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David Higham Prize
The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received." Past winners *1975 - Jane Gardam - ''Black Faces, White Faces'' and Matthew Vaughan - ''Chalky'' *1976 - Caroline Blackwood - ''The Stepdaughter'' *1977 - Patricia Finney - ''A Shadow of Gulls'' *1978 - Leslie Norris - ''Sliding: Short Stories'' *1979 - John Harvey - ''The Plate Shop'' *1980 - Ted Harriot - ''Keep On Running'' *1981 - Christopher Hope - ''A Separate Development'' *1982 - Glyn Hughes - ''Where I Used to Play on the Green'' *1983 - R. M. Lamming - '' The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti'' *1984 - James Buchan - ''A Parish of Rich Women'' *1985 - Patricia Ferguson - ''Family Myths and Legends'' *1986 - Jim Crace - ''Continent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Higham
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and Lyre, harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges David and Jonathan, a notably close friendship with Jonathan (1 Samuel), Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Birch
Carol Birch (born 1951) is an English novelist, lecturer and book critic. She also teaches creative writing. Life Birch was born in Manchester. Her parents had met in a wartime armaments factory. Her father, a metallurgist, also played trombone in a Manchester jazz band known as The Saints. She took English and American Studies at Keele University. After a period in the Waterloo area of London (which would be the setting for her first novel), she moved to County Cork, Ireland, with her first husband, an artist, taking his name Birch and turning to writing, but she returned to London, where the marriage ended. Birch and her second husband, Martin Butler, moved back to the North West in 1989. She currently lives with her family in Lancaster, where her husband teaches at Lancaster and Morecambe College. Awards The author of twelve novels, Birch won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for ''Life in the Palace'', and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Book Awards
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number 1 (number), one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and record producer Albums * 1st (album), ''1st'' (album), a 1983 album by Streets * 1st (Rasmus EP), ''1st'' (Rasmus EP), a 1995 EP by The Rasmus, frequently identified as a single * ''1ST'', a 2021 album by SixTones * First (Baroness EP), ''First'' (Baroness EP), an EP by Baroness * First (Ferlyn G EP), ''First'' (Ferlyn G EP), an EP by Ferlyn G * First (David Gates album), ''First'' (David Gates album), an album by David Gates * First (O'Bryan album), ''First'' (O'Bryan album), an album by O'Bryan * First (Raymond Lam album), ''First'' (Raymond Lam album), an album by Raymond Lam * ''First'', an album by Denise Ho Songs * First (Cold War Kids song), "First" (Cold War Kids song), a song by Cold War Kids * First (Lindsay Lohan song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopping (novel)
''Shopping'', is the debut novel by British author Gavin Kramer, published in 1998 by Fourth Estate. It won the David Higham Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Plot Introduction Tall, awkward Meadowlark, an English lawyer is determined to make a success of his two-year assignment in Tokyo. He appears dull, infallible and incorruptible; immune to the temptations of the Roppongi nightlife. But then he meets Sachiko - a fashion obsessed teenager who leads him on an expensive buying spree. Eventually, Sachiko meets a richer sponsor and Meadowlark falls apart. Reception Reviews were generally positive : *Francine Prose in ''The New York Times'' wrote, "Kramer's vision and analysis of Japanese society are neither especially profound nor revelatory, but his book is a great deal of fun"..."Kramer has a sharp ear for the hilarious conversations that take place when the participants speak just enough of the same language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Kramer
Gavin Kramer (born 1961) is a British writer. He was born in London and studied at Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola .... His debut novel ''Shopping'' won the David Higham Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. References British writers 1961 births Living people Writers from London Date of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller ''Stolen Continents'', winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by ''The Independent'' and the ''Sunday Times''. His first novel, ''A Scientific Romance'', won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the ''Globe and Mail'', the ''Sunday Times'', and the ''New York Times''. Early life and education He studied archaeology at Cambridge University and later at the University of Calgary, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996. Career Wright has a background in archaeology, history, linguistics, anthropology and comparative culture. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books dealing with anthropology and civilizations. Wright was selected to give the 2004 Massey Lectures. His contribution, ''A Short History of Progress'', looks at the mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Grant (novelist)
Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist. Early life Linda Grant was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted the surname Grant in the early 1950s. She was educated at The Belvedere School, read English at the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed an M.A. in English at McMaster University in Canada. She did post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University. Career In 1985, Grant returned to England and became a journalist, working for ''The Guardian'', and eventually wrote her own column for eighteen months. She published her first book, a non-fiction work, ''Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution'', in 1993. She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with vascular dementia called ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Chandra (novelist)
Vikram Chandra (born 23 July 1961) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, ''Red Earth and Pouring Rain'', won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Early life Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961. His father Navin Chandra was a business executive. His mother Kamna Chandra has written several Hindi films and plays. His sister Tanuja Chandra is a filmmaker and screenwriter who has also directed several films. His other sister Anupama Chopra is a film critic. Chandra did his high school education at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He attended at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and, as an undergraduate student, transferred to Kenyon College in the United States. Chandra felt isolated at Kenyon so he transferred to Pomona College, Claremont, California, where he graduated with a B.A. ''magna cum laude'' in English. He attended film school at Columbia University, leaving halfway through to begin work on his first novel. He received his M.A. from The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Longest Memory
''The Longest Memory'' is a 1994 short novel (138 pages long) by British writer Fred D'Aguiar. It was the Guyana-born poet's first novel, The story takes place on a Virginian plantation, in the period before the American Civil War, between 1790 and 1810. The book is told through many different people and in different forms. It begins in the first person, with Whitechapel, the oldest and most respected slave on the plantation, recounting the sorrows of his life. From there on, each chapter is narrated by a different character, sometimes speaking through verse, via diary entry or in the second person. Most of the chapters are narrated by characters central to the story; however, chapter 11 is purely made up of fictitious editorials from the local newspaper known as ''The Virginian''. Plot A young slave, Chapel, falls in love with the daughter of the plantation owner. He attempts to run away and join his lover in the north. However his father, Whitechapel, betrays his whereabouts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright. He is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Life Fred D'Aguiar was born in London, England, in 1960 to Guyanese parents, Malcolm Frederick D'Aguiar and Kathleen Agatha Messiah. In 1962 he was taken to Guyana, living there with his grandmother until 1972, when he returned to England at the age of 12. D'Aguiar trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. On graduating he applied for a PhD on the Guyanese author Wilson Harris at the University of Warwick, but – after winning two writers-in-residency positions, at Birmingham University and the University of Cambridge (where he was the Judith E. Wilson Fellow from 1989 to 1990) – his PhD studies "receded from ismind" and he began to focus all of his energies on creative writing. In 1994, D'Aguiar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. Fiction Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. ''Wide Open'' and ''Behindlings'' are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island. Together with ''Darkmans'' (2007) they form an informal trilogy based around the Thames Gateway. ''Darkmans'' won the 2008 Hawthornden Prize. Patrick Ness's review in ''The Guardian'' described the book as "phenomenally good" despite it being a "838-page epic with little describable plot, taking place over just a few days and set in... Ashford" Her 2004 novel, ''Clear'', is set in London during David Blaine's ''Above the Below'' 44-day fast in London in 2003. Awards and honours *1993: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award co-winner for ''Love Your En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Barker
Elspeth Barker (16 November 1940 – 21 April 2022) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. Born as Elspeth Langlands, she was raised in Drumtochty Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where her parents ran a prep school for boys. From 1958, she read Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Somerville College, Oxford. Barker's only novel, ''O Caledonia'', was published in 1991. It won four awards and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Her edited anthology ''Loss'', about bereavement, was published in 1997, and her reviews and essays in a 2012 collection, ''Dog Days''. Her first husband was the poet George Barker by whom she had five children, including the novelist Raffaella Barker. In 2007, she married the writer Bill Troop. Barker died at her home in Aylsham Aylsham ( or ) is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Bure in north Norfolk, England, nearly north of Norwich. The river rises near Melton Constable, upstream from Aylsham and continues to Great Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
