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Papillote Press
Polly Pattullo Hon. FRSL is a British author, journalist, editor and publisher, who co-founded in 1998 the independent publishing company Papillote Press,"Welcome to Papillote Press Papillote Press website. based in Dominica, and , England. Her writing has appeared in such publications as '''', '''', ''Caribbean Insight'', and '' |
FRSL
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] |
The Bookseller
''The Bookseller'' is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. Philip Jones is editor-in-chief of the weekly print edition of the magazine and the website. The magazine is home to the ''Bookseller''/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to the book with the oddest title. The award is organised by ''The Bookseller''s diarist, Horace Bent, and had been administered in recent years by the former deputy editor, Joel Rickett, and former charts editor, Philip Stone. ''We Love This Book'' is its quarterly sister consumer website and email newsletter. The subscription-only magazine is read by around 30,000 persons each week, in more than 90 countries, and contains the latest news from the publishing and bookselling worlds, in-depth analysis, pre-publication book previews and author interviews. It is the first publication to publish official weekly bestseller lists in the UK. It has also created the first UK-based e-book sales r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott FRSL (born in Trinidad, 1943) is a novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago, who divides his time between London and Port of Spain. He has also worked as a teacher of English and Drama at schools in London and in Trinidad. Scott's novels have been awarded (1998) and short-listed (1992, 2004) for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and thrice nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award (for ''Aelred's Sin'' in 2000, ''Night Calypso'' in 2006 and ''Light Falling on Bamboo'' in 2014). His stories have been much anthologised and he won the Tom-Gallon Short-Story Award in 1986. Life and career Born in Trinidad on a sugarcane estate where his father was the manager for Tate & Lyle, Lawrence Scott is a descendant of Trinidad's French and German creoles. "His father's side came from Germany in the 1830s and were called Schoener. His mother's family, the Lange dynasty, were French-descended and part of an established white Creole community." Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviana Prado-Núñez , butterfly
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Viviana is a female given name, and may refer to: * ''Viviana'' (film), a 1916 American film * ''Viviana'' (telenovela), a 1978 Mexican telenovela * Saint Bibiana, or Viviana, 4th-century Roman martyr * Viviana (given name) See also * * Bibiana (other), a variant of the name * Vivian (given name), a variant of the name * Vivien (other), a variant of the name * Vivienne, a variant of the name * Saint Vibiana, 3rd-century Roman martyr * Acraea viviana ''Acraea viviana'', the straw-coloured acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elma Napier
Elma Napier (née Gordon-Cumming; 23 March 1892 – 12 November 1973), also known as Elma Gibbs and by the pen-name Elizabeth Garner, Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge. ''Domnitjen magazine'', Volume 2, Issue 2. was a Scottish-born writer and politician who lived most of her life in the island of . She published several novels and memoirs based on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Nanton
Philip Nanton (born 1947) is a Vincentian writer, poet and spoken-word performer, based in Barbados. A sociologist by training, who also teaches cultural studies, he is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham, and lectures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He has been a contributor on Caribbean culture and literature to journals and magazines such as the ''Caribbean Review of Books'', ''Shibboleths: a Journal of Theory and Criticism'' and '' Caribbean Quarterly'', and as a spoken-word artist has performed his work at festivals internationally. In 2012, he represented St. Vincent & the Grenadines at Poetry Parnassus in London. Nanton's published books include ''Island Voices: From St Christopher to the Barracudas and Frontiers of the Caribbean'' (2014), ''Canouan Suite and Other Pieces'' (2016), and ''Riff: The Shake Keane Story'' (2021). Biography Born in St Vincent & the Grenadines, Philip Nanton studied and lived in England between 1960 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Honychurch
Lennox Honychurch ( ; born 27 December 1952) is Dominica's most noted historian and a politician. He is well known for writing 1975's '' The Dominica Story: A History of the Island'', the 1980s textbook series '' The Caribbean People'', and the 1991 travel book '' Dominica: Isle of Adventure''. Also an artist and a curator, he was largely responsible for compiling the exhibit information for The Dominica Museum in Roseau. Honychurch is the grandson of writer and politician Elma Napier. Biography Born in Portsmouth, Dominica, Lennox Honychurch can trace his lineage in the Caribbean back to the 1790s. Honychurch attended the St. Mary's Academy secondary school.Lisa Paravisini"Dominica Times profiles Lennox Honychurch as he wins Sabga Award" ''Repeating Islands'', 20 April 2011. After publishing several works on the history of Dominica, he was awarded the Chevening Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he gained a PhD at St. Hugh's College. He read for his MPhil and PhD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Lisa Allen-Agostini (born 1960s) is a Trinidadian journalist, editor and writer of fiction, poetry and drama. She is also a stand-up comedian, performing as "Just Lisa". Allen-Agostini has been a columnist for the ''Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'', writing both in Trinidadian Creole and in Standard English, and among other publications where her journalism appears are the ''Trinidad Express'', ''Caribbean Beat'', ''Caribbean Review of Books'', and ''Trinidad and Tobago Newsday''. She is the author of novels both for young people and adults, and her fiction and poetry have been published widely, including in '' Lightspeed'', ''Wasafiri'', ''sx salon'', ''Susumba'', ''Moko'', ''past simple'', and ''About Place Journal''. She is a contributor to the anthologies ''Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond'' (edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall, 2013) and ''New Daughters of Africa'' (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). Allen-Agostini's debut adult novel, ''The Bread the De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourism Concern
Tourism Concern was a British NGO, advocating ethical tourism through campaigning and educating the tourism industry and travelling public.It closed in September 2018. Its members and staff worked to highlight global tourism's negative impacts and potential solutions, believing that host communities should truly benefit, not suffer, from tourism development. Its web archive on www.Travindy.com and print archive held by Warwick University (see external links) document the scope of its work over thirty years. Stated aims were 'to increase understanding of the impact of tourism on environments and host communities among governments, industry, civil society and tourists; and to promote tourism development that is sustainable, just and participatory, and which is founded on a respect for human rights.' History Tourism Concern was founded in 1988 as an informal network, linking people around Britain with similar organisations elsewhere in the world. Its instigator and initial co-ordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Charles
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first female lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister. She was the second female prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucina da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles. She was the first female in the Americas to be elected in her own right as head of government. She served for the second longest period of any Dominican prime minister, and was the world's fourth longest-serving female Prime Minister, behind Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and Indira Gandhi of India. She held the record for the longest continuous tenure by any female Prime Minister, which was later broken by Sheikh Hasina. She was also described as the "Iron Lady of the Caribbean." Personal life Eugenia Charles was born on 15 May 1919, in the fishing village of Pointe Michel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – 4 February 1986) was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, '' The Orchid House'' (1953), based on her own early life, which in 1991 was turned into a Channel 4 television miniseries of the same name in the United Kingdom. Early life and family background Born in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies, in 1908, she was the daughter of Francis Byam Berkeley Shand and Elfreda (daughter of Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls), and was baptized Phyllis Byam. Her father's settler family was long established in Roseau. With roots in the West Indies going back to the 17th century, Phyllis later described herself as "a West Indian of over 300 years' standing, despite my pale face." Her earliest ancestor in the West Indies was Lieutenant General William Byam, a Royalist officer who in 1644 defended Bridgwater in Somerset against a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
