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Tom-Gallon Trust Award
The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is an annual award of £1,000 for a short story, financed by a bequest made by Nellie Tom-Gallon in memory of her brother, playwright and novelist Tom Gallon (1866–1914). The story should be traditional, not experimental, in character. The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is generously supported by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and is administered by the Society of Authors. at The Society of Authors. Previous recipients include Man Booker Prize nominee Alison MacLeod, |
Tom Gallon
Thomas Henry Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist Nellie Tom-Gallon, who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award at The . for beginning writers in memory of her brother. Biography Tom Gallon was born in , London, the son of John P. Gallon (an engineer, fitter and turner) and his wife Martha K. Gallon. Several of Tom Gallon's novels were[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Janni Howker
Janni Howker is a British writer of adult and children's fiction who has adapted her own books for the screen. She has worked across the UK running creative writing workshops for adults and children, and is involved in several arts development programmes. Life Howker was born in Cyprus to a British military family with Lancashire roots. She lives in a cottage near the "very remote" Scottish border, and several of her books are set in the region, which she calls "my inspiration". The most important may be ''Martin Farrell'', which features a boy caught in the midst of the bloody feuds of the Border Reivers. Awards ''The Nature of the Beast'' won the 1985 Whitbread Children's Book Award.(past_winners_complete_list.pdf) . Section "Whitbread Winners 1971–2005". Costa Book Awards. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dorothy K
Dorothy may refer to: *Dorothy (given name), a list of people with that name. Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Dorothy'' (TV series), 1979 American TV series * Dorothy Mills, a 2008 French movie, sometimes titled simply ''Dorothy'' *DOROTHY, a device used to study tornadoes in the movie ''Twister'' Music * Dorothy (band), a Los Angeles-based rock band * Dorothy (band), a disbanded Hungarian rock band *Dorothy, the title of an Old English dance and folk song by Seymour Smith *"Dorothy", a 2019 song by Sulli *"Dorothy", a 2016 song by Her's In other media * ''Dorothy'' (opera), a comic opera (1886) by Stephenson & Cellier * ''Dorothy'' (Chase), a 1902 painting by William Merritt Chase * ''Dorothy'' (comic book), a comic book based on the Wizard of Oz *Dorothy, a publishing project, an American publisher Places *Dorothy, Alberta, a hamlet in the Canadian province of Alberta *Dorothy, New Jersey, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Olivia Manning
Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing. Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place. Manning's youth was divided between Portsmouth and Ireland, giving her what she described as "the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere". She attended art school and moved to London, where her first serious novel, ''The Wind Changes,'' was published in 1937. In August 1939 she married R. D. Smith ("Reggie"), a British Council lecturer posted in Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently lived in Greece, Egypt, and British Mandatory Palestine as the Nazis overran Eastern Europe. Her experiences formed the basis for her be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fred Urquhart (writer)
Fred Urquhart or Frederick Burrows Urquhart (12 July 1912 – 2 December 1995) was a Scottish short story writer, novelist, editor and reviewer. He is considered Scotland's leading short story writer of the 20th century. Writing in the ''Manchester Evening News'' in November 1944, George Orwell praised Urquhart's "remarkable gift for constructing neat stories with convincing dialogue." Early life Urquhart was born in Edinburgh. His father was chauffeur to wealthy Scottish families, including the Marquess of Breadalbane at Taymouth Castle. He spent much of his childhood in Fife, Perthshire and Wigtownshire. He attended village schools, followed by Stranraer High School and Broughton Secondary School. On leaving school at the age of fifteen, he worked in a bookshop from 1927 to 1934. Because he was a pacifist and conscientious objector, during World War II, he worked on the land at Laurencekirk in the Mearns and later at Woburn Abbey. On visits to London, where he later lived, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maurice Cranston
__NOTOC__ Maurice William Cranston (8 May 1920 – 5 November 1993) was a British philosopher, professor and author. He served for many years as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and was also known for his popular publications. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was Professor of Political Theory at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). He was born at 53 Harringay Road, HarringayF. Rosen"Cranston, Maurice William (1920–1993)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2011. and educated at South Harringay School, the University of London and St Catherine's College, Oxford.Obituary of Maurice Cranston Michael De-La-Noy. ''The Independent'', 8 Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael Morrissey (writer)
Michael James Terence Morrissey (born 1942) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, feature article writer, book reviewer and columnist. He is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, a memoir, two stage plays and four novels and he has edited five other books. Writing Michael Morrissey was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and studied law and English literature at the University of Auckland. In 1967, he was the editor of ''Craccum'', the University of Auckland student newspaper. Literary career Michael Morrissey has published five books of fiction and 13 books of poetry. Morrissey's fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals in New Zealand and other countries. His work has appeared in ''Islands,'' ''Mate'' ''Landfall'', ''Morepork'', ''Climate'', ''Poetry New Zealand'', ''Listener'', ''Pilgrims'', ''Rambling Jack'', ''Printout'', ''brief'', ''Bravado'', ''Comment'', ''Echoes'', ''Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finea, County Westmeath, he lived in County Sligo, and was described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist". Often overlooked due to his relatively low public profile, Healy's work is admired by his Irish literary predecessors, peers and successors alike, many of whom idolise him—among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne Enright. He won several literary awards, and was nominated for both the Booker Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Life Healy was born in Finea, County Westmeath, the son of a Guard. When Healy was a child, the family moved to Cavan, where he attended the local secondary school. In his late teens, he moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 shortlisted (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." Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Society Of Authors
The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. Membership of the society is open to "anyone who creates work for publication, broadcast or performance" and the society both gives individual advice and 'voices concerns' about 'authors’ rights, the publishing and creative industries and wider cultural matters.' In 2024 membership stood at 12,500.The SoA is a company on the special register body and an affiliated trade union. Members of SoA have included Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Tennyson (first president), George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Alasdair Gray, John Edward Masefield, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie and E. M. Forster. Contemporary members include Malorie Blackman, Philip Gross, and Lemn Sissay. History Foundation The SoA was established in 1884 at a time when copyright law and the idea of 'li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carys Davies
Carys Davies is a British novelist and short story writer. She has won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, the Society of Authors Olive Cook Short Story award, and the Ondaatje Prize. She has been shortlisted for The Writers' Prize and Scotland's National Book Awards and was runner-up for the McKitterick Prize. Life and education Davies was born in Llangollen, north Wales, and grew up in Newport, south Wales, and in the Midlands, England. Davies studied modern languages at St Anne's College, Oxford, and worked as a freelance journalist in New York and Chicago before moving to Lancaster, Lancashire. She currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Career Davies published her debut, a collection of short stories, ''Some New Ambush'', in 2007. It was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize and was a runner up for the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 ''An Account of the Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It''. 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'' in 2015. ''The Independent'' described the collection 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
