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Jerwood Award
The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing. The awards were administrated by the Royal Society of Literature on behalf of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Recipients must have a publishing contract and be citizens of either the UK or Ireland, or have been residents in one of these for at least the last three years. In 2017 the awards were replaced by the Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction. Recipients 2016 * Violet Moller for ''The Geography of Knowledge'', Pan Macmillan (£10k) * Afua Hirsch for ''Brit(ish): Getting Under the Skin of Britain's Race Problem'', Cape (£5k) * Damian Le Bas (writer) for ''Stopping Places'', Chatto (£5k) 2015 * Thomas Morris for ''The Matter of the Heart'', Bodley Head (£10k) * Catherine Nixey for '' The Darkening Age'', MacMillan (£5k) * Duncan White for ''Cold Warriors: Waging Literary War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are chosen from those who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of literature, including publishers, agents, librarians, booksellers or producers. The society is a cultural tenant at London's Somerset House. History The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) was founded in 1820, with the patronage of George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent", and its first president was Thomas Burgess (bishop, born 1756), Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (who was later translated as Bishop of Salisbury). At the heart of the RSL is its Fellowship, "which encompasses the most distinguished w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Adshead
Gwen Adshead (born 1960) is a forensic psychotherapist, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School of Law and Psychiatry, and consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House. At the age of 11 Adshead flew to England alone to attend Cheltenham Ladies' College as a boarder. Adshead qualified in medicine in 1983 and holds two master's degrees; in medical law and ethics, and in mindfulness based cognitive therapy. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2005. She was previously a consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, where she treated people referred to by the media as "the violent insane", but whom she described as "not mad or bad, but sad". She has written more than a hundred academic papers. In 2012 received a Jerwood Award to support the writing of ''A Short Book About Evil'', published 28 Apr 2015. Personal Life She is the mother of two boys. She is a Christian and enjoys singing as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born 1963 in Preston, Lancashire) is a British poet. He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. He has also written novels, libretti and texts for oratorios and song cycles. He regularly writes and presents documentaries and dramas for broadcasting and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Life and career Michael Symmons Roberts spent his childhood in Lancashire before moving south with his family to Newbury in Berkshire in the early '70s. He went to comprehensive school in Newbury, then to Regent's Park College, Oxford to read Philosophy and Theology. After graduating, he trained as a newspaper journalist before joining the BBC in Cardiff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Farley
Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster. Life and work Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. His first collection of poetry, ''The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You'' (1998) won a Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) in 1998, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. The book also gained him the Somerset Maugham Award, and in 1999 he won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. From 2000 to 2002 he was the poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. His second collection, ''The Ice Age'' (2002), received the Whitbread Poetry Award. In 2004, Farley was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets His third collection, ''Tramp in Flames''(2006), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, a poem from which, ‘Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second’, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hollis
Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an English people, English author, editor, professor, and poet, currently living in London, England. Career and background He was born in Norwich, the son of Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, politician Patricia Hollis and academic Martin Hollis (philosopher), Martin Hollis. He has studied at the universities of Edinburgh and York. He presently lives in London, England, writing as well as serving as a tutor for the London Poetry School and working as an editor at Faber and Faber. He is a member of the international educational and cultural enhancement organisation the British Council, taking part in the Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council's 'First Lines' program in 2001. Hollis has published a variety of written works. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection ''Ground Water'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Hewitt
Rachel Hewitt is a writer of creative non-fiction, and lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University. Education Hewitt attended the University of Oxford, where she studied English Literature at Corpus Christi College for a BA and M.St. She completed a PhD in 2007 in English literature at Queen Mary University, London, with a thesis on romanticism and mapping titled ''Dreaming o'er the Map of Things: The Ordnance Survey and Literature of the British Isles, 1747-1842''. In 2009, she was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, to the Department of English and Drama at Queen Mary. In 2011, Hewitt was announced as one of ten BBC Radio 3 AHRC New Generation Thinkers. Writing career Hewitt's first book ''Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey'' was published in 2010 by Granta, and built on her PhD thesis work. Hewitt was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction for this project. Her second book ''A Revolution of Feeling: The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Hollingworth
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspar Henderson
Caspar Henderson is a British writer and journalist living in Oxford, England. He writes on the subjects of energy, science, environment and human rights. Biography Henderson was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After working as a film script reader in Los Angeles, an aid worker in Uganda, and a research assistant and junior journalist working on human rights and the arming of Iraq by foreign powers and other matters, he became co-ordinator of the Green College Centre at Oxford University from 1992 to 1994, which focused on climate change and other environmental issues. In 1995 and 1996 he worked on ''Costing the Earth'', the flagship environment program on BBC Radio 4. From 1996 to 2002 he wrote on topics such as energy, science, environment and human rights for ''The Financial Times'', ''The Independent'', ''New Scientist'', ''The Ecologist'', ''Environmental Finance'', ''Green Futures'' and other newspapers, magazines, and broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Beckman
Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 film), an American film directed by Bill Oliver * ''Jonathan'' (Buffy comic), a 2001 comic book based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series * ''Jonathan'' (TV show), a Welsh-language television show hosted by ex-rugby player Jonathan Davies People and biblical figures Bible *Jonathan (1 Samuel), son of King Saul of Israel and friend of David, in the Books of Samuel *Jonathan (Judges), in the Book of Judges Judaism *Jonathan Apphus, fifth son of Mattathias and leader of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea from 161 to 143 BCE *Rabbi Jonathan, 2nd century *Jonathan (High Priest), a High Priest of Israel in the 1st century Other *Jonathan (apple), a variety of apple * "Jonathan" (song), a 2015 song by French singer and songwrite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Beam
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Monro (writer)
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Alexander Monro may refer to: *Alexander Monro (educator), Principal of the University of Edinburgh, 1685–1690 * Alexander Monro (primus) (1697–1767), Scottish physician, founder of Edinburgh Medical School * Alexander Monro (secundus) (1733–1817), son of previous, Scottish physician and medical educator * Alexander Monro (tertius) (1773–1859), son of previous, Scottish physician, Professor of anatomy See also * Alexander Munro (other) * Monro Family (Physicians) The Monro of Fyrish family were a Scottish family and branch of the ancient highland Clan Munro. The family produced a notable dynasty of doctors to London in the 18th and 19th century where they were involved in early work on curing 'insanity'. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Morland
Polly Morland is a British writer and documentary maker. She worked in television for 15 years as a producer and director of documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery, including ''The 9/11 Conspiracies'' (2004), '' Who Wrote the Bible?'' (2004) and ''The Fourth Age 410 AD - 1066 AD'' in the series '' Seven Ages of Britain'' (2003). Morland received a Jerwood Award in 2011 for work on her 2013 book ''The Society of Timid Souls: Or How to be Brave''. The award was given by the Royal Society of Literature for "to authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction". The book is a study of courage and takes its name from a group set up by 1940s American concert pianist Bernard Gabriel to help performers overcome stage fright. In the course of the book Morland talks to "soldiers, surfers, a matador, firefighters and professional daredevils ... a man who fixes the upper sections of skyscrapers, and is afraid of heights ... people who have been diagnosed wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
