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Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the "greatest living poet in the English language." From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his Collected Critical Writings, and the publication of Broken Hierarchies , Hill is recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry and criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine New Verse, and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry, as well as compiling numerous anthologies, among many published works on subjects including art, travel and the countryside. Grigson exhibited in the London International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries in 1936, and in 1946 co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Grigson's autobiography The Crest on the Silver was published in 1950. At various times he was involved in teaching, journalism and broadcasting. Fiercely combative, he made many literary enemies.
Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an advisory editor of The Paris Review.
David John Taylor is a British critic, novelist and biographer, who was born and raised in Norfolk.
Donald Michael Thomas was a British poet, translator, novelist, editor, biographer and playwright. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the Cezam Prix Litteraire. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Télégramme's 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. In 2014, Entry Island won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May's books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and several million internationally.
Edgar Hilsenrath was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Although he was a naturalized United States citizen, he chose to return to Germany in 1975 where he lived until his death in 2018.
Nikita Lalwani FRSL is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales.
Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market. Based in London, it later added a literary fiction list and both a children's list and an upmarket crime list, and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles.
Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin was a Ukrainian Soviet poet and a laureat of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers.
In der Falle: Drei Essays is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 1996 by Wallstein Verlag. The book consists of essays about the autobiographical poetry of three writers, Theodor Kramer, Ruth Klüger and Inge Müller, who wrote under conditions of dictatorship.
Diana Omo Evans FRSL is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her first novel, 26a, published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers, the Betty Trask Award and the deciBel Writer of the Year award. Her third novel Ordinary People was shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature. A House for Alice was published in 2023.
Christopher Warnes is a South African academic based at the University of Cambridge. He is a University Senior Lecturer in English, a corresponding Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures at the Cambridge Centre of African Studies, and a College Lecturer in English at St. John's College. He is the author of Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence,, Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid and co-author, with Kim Anderson Sasser, of Magical Realism and Literature.
The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the historic Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and was revealed as highly abusive. A university investigation found numerous unmarked graves for unrecorded deaths and a history into the late 20th century of emotional and physical abuse of students.
Girl, Woman, Other is the eighth novel by Bernardine Evaristo. Published in 2019 by Hamish Hamilton, it follows the lives of 12 characters in the United Kingdom over the course of several decades. The book was the co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
Guy Gunaratne is a British journalist, filmmaker and novelist. Gunaratne identifies as non-binary and uses he/they/them pronouns.
Sameer Rahim is a British literary journalist and novelist. He became Managing Editor at Prospect magazine, having previously worked at the London Review of Books and at The Daily Telegraph, and his reviews of both fiction and non-fiction have featured regularly in other publications. Also an essayist, he was a winner of the William Hazlitt Essay Prize 2013 for "The Shadow of the Scroll: Reconstructing Islam's Origins". Rahim's critical writing includes pieces on V. S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Clive James and Geoffrey Hill.
Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a British novelist of Brazilian origin. She was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award, and she was also named by the Financial Times as one of “the planet’s 30 most exciting young people”. In 2023, she was named by Granta Magazine in their decennial list of best young British novelists.
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- ↑ "2019". wellcomebookprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
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- ↑ "Booker Prize 2020 longlist: where are the new male hotshot novelists?". thetimes.co.uk. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ "Dr Matthew Sperling". ucl.ac.uk. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
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- ↑ "JUDGES ANNOUNCED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING". orwellfoundation.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ↑ O’Hanlon, Karl (2016). "Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words by Matthew Sperling". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (2): 486–488. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0033. ISSN 1080-6601. S2CID 148342908.
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