Naji's sentence likely makes him the first-ever author in Egypt's modern history to be sentenced to jail time for explicit content in a work of fiction.
And this May, Hess is embarking on his first-ever author tour, which will include screenings of Forced Perspective in select cities. VICE caught up with Hess on the phone, and he's as relaxed and soft-spoken as he comes across on film.
The hook is that the resulting set of three short pieces (which does not, incidentally, include the book's title story) is "the first-ever author-approved stage adaptation" of Mr. McEwan's work.
The novel sold 280,000 copies and won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française and then the coveted Prix Goncourt (the first ever awarded to an American author).
Oh my God!" Anyone listening would take her for a debut author, meeting her first ever fan.
The authors highlight the first ever fall in Fairtrade sales since the launch 20 years ago of the scheme to offer developing world farmers a minimum price.
The authors present the first ever laparoscopic-assisted uterus retrieval in a live donor for uterus transplant.
In a 2011 study by Nicolás Campione and David Evans, the authors conducted the first ever morphometric analysis to compare the various specimens assigned to Edmontosaurus.
This month we've invited several LGBT authors to participate in our first ever Voice to Voice conversation series.
To the best of the authors׳ knowledge, this is the first ever paper that applies firefly based algorithms for RTL optimization.
