Sport in Ottawa national titles again in 2014 and in 2017. Each year, Ottawa hosts one of the largest curling tournaments in the world, the OVCA Ottawa Men's Bonspiel (more commonly known as the "City of Ottawa bonspiel") which has been held since 1956. Ottawa is home to one of the oldest curling clubs in the world, the Ottawa Curling Club which was founded in 1851. Curling in the Ottawa area is overseen by the Ottawa Valley Curling Association. Ottawa has had three International League franchises in its history. The Ottawa Giants (1951), the Ottawa Athletics (1952–1955) and most recently, the Ottawa Lynx
A Girl in Winter stated that he had originally intended to write further novels, but he published no more fiction after "A Girl in Winter", possibly because of a shortage of material on which to draw for inspiration. John Osborne called it "the most underestimated work in the Larkin canon" and "a harbinger of greatness". The book was adapted for radio and broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2013, along with an adaptation of Larkin's first novel, "Jill". A Girl in Winter A Girl in Winter is a novel by Philip Larkin, first published in 1947 by Faber and Faber. It was published in