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Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize
The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize is a British and Irish literary award for a novel focusing on travel, awarded annually by the Society of Authors. It was inaugurated in 2022, and is named for Malcolm Lowry's book ''Under the Volcano'' and endowed in memory of Gordon Bowker (writer), Gordon Bowker (1934-2019), Lowry's biographer, by Ramdei Bowker. The three judges in the inaugural year of the prize were Caroline Brothers, Philip Hensher and Aamer Hussein. Brothers said of the shortlist: The prize is awarded for "a novel focusing on the experience of travel away from home" written in English, published in Britain or Ireland, by a British or Irish author or resident. The winner receives £2,000, and a runner-up receives £750. Winners and shortlists References External links * British fiction awards Irish literary awards Awards established in 2022 {{lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano Prize Logo
A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where list of tectonic plates, tectonic plates are divergent boundary, diverging or convergent boundary, converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, deep in the Earth. This results in hotspot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Menon
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Fiction Awards
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjali Joseph
Anjali Joseph (born 1978) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, '' Saraswati Park'' (2010), earned her several awards, including the Betty Trask Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, ''Another Country'', was released in 2012. In 2010, she was listed by ''The Telegraph'' as one of the 20 best writers under the age of 40. Her third novel, ''The Living'' (2016), was shortlisted for the DSC Prize and is a tender, lyrical and often funny novel which shines a light on everyday life. Her fourth novel ''Keeping in Touch'', was published in India in 2021 by Context and in the UK in 2022 by Scribe. Life and career Anjali Joseph was born in Mumbai, India, in 1978. Her father, a research scientist, is a Malayali and her mother is Bengali- Gujrati. When she was seven years old, her family relocated to England. Joseph lives in Oxford in Oxfordshire, and is married to the philosopher Simon Glendinning. Joseph studied English at Trinity College, Cambridge, after which she taught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Goldsworthy
Vesna Goldsworthy FRSL ( Bjelogrlic, sr, Bjelogrlić, pronounced: Byelogerlitch, is a Serbian writer and poet. She is from Belgrade and obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from Belgrade University in 1985. She has lived in England since 1986. As of 2023, Goldsworthy is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She previously worked at Kingston University where she was Director of the Centre for Suburban Studies. Goldsworthy is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her books include ''Inventing Ruritania'' (1998), the memoir ''Chernobyl Strawberries'' (2005),Lacey. and a collection of poems ''The Angel of Salonika'' (2011). Her first novel, ''Gorsky'', which updated the story of ''The Great Gatsby'', was published in 2015. Her second novel, ''Monsieur Ka'', which is a development of the story of ''Anna Karenina'', was published in 2018. Goldsworthy publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Armfield
Julia Armfield is an English author. She has published a collection of short stories, ''Salt Slow'' (2019), and two novels, '' Our Wives Under the Sea'' (2022), and ''Private Rites'' (2024). Early life Armfield grew up in Cobham, Surrey. Work In an interview with Sam Manzella of ''Them'', Armfield said that her debut novel was in part inspired by a wish to explore the "crossover with queer women’s fiction and the sea," adding that the ocean is often used to symbolise both "something forbidden" and something that "can be many things at once." In an interview with Sam Franzini of '' Our Culture Mag'', she stated that the novel was in part "about an anticipation of grief and losing someone," adding that part of the horror was from "the clanging bureaucracy of not being able to get an answer." ''Our Wives Under the Sea'' was nominated for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award and Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, winning the Polari Prize Polari () is a form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Park (writer)
David Park (born 1953) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. He grew up in a Protestant working-class family in East Belfast, and wrote seven novels while working as a teacher, before retiring to write full time. His ninth novel ''Spies in Canaan'', set in Vietnam, was runner-up in the 2023 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for a novel focusing on travel. Selected publications * ''Oranges from Spain'' (1990, short stories) * ''The Healing'' (1992) * ''The Rye Man'' (1994) * ''Stone Kingdoms'' (1996) * ''The Big Snow'' (2002) * ''Swallowing the Sun'' (2004) * ''The Truth Commissioner'' (2008) * ''Light of Amsterdam'' (2012) * ''The Poets' Wives'' (2014) * ''Gods & Angels'' (2016) * ''Travelling in a Strange Land'' (2018) * ''Spies in Canaan'' (2022) References 1953 births Living people Novelists from Northern Ireland 21st-century male writers from Northern Ireland 21st-century novelists from Northern Ireland {{UK-novelist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aamina Ahmad
Aamina Ahmad is a British fiction writer and playwright based in the U.S. She has two book publications, the play ''The Dishonoured'' and the novel ''The Return of Faraz Ali'', which was named a "new work to read" by ''The New York Times'', "quietly stunning" by ''The New York Times Book Review'', and a "most anticipated" book by both ''The Millions'' and ''Book Culture''. She is a creative writing professor at the University of Minnesota and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Early life and education Ahmad was born and raised in London. In 1996, she graduated from University College London, where she studied English. She later moved to the United States to attend the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied fiction and graduated in 2013. After two further years of teaching at the University of Iowa, she served as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University for two years, finishing the program in 2017. Career Ahmad worked for many years as a script editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Sudjic
Olivia Katarina Sudjic (born 1988) is a British fiction writer whose first book ''Sympathy'' received positive reviews in the press, from publications such as the ''New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The New Republic''. Background Sudjic was born in London, England, daughter of the art writer and critic Deyan Sudjic and lifestyle editor (including for ''Condé Nast Traveller'' magazine) and brand consultant Sarah Miller, daughter of architect and professor of architecture at the Royal College of Art John Miller and stepdaughter of his wife, the architect and designer Su Rogers. She was educated at the City of London School for Girls and then read English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where she won the E.G. Harwood Prize for English. ''Sympathy'' (2017) ''Sympathy'' revolves around a twenty-something woman visiting New York who becomes obsessed with an older woman via the social media app Instagram. The book is recognized for addressing generational differences: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt FRSL is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer. She has written seven novels and is a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. In 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Early life McWatt was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and moved to Canada with her family when she was three years old. She was raised in Toronto, where her family embraced the Canadian outdoors through camping, skiing, and canoeing. As a child, McWatt was interested in music, sports, and literature. Even as a child she knew she wanted to be a writer. Education McWatt studied English literature at Queen's University and then earned her MA at the University of Toronto. Her MA focused on post-colonial literature and explored subject matter like how outsiders are perceived within society and how there are conflicting ideas regarding belonging. Career After university, she found employment as an editor and college instruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Authors
The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and associates. The SoA vets members' contracts and advises on professional issues, as well as providing training, representing authors in collective negotiations with publishers to improve contract terms, lobbying on issues that affect authors such as copyright, UK arts funding and Public Lending Right. The SoA administers a range of grants for writers in need (The Authors' Contingency Fund, The Francis Head Bequest and The P.D. James Memorial Fund) and to fund work in progress (The Authors’ Foundation and K Blundell Trust), awarding more than £250,000 to writers each year. The SoA also administers prizes for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translation and drama, including the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. The SoA acts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie O'Connell
Jamie is a unisex name. It is a diminutive form of James or, more rarely, other names. It is also given as a name in its own right. People Female * Jamie Anne Allman (born 1977), American actress * Jamie Babbit (born 1970), American film and television director * Jamie Belsito (born 1973), American politician * Jamie Bernadette, American actress and occasional producer * Jamie Bochert (born 1978), American fashion model and musician * Jamie Brewer, American actress and model * Jamie Broumas (born 1959), American jazz singer * Jamie Chadwick (born 1998), British racing driver * Jamie Chung (born 1983), American actress * Jamie Clayton (born 1978), American actress and model * Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), American actress and author * Jamie Dantzscher (born 1982), American artistic gymnast * Jamie Finn (born 1998, Irish footballer * Jamie Gauthier, American Democratic politician * Jamie Ginn (born 1982), American beauty queen * Jamie Gorelick (born 1950), American law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
