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BBC National Short Story Award
BBC National Short Story Award is a British literary award for short stories. It was founded in 2005 by the NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) with support from BBC Radio 4 and '' Prospect'' magazine. The winner receives for a single short-story. The award was originally known as 'National Short Story Award' and renamed to 'BBC' starting in 2008 to reflect the current sponsor. The award has been called the richest prize in the world for a single short story, however the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is greater at . Normally the award is open to British authors only, in 2012 the award was opened to a global audience for one year only in honour of the 2012 Summer Olympics which were hosted in London. Winners *2006 – "An Anxious Man", James Lasdun *2007 – "The Orphan and the Mob", Julian Gough *2008 – "The Numbers", Clare Wigfall *2009 – "The Not-Dead and the Saved", Kate Clanchy *2010 – "Tea at the Midland", David Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Constantine
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a Supernumerary Fellow. He lectured in German at Durham University from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford University from 1981 to 2000. He was the co-editor of the literary journal ''Modern Poetry in Translation''. Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, he is commissioning editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the TS Eliot Prize. His collections of poetry include ''Madder'', ''Watching for Dolphins'', ''Caspar Hauser'', ''The Pelt of Wasps'', ''Something for the Ghosts'', ''Collected Poems'' and ''Nine Fathom Deep''. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2015, the film ''45 Years'', based on Constantine's short story "In Another Country", enjoyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Awards
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Awards Established In 2005
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Literary Awards
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Lucy Caldwell
Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist. She was the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award. Biography Born in Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into one of the darkest and most turbulent years of the Troubles: the year the hunger strikes began, when within a few months Bobby Sands and nine others died; when things seemed to be spiralling irrevocably out of control. She studied at Strathearn School and later at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a First-Class Degree, and Goldsmiths College, London. Caldwell left the city she had always considered "boring, introverted" in 1999, but later declared: "yes, it's true: I do love this city, and I do love these streets, and I am proud to be from here." In June 2004, Caldwell's first short play, ''The River'', was performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and subsequently the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play won her the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Lloyd
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Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidad and Tobago-born writer, artist, and academic, who lives in the United Kingdom. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017, with her debut effort ''The Sweet Sop''. The story is about an estranged father and son reunited through their shared love for chocolate. In 2020, Persaud's novel ''Love After Love'', was published by Faber in the UK and One World/Random House in the USA. ''Love After Love'' won the Costa Book Award for First Novel in 2020. She has written for the magazines ''Granta'', '' Prospect'' and '' Pree'', as well as for ''The Guardian'' and the '' I'' newspapers. Writing career Persaud began writing in her 40s, after a successful career as a legal academic and visual artist. Persaud read law at the London School of Economics, and studied fine art at Goldsmith College and Central St. Martins. She taught law at King's College, London, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynan Jones
Cynan Jones (born 1975) is a Welsh writer, who lives and works in Ceredigion. Jones published his first novel, ''The Long Dry'', in 2006. In 2010 he published '' Le Cose Che Non Vogliamo Più (Things We Don't Want Anymore)'' in Italian. He later published three novels between 2011 and 2014. In autumn 2016, ''Cove'' became his sixth published work. His work has been translated into other languages, and his short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications like ''Granta'' and ''New Welsh Review.'' The story ''A Glass of Cold Water'' aired on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. Jones has been noted as an author and received some awards. In October 2017, he won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for ''The Edge of the Shoal''. Early career Jones was born near Aberaeron, Ceredigion. ''The Long Dry'', his first novel, was awarded a 2007 Betty Trask Award. In 2008, the author himself was named as the Hay Festival ''Scritture Giovani''. A chapter from ''The Dig'', fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Buckley (author)
Jonathan Buckley (born 1 January 1992) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann since 2017. Early life Buckley grew up outside Portadown, where he still lives today. Political career Buckley has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann since 2017. He succeeded retiring veteran legislator Sydney Anderson. During the campaign, he publicly exhorted voters in the constituency to vote and to transfer to other Unionist candidates. He was declared the winner on 3 March 2017. This made Buckley the youngest elected representative for the DUP. In October 2021 Buckley voted against ‘safe zones’ outside abortion clinics, saying the move which supporters claim is designed to protect women from physical and verbal harassment was “regressive”. In May 2022, Buckley admitted that he was "surprised" to learn that he had been nominated by Anne Donaghy's office for an MBE f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American author and journalist who lives in the United Kingdom. Her novel '' We Need to Talk About Kevin'' won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Early life and education Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver, in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a religious family. Her father, Donald, is a Presbyterian minister who became an academic and president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York; her mother was a homemaker. At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given and, as a tomboy, felt a conventionally male name was more appropriate. Shriver was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University ( BA, MFA). She has lived in Nairobi and Belfast, and currently resides in London. She has taught metalsmithing at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut. Writing Fiction Shriver had written eight novels, of which seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
