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Reception | Helen Oyeyemi | In addition to awards for specific texts, Oyeyemi was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists; she has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
; and she was selected as... |
Reception | Anita Desai | Many critics agree that AD
is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
Reception | Ruth Pitter | RP
received more recognition during her lifetime from the bestowers of literary awards and from fellow-writers than from the critics. In 1955 she became the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry... |
Reception | Enid Bagnold | EB
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1970, and awarded a CBE in 1976, at the same time as Iris Murdoch
. Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press. 10 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | BP
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Reception | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. St James Press. 64 |
Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Reception | Maureen Duffy | Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1985. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. The Author. Alexander P. Watt. Autumn 1999: 96 |
Reception | P. D. James | 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 |
Reception | Barbara Pym | According to her literary executor, Hazel Holt
, the sudden demand for Pym's books was due in part to publicity, but also to a slow change in the literary climate and to a loyal contingent... |
Reception | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 139 |
Reception | Kathleen Raine | KR
declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature
to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch
and Anthony Burgess
. Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25. 25 |
Reception | Sybille Bedford | SB
was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint
press of New... |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | 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... |
Reception | Stella Benson | After the publication of Tobit Transplanted, SB
was hurt when the book was not carried by the bookshops in Hong Kong (where she and her husband were now living). She articulated what she saw... |
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