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E.M. Forster Award
The E. M. Forster Award is a $20,000 award given annually to an Irish or British writer to fund a period of travel in the United States. The award, named after the English novelist E. M. Forster, is administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Academy members nominate authors and...
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| 2008 | John Lanchester |
John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in the Far East and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford. Lanchester...
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| 2007 | Jez Butterworth |
Jeremy “Jez” Butterworth (born March 1969) is an English dramatist and film director.
Butterworth was born in London, England, and attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St. Albans and St. John's College, Cambridge University. His brother Steve is a...
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| 2006 | Geoff Dyer |
Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958) is a British author. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he lives in London. He is best known as the author of But Beautiful, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been called (by Keith Jarrett, for...
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| 2005 | Dennis O'Driscoll | |||||
| 2004 | Robin Robertson |
Robin Robertson is a Scottish poet.
Originally from Scone in Perthshire, Robertson now lives and works in London.
Robertson's poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and is represented in many...
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| 2003 | Andrew O'Hagan |
Andrew O'Hagan (born 1968) is a Scottish writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists.
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in...
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| 2002 | Helen Simpson |
Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford...
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| 2001 | Marina Carr |
Marina Carr (born 1964) is an Irish playwright.
Born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College Dublin. She served as Heimbold Professor...
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| 2000 | Carol Ann Duffy |
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Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955 in Glasgow) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009. She is the...
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| 1999 | Nick Hornby |
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Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and for the football (soccer) memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sports, and the both aimless...
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| 1998 | Kate Atkinson |
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Kate Atkinson (born 1951) is an English author.
She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. During her final year of this course, she was married for the first time. The...
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| 1997 | Glyn Maxwell |
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Glyn Maxwell (born in 1962) is a British poet.
Maxwell's parents are Welsh (his mother acted in the premiere of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood both in the West End and on Broadway) but he was born and grew up in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire....
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| 1996 | Jim Crace |
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James "Jim" Crace (born 1 March 1946) is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife. They have two children, Thomas...
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| 1995 | Colm Tóibín |
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Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 1955) is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist and critic.
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy Co. Wexford in the southeast of Ireland in 1955. He was the second youngest of five...
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| 1994 | Janice Galloway |
Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her...
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| 1993 | Sean O'Brien |
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Sean O'Brien (born 19 December 1952 in London) is a British poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist, short story writer and editor. He grew up in Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990. He was appointed the Northern Arts...
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| 1992 | Timothy Mo |
Timothy Peter Mo (毛翔青) (born December 30, 1950, Hong Kong) is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. Born to a Welsh-Yorkshire mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10 before he moved to Britain, studying at St John's...
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| 1991 | Alan Hollinghurst |
Alan Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
He was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Kenneth Holinghurst (a bank manager) and his wife...
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| 1990 | Jeanette Winterson |
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Jeanette Winterson OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British novelist.
Winterson was born in Manchester and raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by adopted parents Constance and John William Winterson. On track to becoming a Pentecostal Christian...
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| 1989 | A. N. Wilson |
Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950), is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is a columnist for the Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard...
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| 1988 | Blake Morrison |
Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which...
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| 1986 | Julian Barnes |
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Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946 in Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has...
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| 1984 | Humphrey Carpenter |
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, author, and radio broadcaster.
Carpenter was born, died, and lived practically all of his life, in the city of Oxford. His father was the Rt. Rev. Harry...
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| 1982 | F. T. Prince |
Frank Templeton Prince (September 13, 1912 – August 7, 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for the 1942 poem Soldiers Bathing which has been frequently included in anthologies. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father...
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| 1979 | Bruce Chatwin |
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Bruce Charles Chatwin (13 May 1940–18 January 1989) was an English novelist and travel writer.
Chatwin was born in 1940 at his maternal grandparents' house in Dronfield, near Sheffield, England. His mother, Margharita (née Turnell), had left the...
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| 1977 | David Cook | |||||
| 1976 | Jon Stallworthy |
Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (born 18 January 1935 in London) FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and (twice) Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.
Stallworthy's parents,...
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| 1975 | Seamus Heaney |
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Séamus Heaney (pronounced /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/) (born 13 April 1939 ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin.
Heaney was born on April 13, 1939 into a family of nine...
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| 1974 | Paul Bailey |
Paul Bailey (born 16 February 1937) is a British writer.
He won a scholarship to the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1953 and worked as an actor between 1956 and 1964. He became a freelance writer in 1967.
He was appointed Literary Fellow at...
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| 1973 | Margaret Drabble |
Dame Margaret Drabble (Margaret, Lady Holroyd) DBE, (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and critic.
Drabble was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, as the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher...
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| 1972 | Frank Tuohy |
John Francis ("Frank") Tuohy, (2 May 1925 – 11 April 1999) was an English writer and academic. Born in London, he attended Stowe School and went on to read Moral Sciences and English at King's College, Cambridge. On completion of his studies, he...
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