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McKitterick Prize
The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of ''The Political Quarterly'' but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000. The McKitterick Prize was first awarded in 1990. List of prize winners 1990s * 1990 - Simon Mawer for ''Chimera'' * 1991 - John Loveday for ''Halo'' * 1992 - Alberto Manguel for ''News from a Foreign Country Came'' * 1993 - Andrew Barrow for ''The Tap Dancer'' * 1994 - Helen Dunmore for ''Zennor in Darkness'' * 1995 - Christopher Bigsby for ''Hester'' * 1996 - Stephen Blanchard for ''Gagarin and I'' * 1997 - Patricia Duncker for '' Hallucinating Foucault'' * 1998 - Eli Gottlieb for '' The Boy Who Went Away'' * 1999 - Magnus Mills for '' The Restraint of Beasts'' 2000s * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Mills
Magnus Mills (born in 1954 in Birmingham) is an English fiction writer and bus driver. He is best known for his first novel, '' The Restraint of Beasts'', which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and praised by Thomas Pynchon. Background Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a master's degree course at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion.Julian Flanagan: "Booker prize winner prefers driving a bus" ''The Telegraph'', 11 August 2009. Between 1979 and 1986 he built high-tensile fences for a living. In 1986 Mills moved to London and became a bus driver, which continues to be his full-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Walker
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Jennie may refer to: * Jennie (singer), South Korean singer of girl group Blackpink * Jennie, a female given name, variant spelling of Jenny * ''Jennie'' (musical), 1963 Broadway production * ''Jennie'' (novel), 1994 science fiction thriller by Douglas Preston * ''Jennie'' (film), a 1940 American drama film * Jennie, Georgia, a community in the United States See also * Jenni * Jenny (other) Jenny may refer to: * Jenny (given name), a popular feminine name and list of real and fictional people * Jenny (surname), a family name Animals * Jenny (donkey), a female donkey * Jenny (gorilla), the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reina James
Reina James (born 1947) is a British author, singer and actress. . She has written two novels, the first of which won the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize in 2007. Early life James was born in 1947, shortly after her parents moved to the UK from South Africa. Her father was the actor Sid James. During her teenage years she played in a folk group before marrying and starting a family. In her late 20s she appeared in the stage play '' John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert'' by Willy Russell, and later appeared in Russell's musical '' Blood Brothers''. Writing career Having worked since the 1980s as an astrological counsellor, James published her first novel, ''This Time of Dying'' in 2007, which won the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of ''The Political Quarterly'' but had also written a novel which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pouncey
Peter R. Pouncey (born October 1, 1937) is an English author, classicist, and former president of Amherst College. Biography The son of a British father and a French-British mother, he was born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, his family reassembled in England. Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools and at Oxford. For a time, he studied for the Jesuit priesthood but ultimately experienced a loss of faith. Shortly after obtaining a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1969, he was appointed assistant professor of Greek and Latin in the Classics Department. In 1972, he became Dean of Columbia College. As Dean, he was a forceful advocate of coeducation, going so far as to hold a faculty vote without the knowledge of the university's president, William McGill. McGill rejected the proposal, due to concerns about the future of Barnard College. In 1976, Pouncey resigned as Dean., pages 527–528. As a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Jones (Welsh Writer)
Lloyd Jones (born 14 July 1951) is a poet, novelist and photographer. In 2002 he became the first person to walk completely around Wales, a journey of a thousand miles. Born at Bryn Clochydd, Gwytherin, near Llanrwst, he lives at Abergwyngregyn and has formerly worked on a farm and as a newspaper editor, a lecturer and a mencap nurse. He writes in both Welsh and English. After almost dying from alcoholism he gave up drinking on 28 December 2001. He is a graduate of Bangor University, with a degree in Welsh and English literature. He has published the following books: * ''Mr Vogel'' (Seren, 2004), which was based partly on Jones' walk around Wales. It won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. * ''Mr Cassini'' (Seren, 2006), which was partially inspired by his walking across Wales in seven different directions. It won the Wales Book of the Year The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story " The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Haddon and ''The Curious Incident'' won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children. The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who is described as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's blurb refers to Asperger syndrome (which today would be described as an autism spectrum disorder), high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. In July 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work. Life, work and studies In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award—in the Novels rather than Children's Books category—for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Best First Book category, as ''The Curious Incident'' was considered his first book written for adults; he also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of children's writers. The book was furthermore long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. ''The Curious Incident'' is written from the perspective of an autistic 15-year-old boy, Christopher John Francis Boone. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crow Lake (novel)
''Crow Lake'' is a 2002 first novel written by Canadian author Mary Lawson. It won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in the same year and won the McKitterick Prize in 2003. It is set in a small farming community in Northern Ontario, the Crow Lake of the title, and centres on the Morrison family (Kate the narrator, her younger sister Bo and older brothers Matt and Luke) and the events following the death of their parents. Kate's childhood story of the first year after their parents' death is intertwined with the story of Kate as an adult, now a successful young academic and planning a future with her partner, Daniel, but haunted by the events of the past. In among the narratives are set cameos of rural life in Northern Ontario, and of the farming families of the region. Plot The death of their parents, when Kate is 7 years old, Bo a toddler, and her brothers in their late teens, threatens the family with dispersal and seems to spell the end of their parents' dream that they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Lawson (novelist)
Mary Lawson (born 1946) is a Canadian novelist. Biography Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario, and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of ''Anne of Green Gables''. Her father worked as a research chemist. With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist. She married a British psychologist, Richard Mobbs. Lawson spent her summers in the north, and the landscape inspired her to use Northern Ontario as her settings for both her novels.Fulford, Robert. "Author uncovers a remote possibility: Lawson Reinvents rural literature for a new century." ''National Post''. 13 February 2007: Print. Lawson later admitted that Muskoka, where she spent her summers, "isn't and never was the North", but the area now called Cottage Country "felt like it" to people from the south. She has two grown-up sons and lives in Kingston-Upon-Thames. In a book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Death Of Vishnu
''The Death of Vishnu'' (2001) is a novel by Indian-American writer Manil Suri. The book is about the spiritual journey of a dying man named Vishnu living on a landing of a Bombay apartment building, as well as the lives of the residents living in the building. Awards and honors *2001 Booker Prize, longlist *2001 Kiriyama Prize, finalist (fiction) *2002 McKitterick Prize, winner *2002 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, co-winner *2002 PEN/Faulkner Award, nominee *2002 ALA Notable Books for Adults *2002 Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U. ..., winner 2001 American novels American philosophical novels Novels set in Mumbai W. W. Norton & Company books {{2000s-philos-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manil Suri
Manil Suri (born July 1959) is an Indian-American mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods. His first novel, '' The Death of Vishnu'' (2001), which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year. Since then, he has published two more novels, ''The Age of Shiva'' (2008) and ''The City of Devi'' (2013), completing the trilogy. Biography Suri was born in Bombay, the son of R.L. Suri, a Bollywood music director, and Prem Suri, a schoolteacher. He attended the University of Bombay before moving to the United States, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983, and became a mathematics professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Suri began writing short stories in the 1980s during his spare time, but none were published. In 1995 he began writing ''The Death of Vishnu'', a novel about social and religio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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