British Council

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

AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 . Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...

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...

She is a reader for the Literary Consultancy and a mentor with Crossing Borders, an on-line project run by the British Council to support African writers. She also teaches for the MA in Creative...

The first trilogy draws on OM 's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...

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...

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 .

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.

This novel won the British Council Darwin Now award.

She followed it with a brief study of Coleridge done for the British Council in 1953 (one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News), and with a critical Introduction to his selected Poems...

The book was published for the British Council and the National Book League . There were later a number of revised editions.

After her two years in London, MR spent some months of 1973-4 working in Bangkok as a librarian for the British Council . She had applied for the job on impulse, almost whimsically, and quickly...

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...