Portal:Literature/Did you know/5

... that Samuel Minturn Peck was the first Poet Laureate of Alabama, a title created for him, from 1930 until his death in 1938?
... that James McBride was described as "clearly stunned" when his novel The Good Lord Bird won the National Book Award for Fiction?
... that Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
... that German-born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language?
... that John Fowles' postmodern novel The French Lieutenant's Woman both emulated and parodied popular Victorian novels, like those of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy?