Arts Council of Great Britain

The poet Fleur Adcock has named DW ' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman edition and...

MW has given her time in many public capacities. She was a  Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint (1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families

MS exhibited her photography and mixed media work in Britain, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and North America. The public collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The City Art Centre

The prize was worth $10,000. The Council minutes described CS as a person who had not lived in Australia for forty years and whose Australian citizenship was in doubt. Nor was her contribution to...

This is a novel almost without women. The job in the title was named after George Ponsonby, a United Nations investigator in Java, who had died by accident, mowed down by an out-of-control tractor...

Between her first and second novels, the Arts Council made MR a grant (on the second application) of a thousand pounds to support her writing. This seemed to her an enormous sum; it bought...

RR published her novel The Lake of Darkness, for which the following year she was awarded an Arts Council of Great Britain National Book Award for Genre Fiction.

RR was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Following a British Arts Council Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award...

In the same year that she received a British Arts Council Bursary, RR published her novel Put on by Cunning, about investigating the identity of an imposter.

In December 1967 she had been awarded an Arts Council grant of £1,200 (along with Jean Rhys , Christina Stead , Lettice Cooper , Julia Strachey , and others) to support her writing.

ML served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher .

From the 1960s PL became a committee-man and public intellectual. He rendered service in various ways to his profession of librarianship. For the Arts Council of Great Britain he served on the literature panel, and...

This collection was a Poetry Book Society choice. It received an award from the Arts Council and brought Larkin the Queen's Medal for Poetry in June 1965.Christopher Ricks hailed PL as the best...

Commenting on her own work, SK has cited Christina Rossetti saying that in a poet, the ear dictates and the mouth listens. She adds: What fascinates me most is to discover the curious and humorous...

EJ published with a small press her earliest volume, Poems, which brought her an Arts Council award.