British Council

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

It was published by Longmans, Green for the British Council and the National Book League .

She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (having previously been Visiting Fellow...

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

On invitation from the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what...

Working again through the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis lectured on Austen , Eliot , and Yeats in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna.

EF 's introduction to Russian literature, which set her seriously reading and then translating Russian authors, significantly influenced her thinking. Since 1972 she has earned her living as a writer. She has lectured for...

The first film she directed was The English Inn, 1941, described on the British Film Institute website as a typical Verity propaganda short produced for the British Council . After this came a setback....

She began at the Royal College by lecturing one day a week for £515 a year. She also lectured abroad for the British Council , and taught philosophy part-time at University College, London.

She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall , who was setting out...

In the 1950s, UM struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf , but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...

Jules Smith has written on the British Council 's website on contemporary writers: Like her poetry, Fainlight's fiction is precisely observed, often poignant, full of passions below its intellectual surface, and at times genuinely disturbing.

The TLS reviewer, Ruth Scurr , used as yardstick for this novel Kipling 's writings about his parallel childhood trauma and experience of evil (related in the story Baa Baa Black Sheep).

The British Council website on contemporary authors sees AF 's poetry as an influence on that of Kathleen Jamie and perhaps Kate Clanchy .

In 2004 she conducted a creative workshop in Karachi for the five winners of a national writing competition sponsored by the British Council in Pakistan for the I Belong International Story Chain project. Among these...