudor England and focuses on the fall of Anne Boleyn.

The Chinesse novelist, Mo Yan, has won the Nobel prize in literature 2012. He is the first ever Chinese literature Nobel laureate.

The Hans Christian Andersen Prize Winner is Chilean author Isabel Allende. This Danish literature award is given to a writer whose works compare with those of Andersen, who lived 1805 - 1875 and wrote about 160 fairytales and poems.