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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2012. ==Events== *January 1 — Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year. *January 20 — British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from ''The Satanic Verses'', which is banned in the country. *February — James Joyce's children's story ''The Cats of Copenhagen'' is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin. *March — The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked away in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years. *April — While attending the London Book Fair, exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book ''Beijing Coma'' and calls Chinese publishers a "mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party" after being "manhandled" while attempting to present the book to Liu Binjie at the fair. *July — Jaime García Márquez tells his students that his brother Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, suffers from dementia that has ended his writing career. *September 27 — 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson *September 28 — Sue Limb's parody of the Bloomsbury Group, ''Gloomsbury'', begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. *October 24 — Boekenberg ("Book mountain") public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by MVRDV, is opened. *December — The discovery is announced of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by Hans Christian Andersen. It was found at the bottom of a box in Denmark in October. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2012 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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