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Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
The Ruth Hadden Memorial Award is a former award for the best first novel published in Britain, which was administered by the Booktrust. It was awarded in the early 1990s and has now been discontinued. The award was unusual in that the prize was awarded to a completed manuscript before acceptance by a publisher, and the prize money (in 1994, £2000) went to the publishers of the novel to spend on promoting it.Louisa Young (28 August 1994). Love thy neighbour; Books. ''The Sunday Times'', p. 8David Robson (8 November 1992). Politics, prickles and perversity. David Robson considers a political Julian Barnes and other new fiction. ''The Sunday Telegraph'', p. 80 Winners *1991: ''The Last Room'', by Elean Thomas *1992: ''Leaving the Light On'', by Catherine Merriman *1993: ''In the Place of Fallen Leaves'', by Tim Pears *1994: ''Pig (novel), Pig'', by Andrew Cowan (writer), Andrew Cowan References British literary awards First book awards Awards established in 1991 Awards disest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh language in Argentina); encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with the United Kingdom. The organisation has been called a soft power extension of UK foreign policy, as well as a tool for propaganda. The British Council is governed by a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter. It is also a Government-owned corporation, public corporation and an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Its headquarters are in Stratford, London, Stratford, London. Its chair is Paul Thompson (administrator), Paul Thompson and its chief executive is Scott McDonald. History 1930s-40s In 1934, the British Foreign Office officials created the "British Committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Disestablished In 1994
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Awards Established In 1991
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) to whom it is given to 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often awarded to an individual, a student, athlete or representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration or an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, award pin or rosette. It can also be a token object such as a certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy or plaque. The award may also be accompanied by a title of honor, and an object of direct cash value, such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s) a higher standing but is consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Book Awards
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British Literary Awards
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Andrew Cowan (writer)
Andrew Cowan (born 1960) is an English novelist and nonfiction author, who directed the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia in 2008–18. His six novels include ''Pig'' (1994). Biography Andrew Cowan was born in Corby, Northamptonshire, in 1960, and educated at Beanfield Comprehensive and the University of East Anglia (UEA). He graduated from UEA with a BA in English & American Studies in 1983 and an MA in creative writing in 1985. His teachers on the MA were Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. He was a tutor for the Arvon Foundation, and later the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at UEA for three years. He was appointed to the UEA faculty in 2004, and was the director of the UEA Creative Writing programme in 2008–18; he was promoted to a chair in 2012. He retired in 2023. He is also a potter. Writings His first novel, ''Pig'' (1994), won a Betty Trask Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Authors' Club First Novel Award, a Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pig (novel)
''Pig'', is the debut novel of English author Andrew Cowan. Published in 1994 it won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, a Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and a Scottish Council Book Award, and was shortlisted for five other awards. Plot introduction ''Pig'' is a coming-of-age story set in a bleak post-industrial English new town as told by 15 year-old narrator Danny. The eponymous pig is kept by Danny's grandparents in a run-down cottage, but when his grandmother dies and his grandfather is placed in a nursing home, Danny starts looking after the elderly pig. With his Indian girlfriend Surinder he creates a haven away from his racist neighbours and stifling family. Inspiration The book took the author six years to write and commemorated his first girlfriend and his own grandfather. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Pears
Tim Pears (born 15 November 1956) is an English novelist. His novels explore social issues as they are processed through the dynamics of family relationships. Biography Although born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, Tim Pears grew up in the village of Trusham on the edge of Dartmoor where his father was the rector. He left school at sixteen and worked in a wide variety of jobs: farm labourer, nurse in a mental hospital, painter and decorator, college night porter and many others. He also made short films, and in 1993 graduated from the Direction course at the National Film and Television School. He wrote the script for a feature film, ''Loop'', produced by Michael Riley at Sterling Pictures released in 1999. He has had several features published in the ''Observer Sport Monthly'' magazine. '' In a Land of Plenty'' was made into a ten-part drama series for the BBC by Sterling Pictures (with TalkBack Productions), broadcast in 2001. Tim Pears was Writer in Residence at Cheltenham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Motion
Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, succeeding Bill Bryson. Early life Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London, to (Andrew) Richard Michael Motion (1921-2006),''Essex Clay'', Andrew Motion, Faber and Faber, 2018, dedication page. a brewer at Ind Coope, and (Catherine) Gillian (née Bakewell; 1928–1978). Richard Motion was from a brewing dynasty; his grandfather founded Taylor Walker, but by Richard Motion's time this had been absorbed by Ind Coope. The Motion family were wealthy armigers who lived at Upton House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, and were prominent in the local area; Richard Motion's grandfather Andrew Richard Motion was a Justice of the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Place Of Fallen Leaves
''In the Place of Fallen Leaves'' is Tim Pears's debut novel, published in 1993. It won the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award in 1993 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1994. Inspiration On his website, Tim Pears reveals that the novel is set in the Devon village where he grew up (Trusham on the edge of Dartmoor) He had written many 'appalling' poems in his twenties then adapted one into a story; this liberated him and he never wrote another poem; just stories which eventually became this, his first novel. He cites his other influences as Gabriel García Márquez’s ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'', Marc Chagall’s paintings of the Russian Pale, Mikhail Sholokhov’s tales of Don Cossacks, and New Zealander Vincent Ward’s film ''Vigil''. Plot introduction It is set in the long, hot summer of 1984 in an isolated Devon village on the edge of Dartmoor where thirteen-year-old Alison is growing up, the youngest member of a farming family. The story covers scenes from Alison's own life as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Merriman
Catherine A. Merriman (born 1949) is a British novelist, short-story writer and editor who has published five novels and three short-story collections. Her work often addresses the experiences of women. Her first novel, ''Leaving the Light On'' (1992), won the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award; her other works include the novels ''Fatal Observations'' (1993) and ''State of Desire'' (1996); the short-story collections ''Silly Mothers'' (1991), shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year, and ''Getting a Life'' (2001); and the edited collection ''Laughing, Not Laughing: Women Writing on 'My Experience of Sex'' (2004), which won an Erotic Award. Born in London, she has lived in Wales since 1973, and is often considered to be a Welsh author. Biography Catherine Merriman was born in 1949Notes on the authors. ''The Second Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories'' (Alun Richards, ed.), p. 400 (Penguin; 1994). in London, England, where she spent her childhood. Her parents both worked in psychiatry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
