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Somerset Maugham Award
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 30 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given. List of winners 2020s 2022 * Stephanie Sy-Quia for ''Amnion'' (Granta, Granta Poetry) * Tice Cin for ''Keeping the House'' (And Other Stories) * Lucia Osborne-Crowley for ''My Body Keeps Your Secrets'' (Indigo Press) * Caleb Azumah Nelson for ''Open Water'' (Penguin Random House/Viking) * Maia Elsner for ''Overrun by Wild Boars'' (Flipped Eye Publishing) 2021 * Lamorna Ash for ''Dark, Salt, Clear'' (Bloomsbury Publishing) * Isabelle Baafi for ''Ripe'' (Ignition Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of British Literary Awards
This is a list of British literary awards. Literature in general *Barbellion Prize, for ill and disabled writers *Bristol Festival of Ideas#Winners of the Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas" *British Book Awards, the "Nibbies" *Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards) *Guardian First Book Award *International Rubery Book Award *Jhalak Prize *John Llewellyn Rhys Prize *Ondaatje Prize * The Orwell Prize *Saltire Society Literary Awards *Somerset Maugham Award *Warwick Prize for Writing, The Warwick Prize for Writing *Wellcome Book Prize Fiction Fiction in general *Bath Novel Award *Commonwealth Writers Prize *Dundee International Book Prize *Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize *Goldsmiths Prize *Hawthornden Prize *James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for fiction *Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize) *Rathbones Folio Prize *Republic of Consciousness Prize for small pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrou Al-Kadhi
Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics. Al-Kadhi made a cameo appearance in the 2021 Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film '' Venom: Let There Be Carnage'' as a temporary host of the title character. Early life and education Al-Kadhi was born in London to a tight-knit conservative Iraqi Muslim family. They were brought up in Dubai and Bahrain, before the family moved back to London. Al-Kadhi claims that discovering marine biology and quantum physics helped them understand their queer identity. Al-Kadhi has a twin brother. In 2006, Al-Kadhi was awarded a two-year scholarship to Eton College where they did their A-levels, then graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MPhil in the History of Art. Al-Kadhi's stage name is Glamrou. It was at the University of Cambridge that they discovered drag, organising events and becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Greengrass
Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection. Education and career Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She published a collection of short stories called ''An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It'' in 2015. ''The Independent'' described ''The Account of the Decline of the Great Auk as'' "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction." It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. In 2018, she published her first novel, called ''Sight''. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child. Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin MacInnes
Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Australia * Martin, Western Australia * Martin Place, Sydney Caribbean * Martin, Saint-Jean-du-Sud, Haiti, a village in the Sud Department of Haiti Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village in Slavonia, Croatia * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Martin (Val Poschiavo), Switzerland England * Martin, Hampshire * Martin, Kent * Martin, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, hamlet and former parish in East Lindsey district * Martin, North Kesteven, village and parish in Lincolnshire in North Kesteven district * Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire * Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire ** WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas * Martin Mill, Kent North America Canada * Rural Municipality of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Lee-Houghton
Melissa Lee-Houghton (born in 1982 in Wythenshawe) is an English poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her 2016 poetry collection, ''Sunshine,'' won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and Costa Book Award for Poetry. Biography Lee-Houghton was born in 1982 in Wythenshawe, England. Lee-Houghton began writing poetry in elementary school. As a child, she was "the victim of horrific sexual abuse" and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In 1996, at age 14, she had a prolonged hospital stay in a psychiatric ward, during which she began writing letters and poetry. Lee-Houghton has stated, "Writing helped me feel as though I was releasing some of the anguish that I’d been forced to keep to myself." Two years later, Lee-Houghton became pregnant and homeless. In 2002, she was hospitalized for a mixed affective episode and given benzodiazepine, to which she became addicted. During this time, she was unable to keep writing, though she began again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Gordon (writer)
Edmund Wyatt Gordon (born June 13, 1921) is a professor of psychology who "had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology, education and social policy and the implications of his work for the schooling of lower status youth and children of color in America". Professor Gordon's career spans professional practice, minister, clinical and counseling psychologist, research scientist, author, editor, and professor. Gordon was recognized as a preeminent scholar of African-American studies when he was awarded the 2011 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award from ''Diverse Issues in Higher Education'' magazine at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education. He cites as major influencers Herbert G. Birch, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain LeRoy Locke. Background Gordon's scholarship has focused on the development of students who were African-American, ethnic minorities, and of low socioeconomic status who triumphed over significant odds to become better achievers. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Nash
Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, ''Small Change'' (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'', (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan poetry award in 2016, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018. Biography Miriam Nash was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1985. She grew up in Scotland, and England and Wales. She won a Fulbright Scholarship to study poetry at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she obtained an MFA in 2014. Nash's pamphlet ''Small Change'' was published by Flipped eye publishing in 2013. In 2016, she was Writer-in-residence at Greenway, the holiday home of Agatha Christie. In 2017, her first full-length collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'',, was published by Bloodaxe. As a poet and arts facilitator, Nash has worked with schools, museums, mental health organisations and prisons in the UK, USA and Singapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmet (Mozley Novel)
''Elmet'' is the 2017 debut novel by Fiona Mozley. In September 2017, it was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Plot The narrator who speaks in the sections in cursive seems to be looking for somebody against a modern landscape of highways, lorries and café stopovers. We will come to realise that this is Daniel, a boy who used to live in the middle of the forest with Daddy and big sister Cathy. There is mystery about the comings and goings of the father, and why the mother is always absent. Little by little the reader comes to understand that the father works as a thug for Mr Price, who owns all the ex-controlled rent houses and flats in the area. The father is also the unbeaten winning champion in unlawful boxing matches of the area. Most of this information is conveyed by Vivien, an elderly neighbour who lives a hike away and who tries to educate Cathy and Daniel to a certain degree. While Daniel stays at her house reading, Cathy strolls around the forests. At some po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Mozley
Fiona Mozley (born 1988)''Vogue'' interview, 16 October 201Retrieved 24 May 2018./ref> is an English novelist and Medieval studies, medievalist. Her debut novel, ''Elmet (Mozley novel), Elmet'', was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker prize. Life and literature Fiona Mozley was born in 1988 in the London Borough of Hackney, and now lives in Edinburgh. She used to live in York, where she grew up and attended Fulford School. In the meantime she spent periods in London, Cambridge and Buenos Aires before moving back to York in 2013. Besides writing fiction, she is engaged on a PhD thesis at the University of York on the concept of decay in the later Middle Ages. She also works part-time in a bookshop. Mozley sees as York's most significant literature its York Mystery Plays, Mystery Plays. These along with local drama groups she views "as having influenced my own writing more significantly than any books I have read."Statement in ''The Guardian'', 27 January 201Retrieved 24 May 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour of James Brown’s Scream'' (Akashic, 2016). He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode. Chingonyi has won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. Biography Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987 and moved to the UK at the age of six. He has a BA in English literature from the University of Sheffield and an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing Chingonyi's collection, ''Kumukanda'' (Vintage Publishing, 2017) won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. ''Kumukanda'' was also shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell Stevens
Nell Stevens (born 1985) is a British writer of memoirs and fiction. She is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, where she teaches on the Warwick Writing Programme and lists her research interests as "historical fiction, autofiction, life writing, hybrid forms". Writing Stevens has published two memoirs. ''Bleaker House'' (2017) is about a period living on Bleaker Island in the South Atlantic.) ''Mrs Gaskell and Me'' (2018) draws on her own life and that of the English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865). Her first novel ''Briefly, a Delicious Life'' was published in 2022. She was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award, and has written for publications including ''The New York Times'', ''Vogue'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Guardian'' and ''Granta''. She won a 2019 Somerset Maugham Award for ''Mrs Gaskell and Me''. Stevens appeared on BBC Radio 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Power
Phoebe Power (1993) is a British poet, whose work, ''Shrines of Upper Austria'', won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Biography Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1993. She was named a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2009. She later studied at the University of Cambridge where she led the Pembroke Poetry Society. Power was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012. Power's full length poetry collection, ''Shrines of Upper Austria'' was published by Carcanet Press in 2018. She was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection for the work. The book was named one of four Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendations for 2018 and has been shortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize. The collection was inspired by the life of Power's Austrian grandmother, who married a British soldier and emigrated to England after World War II. Power lives in York. Work *—(2021), with Katrina Porteous, ''Sea Change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |