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Hawthornden Prize
The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award given annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of "imaginative literature" – including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction – published in the previous calendar year. The prize is for a book in English, not for a translation. Previous winners of the prize are excluded from the shortlist. Unlike other major literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize does not solicit submissions. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1945–57, 1959, 1966, 1971–73, and 1984–87). The Hawthornden Prize was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, are Britain's oldest literary awards A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award c .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Warrender
Alice Helen Warrender (16 October 1857 – 23 September 1947) was a Scottish philanthropist, who established one of Britain's earliest annual literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize, in 1919. Alice Warrender was born at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland as the eldest of six children of Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet (1825–1901) and Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, daughter of Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell, 7th Baronet. Her younger brother was the admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet. In 1919, she founded the Hawthornden Prize for a work of imaginative literature, including biography, by an English writer under the age of 41. Winners received £100 () and a silver medal.'Miss Helen Warrender', ''The Times'', 1 October 1947, p.7 Alice Warrender was a judge on the committee awarding the prize until her death. She never married, and is buried at St Martin's Church, Ruislip. References 1857 births 1947 deaths People from Midlothian Scottish philanthropists Daughters of baronets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarka The Otter
''Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a 1927 novel by English writer Henry Williamson, first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928,Stade and Karbiener (eds). ''Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, Volume 2'', 2009, p.522 and has never been out of print.Gavron, J. "Introduction" to ''Tarka the Otter'', Penguin, 2009, v (all subsequent page references refer to this edition) The novel describes the life of an otter, along with a detailed observation of its habitat in the country of the River Taw and River Torridge in north Devon (the "Two Rivers"); the name "Tarka" is said by Williamson to mean "Wandering as Water" (p. 10). Although not written for children, the book soon became popular with young readers, and also influenced literary figures as diverse as Ted Hughes and Rachel Carson. Plot summary, style The book is separated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935. Events *January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' Snow Country'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japan. *January 6 – Clifford Odets becomes the first Method-trained playwright with his first produced play, the one-act '' Waiting for Lefty'' at the former Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City. This is followed by the equally political '' Awake and Sing!'' premiered on February 19 at the city's Belasco Theatre; '' Till the Day I Die'' on March 26 at the Longacre Theatre; and '' Paradise Lost'' opening on December 9 at the same location. * March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel '' Boy''. * May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Horizon
''Lost Horizon'' is a 1933 novel by the English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, also called '' Lost Horizon'', in 1937 by the director Frank Capra and a musical remake in 1973 by the producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach. It is the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet. Plot The prologue and epilogue are narrated by a neurologist. This neurologist and a novelist friend, Rutherford, are given dinner at Tempelhof, Berlin, by their old school-friend Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy. A chance remark by a passing airman brings up the topic of Hugh Conway, a British consul in Afghanistan, who disappeared under odd circumstances. Later in the evening, Rutherford reveals to the neurologist that, after the disappearance, he discovered Conway in a French mission hospital in Chung-Kiang (probably Chongqing), China, suffering from amnesia. Conway recovered his memory, told Rutherford his stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934. Events *January 7 – The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States. *January 25 – James Joyce's novel '' Ulysses'', after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in '' United States v. One Book Called Ulysses'', is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. *January – B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' (''Die Totenschiff'', 1926) first appears in English. *February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. *February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' by the Comédie-Française, will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably '' Death on Credit'' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936) and ''Gilles'' by Pierre Drieu La Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Literature
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation to the German Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fountain (novel)
''The Fountain'' is a 1932 romantic war novel by the British author Charles Morgan. It takes place in the neutral Netherlands during the First World War and is "sometimes considered his most successful work". It was awarded the Hawthornden Prize the same year. Film adaptation In 1934 it was adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title produced by RKO Pictures RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, is an American film production and distribution company, historically one of the major film studios, "Big Five" film studios of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood's Clas .... Directed by John Cromwell.Goble p.334 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Head, Dominic (ed.) ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English''. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 1932 British novels British novels adapted into films British war novels British romance novels Novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932. Events *March – Captain W. E. Johns' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker", in the first, April, issue of ''Popular Flying'' magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, ''The Sopwith Camel, Camels Are Coming'', ensues in April. *April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday: **The Royal Shakespeare Company's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon. **The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C. *April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane, in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the ''USS Orizaba, Orizaba'' between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered. *May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism ''Scrutiny (journal), Scrutiny: a quarterly review'', edited by F. R. Leavis. *June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1931. Events *January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's ''Al Aaraaf, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems'' and first editions of ''The Scarlet Letter'' and ''Moby-Dick'' are stolen from New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold. *January 26 – The play ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs'' by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs, opens on Broadway theatre, Broadway. It is later adapted as ''Oklahoma!'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein. *March 27 – The English novelist Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after a visit to Paris, where he drank local water in an attempt to prove it was safe. *April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome. *June 1 – The ''Near v. Minnesota'' case in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconsti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1930. Events *January 6 – An early literary character-licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, giving Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works. *February – The Censorship of Publications Board begins to function in the Irish Free State. Among the first 13 books banned (announced in May) are '' Point Counter Point'' by Aldous Huxley, '' The Well of Loneliness'' by Radclyffe Hall and several on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes. *February 23 – Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'', 1929) is banned in Thuringian schools by Education Minister Wilhelm Frick. *March 19 – Paul Robeson plays the title role of ''Othello'' at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. *May 6 – The Collins Crime Club is launched as a crime fiction imprint by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1929. Events *January 10 – ''The Adventures of Tintin'' begin with the first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero in ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets)'', serialized in the children's newspaper supplement ''Le Petit Vingtième''. *February–August – Voltaire's ''Candide'' ( 1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston. *February – The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, '' The Crime at Black Dudley'' (U.S. title: ''The Black Dudley Murder''), is published in the UK. *March – Norah C. James's first novel, ''Sleeveless Errand'', is held to be obscene on publication in London, for its portrayal of the city's bohemian life. An edition appears later in Paris from Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. *April 1 – The Faber and Faber publishing company is founded in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
