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John Burnside
John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (''Black Cat Bone''). Life and works Burnside was born in Dunfermline and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby. He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. His first collection of poetry, ''The Hoop'', was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include ''Common Knowledge'' (1991), ''Feast Days'' (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and ''The Asylum Dance'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burnside
John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (''Black Cat Bone''). Life and works Burnside was born in Dunfermline and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby. He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. His first collection of poetry, ''The Hoop'', was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include ''Common Knowledge'' (1991), ''Feast Days'' (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and ''The Asylum Dance'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Review Of Books
The ''London Review of Books'' (''LRB'') is a British literary magazine published twice monthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews. History The ''London Review of Books'' was founded in 1979, when publication of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' was suspended during the year-long lock-out at ''The Times''. Its founding editors were Karl Miller, then professor of English at University College London; Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor at ''The Times Literary Supplement''; and Susannah Clapp, a former editor at Jonathan Cape. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in ''The New York Review of Books''. It became an independent publication in May 1980. Its political stance has been described by Alan Bennett, a prominent contributor, as "consistently radical". Unlike ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (TLS), the majority of the articles the ''LRB'' publishes (usually fifteen per issue) are l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corine Literature Prize
The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by the Bavarian chapter of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, first awarded in 2001. It is awarded to German and international "authors for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public." The award announced on its website that it would take a break for 2012 and relaunch in 2013, but has not returned . Trophy The "Corine" trophy is a figurine produced by the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. "Corine" was first manufactured in 1760 as part of a sixteen-figure set of ''commedia dell'arte'' performers in porcelain, designed by the German modeller Franz Anton Bustelli (1723–1763). Winners 2001 * Fiction: Zeruya Shalev for '' Mann und Frau'' * Fiction: Henning Mankell for '' One Step Behind'' * Non-fiction: Pascale N. Bercovitch for '' Das Lächeln des Delphins'' * Non-fiction: Simon Singh for ''The Code Book'' * Illustrated Non-fiction: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN/Ackerley Prize
PEN Ackerley Prize (or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year. The winner receives £3,000. In recent years, the winner has been announced at the annual English PEN summer party. The prize was established by Nancy West, née Ackerley, sister of English author and editor J. R. Ackerley, and was first awarded in 1982. The prize is judged by the trustees of the J. R. Ackerley Trust; biographer and historian Peter Parker (Chair), writer and painter Colin Spencer, author Georgina Hammick and writer and critic Claire Harman. There is no formal submission process for the award — judges simply "call in" books to be added to their longlist. Recipients * 1982: Edward Blishen, ''Shaky Relations'' * 1983: Joint winners: **Kathleen Dayus, ''Her People'' ** Ted Walker, ''High Path'' * 1984: Richard Cobb, ''Still Life'' * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cholmondeley Award
The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000. List of prize winners 2020s 2022 * Menna Elfyn * * Tiffany Atkinson * * Maggie O'Sullivan 2021 * Kei Miller * Paula Claire * Maurice Riordan * Susan Wicks * Katrina Porteous 2020 * Bhanu Kapil * Alec Finlay * Linda France * Hannah Lowe * Rod Mengham 2010s 2019 * Malika Booker * Fred D'Aguiar * Allen Fisher * Jamie McKendrick 2018 * Vahni Capildeo * Kate Clanchy * Linton Kwesi Johnson * Daljit Nagra * Zoë Skoulding 2017 * Caroline Bergvall * Sasha Dugdale * Philip Gross * Paula Meehan 2016 * Maura Dooley * David Morley * Peter Sansom * Iain Sinclair 2015 * Patience Agbabi * Brian Catling * Christopher Middleton * J. H. Prynne * Pascale Petit 2014 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltire Society
The Saltire Society is a membership organisation which aims to promote the understanding of the culture and heritage of Scotland. Founded in 1936, the society was "set up to promote and celebrate the uniqueness of Scottish culture and Scotland’s heritage, and to reclaim Scotland’s place as a distinct contributor to European and international culture." The society organises lectures and publishes pamphlets, and presents a series of awards in the fields of art, architecture, literature and history. The society is based in Edinburgh, with branches in Aberdeen, Dumfries, Glasgow, Helensburgh, the Highlands, Kirriemuir and New York City. The current president is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, Sally Mapstone. History The society was founded on 22 April 1936 in Glasgow, conceived by Andrew Dewar Gibb and George Malcolm Thomson. Subscription for a year cost five shillings. By the early 1950s the society had almost 2000 members. In 1954 they launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitbread Book Award
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then a brewery and owner of restaurant chains, it was renamed when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship. The companion Costa Short Story Award was established in 2012. Costa Coffee was purchased by the Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The awards were abruptly terminated in 2022. The awards were given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limits winners to literature written in the UK and Ireland. Awards were separated into six categories: Biography, Children's Books, First Novel, Novel, Poetry, and Shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encore Award
The £10,000 Encore Award for the best second novel was first awarded in 1990. It is sponsored by Lucy Astor. The award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes by celebrating the achievement of outstanding second novels, often neglected in comparison to the attention given to promising first books. Entry is by publisher. List of winners References External links *{{Official website, http://rsliterature.org/award/rsl-encore-award/ British fiction awards Awards established in 1990 1990 establishments in the United Kingdom Society of Authors awards Royal Society of Literature awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Arts Council Book Award
The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, formerly known as the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, were a series of literary awards in Scotland that ran from 1972 to 2013. Organised by Creative Scotland (formerly the Scottish Arts Council), and sponsored by the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. There were four categories: fiction; poetry; literary non-fiction; and first books. The winners in each category were selected by a panel of judges, and a public vote decided the overall winner of the Book of the Year award. The category winners received £5,000 each, with the Book of the Year winner receiving a further £25,000. Book of the Year winners *1994 Andrew Cowan, ''Pig'' *1995 Ali Smith, '' Free Love and Other Stories'' *2001 Ali Smith, ''Hotel World'' *2004 James Robertson, '' Joseph Knight'' *2005 Kathleen Jamie, ''The Tree House'' *2006 James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love'' *2007 Kirsty Gunn, ''The Boy and the Sea'' *2008 Edwin Morgan, ''A Book of Lives'' *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alpine Fellowship
The Alpine Fellowship is a charitable foundation that supports, commissions and showcases artists, writers, academics and playwrights. It was founded in 2013 by artist Alan J Lawson and Jacob Burda. The Symposium The focal point of activities is an annual four day symposium. The symposium 'draws together participants from academia, the arts and business' and they have been held on the themes of 'home', 'representation', 'the self-portrait', 'ephemera' and 'landscape'. Fellows, "can attend the symposium by competing in one of the different prize categories: drama, writing and visual arts." Previous guests have included playwrights Jessica Swale, Polly Stenham, actor Charity Wakefield, philosophers Simon May and Sir Roger Scruton, the novelist Ian McEwan, the poets, Ruth Padel, Gillian Clarke and John Burnside, film maker Luc Jacquet and art historians, including Andrew Graham-Dixon. Symposiums have been held in Switzerland, Scotland, and Italy. In 2015 The Alpine Fellowship e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...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] |
