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In late 1951 she wrote a booklet for the British CouncilWriters and their Work series on Ivy Compton-Burnett , who was only just beginning to attract attention among those interested in the craft of...

Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...

BE and Maggie Gee jointly edited NW15: The Anthology of New Writing Volume 15 (in a series whose titles have seen several changes), published through Granta and the British Council .

Her author statement for the British Council website says that poetry is a conversation—with my parents, with myself, with the living, with the dead, with friends, with strangers, and perhaps with words themselves.

She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...

EB published English Novelists, one in a series of literary guides issued by the British Council .

Meanwhile in 1993 MW produced for the British Council a slim volume entitled Drama Today: A Critical Guide to British Drama, 1970-1990.

This discusses Murdoch's first eight novels. An enlarged Vintage paperback reprint of about thirty years later, entitled Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, adds ASB 's later writings on Murdoch: essays...

The British Council website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the...

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

The Muirs' stay in Italy ended abruptly and sooner than they would have liked when the British government withdrew its funding to the British Council for European branches of the British Institute .

During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...

PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain

This novel won the British Council Darwin Now award.