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Waterstones 11
The Waterstones 11 was a literary book prize aimed at promoting debut authors, run and curated by British bookseller Waterstones. It ran from 2011–13. The list of 11 authors are selected from a list of 100 authors submitted by publishers. The prize, established in 2011, has included Orange Prize winner Tea Obreht's novel ''The Tiger's Wife'', Man Booker Prize nominee '' Pigeon English'' by Stephen Kelman and the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction, ''The Land of Decoration'' by Grace McCleen. Winners 2011 The winners were announced on 20 January 2011 *''City of Bohane'' by Kevin Barry *''The Free World'' by David Bezmozgis *''The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages'' by Sophie Hardach *''22 Britannia Road'' by Amanda Hodgkinson https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12240422 Waterstone's unveils debut authors book list 20 January 2011, BBC, Retrieved 28 May 2016 *'' Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew'' by Shehan Karunatilaka *'' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) is a Sri Lankan writer. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. His 2010 debut novel '' Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew'' won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSC Prize, the Gratiaen Prize and was adjudged the second greatest cricket book of all time by ''Wisden''. His third novel '' The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'' (Sort of Books, 2022) was announced as the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize on 17 October 2022. Biography Shehan Karunatilaka was born in 1975 in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, and grew up in Colombo. He was educated at S. Thomas' Preparatory School, Kollupitiya, Sri Lanka, and then in New Zealand at Whanganui Collegiate School, and Massey University. He graduated in English literature, against his family's wish that he study business administration. Before publishing his debut novel in 2010, he worked in advertising at McCann, Iris and BBDO, and has also written fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Greenslade (writer)
Frances Greenslade (born 1961 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian writer. She grew up with four sisters and one brother playing among the orchards of the Niagara Peninsula. The family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, when she was ten. Greenslade earned a degree in English at the University of Winnipeg before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1992. In 2005 Frances and her family moved to Penticton, in the southern Okanagan, where her love of British Columbia's landscape flourished and was a source of inspiration in writing ''Shelter,'' her first novel.''Shelter'' by Frances Greenslade , |
Guardian First Book Award
The Guardian First Book Award was a literary award presented by ''The Guardian'' newspaper. It annually recognised one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965. The Guardian First Book Award was discontinued in 2016, with the 2015 awards being the last. History The newspaper determined to change its book award after 1998, and during that year also hired Claire Armitstead as literary editor. At the inaugural First Book Award ceremony in 1999, she said that she was informed of the change, details to be arranged, by the head of the marketing department during her second week on the job. "By the time we left the room we had decided on two key things. We would make it a first book award, and we would involve reading groups in the judging process. This was going to be the people's prize." About the opening of the prize to nonfiction she had said in August, "readers do not seg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Flanery
Patrick Denman Flanery (born 1975) is an American author and academic. he is a chair of creative writing at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. He is known for his 2012 novel, ''Absolution''. Early life and education Patrick Denman Flanery was born in 1975 in California, the son of politically liberal parents, and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He attended inner city de-segregated schools, "grew up with a consciousness of the problems of American race", and became aware of apartheid South Africa at an early age. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He worked for some years as a freelance script reader for Sony Pictures Entertainment and then as literary scout for a film production company in New York City. The job entailed reading the best contemporary fiction, with the aim of determining whether it was suitable for adapting as a feature film. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenni Fagan
Dr Jenni Fagan (born 1977) is a Scottish novelist and poet. She has written several books including fiction novel '' The Panopticon,'' screenplays and several books of poetry. She was named Scottish writer of the year 2016 by ''The Glasgow Herald''. Early life Fagan was born in 1977 and grew up in Scotland within the Scottish Local Authority care system. As a child she was adopted twice but neither placement worked out well. She spent 6 years living on a caravan park. and states while she was a child she moved 26 times. After leaving the care system Fagan was also homeless for several years, living in homeless accommodation. In 2007 she received the Dewar Arts award which enabled her to attend Norwich School of Art and Design and go on to read for a BA at University of Greenwich from which she graduated first class. She went on to study for a MA at Royal Holloway, University of London where she was taught by Andrew Motion. She completed a PhD at The University of Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Panopticon (book)
''The Panopticon'' is a novel published in 2012 by Jenni Fagan. Synopsis The novel is about a 15-year-old girl called Anais who grows up in care and is trapped by the care and criminal justice systems in the UK. However she is intelligent and imaginative, and creates a rich fantasy world, and dreams of possible other lives for herself. It has a surrealist element to the narrative. The author says that the care system acts as a metaphor for the way people conform to structures imposed on them by society and various surveillance measures. Publication ''The Panopticon'' was written by Jenni Fagan, who was herself brought up in care, when she was 34 years old, and published in 2012. Reception It was well-reviewed in several major newspapers in the UK and US, shortlisted for several awards, and translated into at least eight languages by 2019. Adaptations In October 2019, the National Theatre of Scotland staged an adaptation of the novel at the Platform in Glasgow and the Traverse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square in the centre of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. Billed as ''The largest festival of its kind in the world'', the festival hosts a concentrated flurry of cultural and political talks and debates, along with its well-established children's events programme. It coincides with the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as the other events that comprise the Edinburgh Festival. Nick Barley is the Director. History The first Book Festival took place in a tent in Edinburgh in 1983. Initially a biennial event, it began to be held annually in 1997. It is a large (225,000 visitors in 2015) and growing international event, central to Edinburgh's acclaimed August arts celebrations. Perhaps partly as a result of this, Edinburgh was named the first UNESCO City of Literature in 2004. The Festival in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Winman
Sarah Winman (born 24 December 1964 in Ilford, Essex) is a British author and actress. Biography In 2011, Winman's debut novel, ''When God Was a Rabbit'' (2011), became an international bestseller and won Winman several awards including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards. Winman's second novel, ''A Year of Marvellous Ways'' (2015), was published on 18 June 2015. Winman's third novel, ''Tin Man'', was published on 27 July 2017 and shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards. Winman's fourth novel is ''Still Life'', was published on 1 June 2021. Acting credits * ''A Quiet Conspiracy'' (1989) * ''Act of Will'' (1989) * ''Chimera'' (1991) * ''Stay Lucky'' (1991) * ''El C.I.D.'' (1992) * ''The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries'' (1993) * '' Staggered'' (1994) * ''Chandler & Co'' (1995) * ''September'' (1996) * ''Taggart'' (1998) * ''A Certain Justice'' (1998) * ''Midsomer Murders'' (1999) * ''Doctors'' (2001) * ''The Discovery of Heaven'' (2001) * ''The Forsyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When God Was A Rabbit
''When God Was a Rabbit'' is a book by Sarah Winman that was first published in 2011. It won Winman various awards including New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards and was one of the books chosen by Richard & Judy in their 2011 Summer Book Club. Synopsis ''When God Was a Rabbit'' follows the life of a young girl – Eleanor Maud (Elly for short) – as she grows up first in Essex, then Cornwall and the various characters she meets and befriends along the way. The book is named after God, a pet rabbit given to Elly by her brother who is a constant companion during her childhood. Overall it is a story about love in all its forms, surrounding the central characters, Elly, her brother and their extended circle of family and friends. Awards * New Writer of the Year in the Galaxy National Book Awards (United Kingdom), 2011 * Newton First Book Award in the Edinburgh International Book Festival (United Kingdom), 2011 * Waterstones 11 (United Kingdom), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Waheed
Mirza Waheed is a novelist who was born and raised in Srinagar but now lives in London. Writing career Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Guernica (magazine), Al Jazeera English and The New York Times. His first novel, '' The Collaborator'', was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book award. It takes place in his homeland of Kashmir, torn in conflict between India and Pakistan. Novelist Kamila Shamsie reviewed it for ''The Guardian'' and called it "gripping in its narrative drama...Waheed gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself. Away from the rhetorical posturing of India and Pakistan, he reveals, with great sensitivity and an anger that arises from compassion, what it is to live in a part of the world that is regarded by the national government as the enemy within, and by the government next door as a strategic puppet." Waheed's second novel, ''The Book of Gold Leaves'', was published in 2014. A love story between a Sunni and a Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Collaborator (Mirza Waheed Novel)
''The Collaborator'' is the 2011 debut novel by Mirza Waheed. The novel is set on the Indian side of the Line of Control that separates Indian Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir. The first-person narrator is a young man who ends up working for the Indian Army, counting the number of dead militants, killed in encounters, with the Indian army. Reception The book ''The Collaborator'' was featured in 2011 "Books of the Year" in ''The Telegraph'', ''New Statesman'', ''Business Standard'' and ''Telegraph India''. It was also 2011 Guardian First Book Award The Guardian First Book Award was a literary award presented by ''The Guardian'' newspaper. It annually recognised one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspap ... finalist and shortlisted for the 2011 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. References Novels set in India Kashmir conflict in fiction 2011 debut novels 2011 Indian novels Indian English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
