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Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | |
Occupation | Margaret Atwood | Later, in 1982-3, MA
was President of the Writers' Union of Canada
. She was President of the Canadian branch of PEN International
in 1984-6. She became a Vice-President of Pen International on 11 July... |
Occupation | Jane Gardam | In 1951 she took a job with the Red Cross
, working as a travelling librarian visiting and servicing hospital libraries. She then moved into journalism, becoming a sub-editor on Weldon Ladies Journal in 1952... |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | NB
sat on various literary committees: PEN International
, the Society of Authors
, and the Royal Society of Literature
. She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
, following in... |
Occupation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Having, as a member from its early years of the P. E. N. Club
(later PEN International), supported writers persecuted for their opinions, GHS
began in the 1930s to work for refugees from Nazi
Germany... |
Occupation | E. H. Young | Before the First World War EHY
was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors
during the... |
politics | Joanna Cannan | JC
belonged to the English Centre of International PEN
, the worldwide association of writers. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 191 |
politics | Marghanita Laski | ML
belonged to the Women's Press Club
of London and to PEN
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
politics | Lettice Cooper | LC
was president of International PEN
, having already served first on the executive committee and then as chair of English PEN
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
politics | Anita Desai | She is a member of PEN International
, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4563 (14 September 1990): 972 |
politics | John Galsworthy | JG
was active in progressive social and political causes such as prison reform, and served as first president of the P. E. N. Club
(later PEN International). |
politics | Harold Pinter | As to international politics, Pinter spoke out against the forcible, USA-backed ousting of President Salvador Allende
of Chile in September 1973. Like his second wife, he was a strong supporter of PEN International
. The... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties
(whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International
. Even... |
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