The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is an English medieval historian. She is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge.
Helen Dunmore FRSL was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
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. In 2020 membership stood at over 12,000. The SoA is a member of the European Writers' Council.
The Restraint of Beasts is a tragicomic debut novel, written by Magnus Mills. In it, an anonymous narrator "the foreman" works for a Scottish fencing company, run by Donald who is consumed by work and the desire for "efficiency". The narrator is promoted to foreman and put in charge of Tam and Richie who prefer a laissez-faire approach to work and so are at odds with both their management and their new foreman.
Simon Mawer is a British author who lives in Italy.
Wayne Sharrocks is an English author of psychological thrillers. He was born in Camden, London and had a career in animal welfare after university. In 2005 he secured a 3 book publishing contract with Pegasus Books. He started to write novels whilst living in Blo Norton on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. His first book Redemption published in 2006 was nominated for both the McKitterick Prize and Guardian First Book Award. His second, Dominion was published in 2007, with Kismet on worldwide release in 2010.
24 for 3 is a 2007 novella by Jennie Walker ; it won the 2008 McKitterick Prize. and was selected by Karl Miller of the Times Literary Supplement as one of his books of the year in 2008.
Reina James is a British author, singer and actress..
Eli Gottlieb is an American author. His first novel, The Boy Who Went Away, was published by St. Martin's Press, in 1997. The novel debuted to widespread critical acclaim and earned Gottlieb the Rome Prize and the McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors in 1998.
Alison Moore is an English writer. Born in Manchester, she lives in Leicestershire. She is an honorary lecturer in the School of English at the University of Nottingham.
J. David Simons is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. He was educated at Hutchesons' Boys Grammar School and graduated with a law degree from Glasgow University in 1973. He has been a partner with an Edinburgh law firm, a cotton farmer on Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ichud in Israel, a charity administrator for the Cyrenians in West London, a university lecturer at Keio University, Japan, and a journalist for multi-national publishing house Informa.
The Boy Who Went Away is a 1997 debut novel by Eli Gottlieb, it won the Rome Prize, the McKitterick Prize in 1998, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It has been identified as one of the best novels of the 1990s.
Zennor in Darkness was the debut novel from English author Helen Dunmore, published in 1993. It won the 1994 McKitterick Prize which is awarded for debut novels for writers over 40. Until that point, Dunmore was primarily a poet though she had published short stories and books for children. As a result of winning the prize, Penguin offered her a two-book deal and fiction became her focus.
Nick Coleman is a British writer.
Claire Adam is a Trinidadian author whose first novel Golden Child triggered critical acclaim.
The novel The Letter Bearer was critically acclaimed when it was published in 2014.
Sara Collins is a Jamaican-born Caymanian-British novelist and former lawyer. She earned a Costa Book Award for her 2019 historical fiction novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton.
Jacqueline Crooks is a British writer whose debut novel, Fire Rush, was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. She was described as one of the '10 best new novelists for 2023' by the The Observer.
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