Martyn Skinner

	Martyn Skinner Martyn Skinner (24 August 1906 – 25 October 1993) was a British poet. He won the 1943 Hawthornden Prize for ''Letters to Malaya'' and the Heinemann Award in 1947, for the last volume of that title, or the entire collection. Skinner was born in Fitzhead, Somerset, in southwest England. According to John Clute, his "most ambitious works were two long narrative poems", or poem sequences. ''The Return of Arthur'' "is set in a Near Future England transformed into a totalitarian Dystopia; but a reborn Arthur from another Dimension returns, and the Matter of Britain is again told as the Millennium approaches". ''Old Rectory'' is set in a more distant "Ruined Earth Britain, where a hermit mage named Old Rectory decides to return to society and redeem it". Skinner's correspondence with the novelist R. C. Hutchinson has been published as ''Two Men of Letters'' (1979), . Poems * ''Sir Elfadore and Mabyna: A Poem in Four Cantos'' (1935), * ''Letters to Malaya'' (1941 to 1947) * ''Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hawthornden Prize The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender, who was born at Hawthornden Castle. Authors under the age of 41 are awarded on the quality of their "imaginative literature", which can be written in either poetry or prose. The Hawthornden Committee awards the Prize annually for a work published in the previous twelve months. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87). Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden does not solicit submissions. It is also universal in its coverage of the literary, welcoming fiction, travel writing, artistic and historical works. The Hawthornden Prize, along with the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Monetarily, it is modest: it offered £100 in 1936, in 1995 was worth £2000 and by 2017 had increased to £15,000. It is administered by the Hawthornden Trust set up by Warrender, and sponsored by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Heinemann Award The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established by William Heinemann who bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.Directory of Grants in the Humanities The Heinemann Award is given primarily to reward those classes of literature which are less remunerative; namely, poetry, criticism, biography, Awards list 1945 ''A Prospect of Flowers'', botanical reminiscences by Andrew Young, poet and vicar of Stonegate in Sussex 1946 ''The Garden'' by Vita Sackville-West 1947 ''Letters to Malaya'' by Martyn Skinner 1948 ''Selected Poems'' by John Betjeman 1951 ''Gormenghast'' and ''The Glassblowers'' by Mervyn Peake 1952 '' The Cruel Sea'' by Nicholas Monsarrat 1953 Edwin Muir 1954 ''The Ermine: poems, 1942–1952'' by Ruth Pitter (joint winner) 1954 ''The Go-Between'' by L.P. Hartley (joint winner) 1955 ''Song at the Year's Turning'' by R. S. Thomas 1956 ''Roman Mornings'' by James Lees-Milne 1958 ''The Chequer'd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fitzhead Fitzhead is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated approximately north west of Taunton. The village has an estimated population of 264. History The name of the village, which was recorded as ''Fifida'' in 1178 indicates the original extent of five hides (about . The parish of Fitzhead was part of the Kingsbury Hundred, Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Clute John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history"Davis, MattheJohn Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, ''Strange Horizons,'' 18 September 2006. and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine '' Interzone'' in 1982 (the others included Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, and David Pringle). Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1960s. He is a co-editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (with Peter Nicholls) and of ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' (with John Grant), as well as the author of ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,'' all of which won Hugo Awards for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ..., first published in 1979. It has won the Hugo Award, Hugo, Locus Award, Locus and BSFA Award, British SF Awards. Two print editions appeared in 1979 and 1993. A third, continuously revised, edition was published online from 2011; a change of web host was announced as the launch of a fourth edition in 2021. History The first edition, edited by Peter Nicholls (writer), Peter Nicholls with John Clute, was published by Granada plc, Granada in 1979. It was retitled ''The Science Fiction Encyclopedia'' when published by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday in the United States. Accompanying its text were numerous black and white photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' is a 1997 reference work concerning fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant. Other contributors include Mike Ashley, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, David Langford, Sam J. Lundwall, Michael Scott Rohan, Brian Stableford and Lisa Tuttle. The book was well-received on publication. During 1998, it received the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award. The industry publication ''Library Journal'' described ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' as "the first of its kind". Since November 2012, the full text of ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' is available on-line, as a companion to the on-line edition of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''. The editors of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' have stated that there are not any plans to update ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'', at least for the foreseeable future, although some death dates post-1997 have been added. However, author and theme entries in ''The Encyclopedia of Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1906 Births Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. Two British members of a poll tax collecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]