This was not big news in my family, since we routinely enjoyed encounters with the departed.
"This has been a bumper year for non-fiction, and as judges we've enjoyed encountering new places and faces as well as enjoying classic stories being told afresh," said chair of judges David Willetts, universities minister.
Wherever you choose to dive this year, I hope you enjoy incredible encounters with some of nature's most amazing creatures.
Federer seemed to enjoy the encounter as much as Sugita did.
"You could not write the script for me when the draw was made, and I did enjoy the encounter," said Brown, who left Hull in 2010.
The funny thing is, though, that no sooner have I been delivered to Bradford's peachy drawing room by the elevator man, than I realise that the person who is really going to enjoy this encounter is her.
But in the seasons that followed, Jones has gotten out and about, enjoying his encounters with New York fans, who have generally been, well, chipper about encountering Chipper.
Elsewhere on Orkney, I enjoyed close encounters with virtually every other British seabird.
Enjoying his encounters with Jed does seem a bridge too far: if you're going to play with fire, it's probably best not to do so while doused in petrol.
Máni often enjoys his encounters, and his love of the cinema leads him to Irma Vep, the anti-heroine of Louis Feuillade's seven-hour epic crime movie, Les Vampires, in which an "eponymous gang of nihilists... hold French society in the grip of fear".
