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

GG has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings , Jeslyn Medoff and Melinda Sansone ), Kissing the Rod, has played an...

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

MG thanks many individuals and institutions (including the British Council ) for enabling her to amass considerable first-hand experience of Uganda in order to write this book. She contributed an article, A different view...

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).

She has also held an academic appointment in Sydney, Australia, and travelled for research purposes to Chamonix in the French Alps, to the Pyrenees, and to opera performances in Germany. In...

Judith Kazantzis praised the poems in this collection as [f]ine, spare yet fluent, occasionally redblooded, exuberant with assured depictions of bleak blowy landscapes which are nevertheless beautiful. This collection won the Alice Hunt Bartlett...

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

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...

Her travels include trips undertaken for the British Council , to Singapore to be writer in residence (1993) and to Tromsø in Norway.

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.

BE and Maggie Gee jointly edited NW15: The Anthology of New Writing Volume 15 (in a series whose titles have seen several changes), published through Granta and the British Council .

HD visited Berlin on a poetry-reading tour by Bloodaxe Books authors, sponsored by the British Council .

Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...

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...