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Reception | Muriel Spark | MS
received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des... |
Publishing | Margaret Atwood | It was also issued in a limited, boxed edition (150 copies) with Atwood's own artwork, for the benefit of PEN International
. Smith, Caitlin. PEN Canada Members’ Bulletin. |
Author summary | John Galsworthy | JG
was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since... |
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 | 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... |
politics | Margaret Atwood | MA
has taken an increasingly prominent role in shaping opinion on urgent questions confronting Canadians and others living with the new global economy. In articles, lectures, and interviews she has examined environmental issues, nationalism, governance... |
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 | May Sinclair | MS
attended the founding meeting in Soho of the P.E.N. Club
, which became the well-known and influential writers' organization PEN
International. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 133 |
politics | Violet Hunt | During the summer and autumn of 1921, VH
helped her friend and colleague C. A. Sappho Dawson Scott
with the establishment of the P.E.N. Club
(later PEN International
), originally a writers' association designed to... |
politics | Storm Jameson | Jameson described the 1933 Labour
Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money... |
politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
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