Arts Council of Great Britain

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...

This won the Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition; the following year SH won an Arts Council Bursary.

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...

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

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...

LC was awarded Arts Council bursaries in 1968 and 1979, an Eric Gregory travelling scholarship in 1977, and the OBE in 1978. In 1987...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

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...

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...

She served as a Member of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1982 to 1983, and in 1986 was made a Fellow of the University of London (where she had been a lecturer since...

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...

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

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.

KG published (the same month as her book of the testimonies of child refugees) Selected Poems, which brought her both an Arts Council award and the Jewish Chronicle Book Prize.

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