"had caused ""irreparable damage"" to the reputation of the award. The selection of Harold Pinter for the Prize in 2005 was delayed for a couple of days, apparently due to Ahnlund's resignation, and led to renewed speculations about there being a ""political element"" in the Swedish Academy's awarding of the Prize. Although Pinter was unable to give his controversial Nobel Lecture in person because of ill health, he delivered it from a television studio on video projected on screens to an audience at the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm. His comments have been the source of much commentary and debate. The"
"the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as ""that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked her fifth on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British"
"Day. World Book Day is observed in Britain and the Crown Dependencies on the first Thursday in March annually. British recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Rudyard Kipling (1907), John Galsworthy (1932), T. S. Eliot (1948), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), William Golding (1983), V. S. Naipaul (2001), Harold Pinter (2005) Doris Lessing (2007), and Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). Literary prizes for which writers from the United Kingdom are eligible include: British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old"
"Kazuo Ishiguro Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and having won the award in 1989, for his"
"the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1958, into English. Lydia Pasternak Slater continued to live in Park Town, Oxford, until her death in 1989. As the years went by, she was increasingly able to make visits to her native Russia to visit friends and relations there, although her brother Boris was never allowed to visit his family in England. Lydia Pasternak Slater Lydia Leonidovna Pasternak (; March 8, 1902 – May 4, 1989), married name Lydia Pasternak Slater, was a Russian research chemist, poet and translator. She was born in Moscow, then the capital of the Russian Empire, the daughter"
"Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; ; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna. Canetti moved to England in 1938 after the Anschluss to escape Nazi persecution. He became a British citizen in 1952. He is known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, ""for writings marked by a broad outlook, a"
"Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including ""Waterland"" (1992), ""Shuttlecock"" (1993) and ""Last Orders"" (1996). His novel ""Last Orders"" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's ""As I Lay Dying"". The prize-winning ""Waterland"" is set in The Fens. A novel"
"friendship, confusing Forster with constant avowals of his love. LGBT E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists."
"Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (1954– ) was born in Japan, but his parents immigrated to Britain when he was six, and he became a British citizen as an adult. Martin Amis (1949) is one of the most prominent British novelists of the end of the 20th, beginning of the 21st century. Pat Barker (1943–) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (1948– ) is a highly regarded writer. An important cultural movement in the British theatre that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s was Kitchen sink realism (or ""kitchen sink drama""), art,"
"Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer. He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavík. His parents moved to the Laxnes farm in nearby Mosfellssveit parish when he was three. He started to read books and write stories at an early age. He"
"Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, ""The Times"" included her in a list of ""the 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In 2012, ""The Observer"" named her final novel, ""The Blue Flower"" one of ""the ten best historical novels"". Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Mary Knox at the Old Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, the daughter of Edmund Knox, later editor of ""Punch"", and Christina Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, the bishop of Lincoln, and one of the first women students at Oxford. She was"
"Nobel Prize laureates. Four authors have won the Nobel Prize for literature in the last ten years: J.M.G. Le Clézio (2008), Herta Müller (2009), Mo Yan (2012) and Alice Munro (2013). Other well-known authors they have published are: Ha Jin, Annie Proulx, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jim Crace, and Carol Shields. Eric Visser recognized that it was difficult for authors to break through internationally. He said: ‘Most editors around the world read English but not, for example, Dutch, French or Swedish so I decided to start publishing in English.’ Only 3% of all publications in the UK are translations, so World"
"E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including ""A Room with a View"" (1908), ""Howards End"" (1910) and ""A Passage to India"" (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. Forster was born into an Anglo-Irish and Welsh family at 6 Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, London NW1, in a building that no longer exists. He was the only child of Alice Clara ""Lily"" (née"
"theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue ""Krapp's Last Tape"", for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. Pinter was born on 10 October 1930, in Hackney, east London, the only child of British parents of"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the ""Theatre of the Absurd"". Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize"
"Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, ""for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of Nazi Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom. He died on 31 March 2016, aged 86, at his home in Budapest after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years. Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 9"
"Ali Smith Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as ""Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting"". Smith was born in Inverness on 24 August 1962 to Ann and Donald Smith. Her parents were working-class and she was raised in a council house in Inverness. From 1967 to 1974 she attended St. Joseph's RC Primary school, then went on to Inverness High School, leaving in 1980. She studied a joint degree in English language and literature at the University of Aberdeen from 1980 to 1985, coming first in her"
"fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells"
"P. H. Newby Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 – 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel ""Something to Answer For"" having received the inaugural award in 1969. P.H. Newby, known as Howard Newby, was born in Crowborough, Sussex on 25 June 1918 and was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School in Worcestershire, and St Paul's College of Education in Cheltenham. In October 1939 he was sent to France to serve in World War II as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His"
"Home in Oxford on Christmas Day 1960. H. W. Garrod Heathcote William Garrod ( 21 January 1878 – 25 December 1960) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. Garrod was born in Wells, Somerset, the fifth of six children of solicitor Charles William Garrod and his wife, Louisa (""née"" Ashby). He attended Bath College and Balliol College, Oxford. He received the 1900 Gaisford prize for Greek prose, and in 1901 the Newdigate Prize for an English poem. Following a first class in the Final Honour School of Literae Humaniores in the summer term of 1901, he was in October"
"Year Honours for services to literature. Ali Smith Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as ""Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting"". Smith was born in Inverness on 24 August 1962 to Ann and Donald Smith. Her parents were working-class and she was raised in a council house in Inverness. From 1967 to 1974 she attended St. Joseph's RC Primary school, then went on to Inverness High School, leaving in 1980. She studied a joint degree in English language and literature at the University of Aberdeen from 1980"
"Gerald Hanley Gerald Hanley (17 February 1916 – 7 September 1992) was a British novelist and travel writer and was born in Liverpool of Irish parents. Hanley's novels reflect his experiences of living in Africa, Burma and the Indian sub-continent, as well as his life as a soldier. His first book, ""Monsoon Victory"" was published in 1946, and his last novel, ""Noble Descents"" in 1982. Hanley, born on 17 February 1916 in Liverpool (not County Cork, Ireland, as he claimed), was the youngest of a large, Irish-Liverpudleian Catholic family. Both his working class parents were from Ireland, his father Edward"
"Patricia Duncker Patricia Marjory Duncker (born 29 June 1951) is a British novelist and academic. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of Noel Aston Duncker (1904-1973), an accountant, and Sheila Joan (née Beer) (1918-2016), a teacher, Duncker attended Bedales School in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She earned a doctorate from St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has taught at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and was Professor of Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, working with the novelists Andrew Cowan and her fellow Professor Michele Roberts. In January"
"reviewed in World Literature Today. He has two daughters from his first marriage and some years ago he moved to London to be near to his two sons, Pete and Ben, and his stepson, Daniel. George Gomori (writer) George Gomori () born 3 April 1934, is an award-winning Hungarian-born poet, writer and academic. He has lived in England since 1956, after fleeing Budapest after the Hungarian Revolution, in which he played a pivotal role. He writes poems in Hungarian, many of which have been translated into English and Polish, and other writings across all three languages. He is a regular"
"London as part of the Jaipur Literature Festival and his publishers produced a collection of his greatest works in an anthology. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zypcc?ocid=socialflow_facebook Farrukh Dhondy Farrukh Dhondy (born Poona, India, in 1944) is an Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist of Parsi descent, who resides in the United Kingdom. He is well known not only for his writing, but also for his film and TV work. Dhondy did his schooling at The Bishop's School, Pune (Poona), and obtained a BSc degree from the University of Pune in India. He won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge where he read"
"for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is"
"Blake Morrison Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs ""And When Did You Last See Your Father?"" which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the murder of James Bulger, ""As If"". Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Morrison was born in Skipton,"
"in 2011. He died at home on 6 March 2010 and is survived by his son and daughter and second wife, Mary whom he married in 1985. Kenneth Newton William Kenneth Newton (6 November 1927 – 6 March 2010) was an English doctor who treated British and foreign royalty as well as many celebrities, and after retirement wrote the acclaimed novel ""The Two Pound Tram"" (under the name William Newton) which won the 2005 Society of Authors Sagittarius Prize (for first novelists over the age of 60). He was born in Ealing, west London the son of racing driver Frank"
"Nommo Award, a year when he didn't win.Thompson is also a capable illustrator and artist. His novella ""The Murders of Molly Southbourne"" has been optioned for screen adaptation. Thompson returned to work in the UK in 1998. He left again to spend a year working in Samoa. He now works on the south coast of England. Tade Thompson Tade Thompson is a British born African psychologist who is best known for his science fiction novels. Thompson was born in London to Yoruba parents and grew up in Nigeria. His family left the United Kingdom around 1976. He studied medicine and"
"1950 on throughout the 20th century, and she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. From Nigeria a number of writers have achieved an international reputation for"
"Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as ""a national treasure"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Bainbridge on their list of ""The 10 greatest British writers since 1945"". Beryl Bainbridge was born in Liverpool and brought up in nearby Formby. Her parents"
"Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Dunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty (""née"" Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She studied English at York University, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She lived after that in Bristol. Dunmore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Some of Dunmore's children's books are included in reading schemes for use in schools. In March 2017, she published her last"