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  Poetry workshop | Guardian Unlimited Books
His awards include a Cholmondeley award and an Arts Council Writers' award and he has held residencies at the University of East Anglia, the South Bank Centre, and the National Library for the Blind.
She has won many awards for her poetry, and is the editor of Poetry Review.
Carol Rumens is the author of 14 collections of poems, has received the Cholmondeley Award and the Prudence Farmer Prize, and is professor in creative writing at the University of Wales.
books.guardian.co.uk /poetryworkshop   (984 words)

  
 Seamus Heaney Wins Truman Capote Award For Literary Criticism - University News Service - The University of Iowa
The $50,000 Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Past winners of the Capote Award have been British scholar P.N. Fairbank, Helen Vendler of Harvard University, John Felstiner of Stanford University, John Kerrigan of Cambridge University, pianist/scholar Charles Rosen of the University of Chicago, Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher of Harvard University, Malcolm Bowie of Oxford University and Declan Kiberd of University College, Dublin.
Newton Arvin, in whose memory the award was established, was one of the critics Capote admired.
www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2003/may/050803heaney-capote-award.html   (723 words)

  
 An award winning country Inn with bed and breakfast. The Cholmondeley Arms offers food and accomodation. Situated in ...
A Village School until 1982, the Cholmondeley Arms was elegantly converted in 1988 into one of the truly exceptional pubs in the country.
Set in quiet Cheshire countryside adjacent to the Parks and Gardens of the historic Cholmondeley Castle, the Cholmondeley Arms has justifiably been consistently voted as one of the countries truly great pubs of the Millennium.
The Cholmondeley Arms offers award winning homemade food as well as superbly comfortable accommodation, all situated in the peaceful environment of South Cheshire.
www.cholmondeleyarms.co.uk   (253 words)

  
 Society of Authors Literature Awards
Awarded for a first novel in English, published in the UK, by an author over the age of 60.
All awards for published books are for books first published in the UK, and not published elsewhere.
For further information on any of the grants or awards please contact Dorothy Sym at the Society.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /society_of_authors.htm   (402 words)

  
 Allen Curnow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Timuaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University College and Auckland University College, going on to teach English at Auckland from 1951 to 1976.
New Zealand Book Award for Poetry; 1958, 1963, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1987, 2001
Cholmondeley Award, 1992 (other winners that year: Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy and Roger Woddis)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allen_Curnow   (272 words)

  
 Untitled Document
This volume earned him the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award in 1967, the Somerset Maugham Award in 1968, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, also in 1968.
In 1982 he won the Bennett Award, and Queen's University in Belfast conferred on him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
During that year he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, and Open University awarded him an honorary degree.
www.msu.edu /~willi803/heaneybiography.html   (1903 words)

  
 Carol Ann Duffy.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
· She was awarded the OBE award in 1995.
December 2001, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature.
She was awarded a grant of £75000 over a five-year period in October 2000 by the National Lottery.
www.studentcentral.co.uk /carol_ann_duffy_7256   (427 words)

  
 Irish Post: Printer Friendly Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It also won him the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Others on the mantlepiece include the Denis Devlin Award and the Writer in Residence Award from the American Irish Foundation, the EM Forster Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, and the Bennett Award.
Now in its seventh year, the Irish PEN/AT Cross Literary Award is given to a writer to mark his or her lifetime’s literary achievements.
www.irishpost.co.uk /email/printer.asp?j=1643   (233 words)

  
 Contributors
In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude award for light verse.
He is an international ambassador for poetry and was awarded an OBE in 1997 and a CBE in 2004.
Among Pavic's many awards are a nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature.
www.wordcircuits.com /gallery/contributors.htm   (1161 words)

  
 Department of English Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Her collection The Handless Maiden won the Heinemann Award and was shortlisted for the Forward prize for best collection of the year.
She has won the Arvon international poetry prize and the Forward Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Cholmondeley Award.
She writes in English and Scots and has won numerous awards for her poetry which is marked by precision, grace and —especially in her Scots verse— all the energy and humour that is associated with the North East Doric voice.
www.english.stir.ac.uk /news/poetry.htm   (421 words)

  
 Cholmondeley Castle Gardens (Cheshire) - © Gardens-Guide.com - OPEN GARDENS UK & Ireland - Features, ...
Cholmondeley is a vast garden in a romantic and beautiful setting with splendid views of the Gothic castle.
The centrepiece of the garden is undoubtedly The Temple Garden in which visitors can admire a small lake with its giant Koi carp, a rockery, a waterfall and The Temple, a beautiful piece of architecture taken from the gardens of the Old Hall, the home of the family before the Civil War.
Although the Cholmondeley family has lived at Cholmondeley since the 12th Century, it is the present Lady Cholmondeley who has had the most impact on the gardens.
www.gardens-guide.com /gardenpages/_0415.htm   (420 words)

  
 Brian Patten - Children's Poetry Archive
All three poets were given the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001.
Patten is also an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moore's University, and has received awards including an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Council award, and a Cholmondeley Award.
As he says of 'A Small Dragon', "Sometimes poems that were never intended for children get adopted by them" - and the mournful excuses of 'Mr Ifonly' will strike a chord with almost anyone.
www.poetryarchive.org /childrensarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=5911   (439 words)

  
 Carol Ann Duffy Biography
Her papers were acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University in 1999, and in October 2000 she was awarded a grant of £75,000 over a five-year period by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.
She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1984 and a Cholmondeley Award in 1992 from the Society of Authors, the Dylan Thomas Award from the Poetry Society in 1989 and a Lannan Literary Award from the Lannan Foundation (USA) in 1995.
She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.
www.famouspoetsandpoems.com /poets/carol_ann_duffy/biography   (345 words)

  
 Jenny Joseph
Her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for Season (Scorpion Press 1960) won her a Gregory Award and she won a Cholmondeley Award for her second collection, Rose in the Afternoon (Dent 1974).
Her best-known poem Warning was voted the Nations's Favorite Poem in a BBC poll in 1996 and is anthologized worldwide.
In 1996 she was awarded an Arts Council Travelling Scholarship which enabled her to spend time in Austria and Eastern Europe, exploring her interest in translation.
www.wheniamanoldwoman.com /pages/348545   (512 words)

  
 Charles Causley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As well as poetry and plays and short stories he also wrote opera librettos.
In 1958 Causley was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1986.
Other awards include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and a Cholmondeley Award in 1971.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Causley   (430 words)

  
 The Poetry Education Trust presents The Third Wellington International Poetry Festival 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From 1998-2001 she was the Assistant Director of the Subverse: Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane and coordinated The Arts Queensland Award for Unpublished Poetry.
In 1998 he was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry by the University of Newcastle.
He was awarded the residency of Writer in Residence at Massey University.
www.poetryfestival.org.nz /2004Poets.htm   (3706 words)

  
 The Octagon Theatre - University Of Bolton Poetry & Prose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Her first novel, Trumpet, published in 1998, was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In June 2004, she was chosen for the Next Generation poetry promotion as one of the best twenty poets to emerge in the last ten years and Penguin will shortly be publishing her Selected Poems.
She has won several awards for her poetry, which is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.
www.octagonbolton.co.uk /PoetryProse.htm   (2790 words)

  
 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Judges 2002 - Dionne Brand
Creeley was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999 and served as New York State Laureate from 1989 to 1991.
Among his other honors were the Frost Medal, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Shelley Memorial Award, grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
He has also won the Cholmondeley Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1994, he was one of the twenty young poets selected for the “New Generation Poets” promotion.
www.griffinpoetryprize.com /judges_2002.php   (642 words)

  
 The University of Tulsa >> News/Events/Publications
His first poetry volume, “Death of a Naturalist,” won four major literary awards: the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
In a distinguished academic career marked by the publication of three scholarly books and a continuous stream of articles and essays, O’Brien was also honored with a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, Mellon Foundation Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1999 O’Brien was posthumously awarded the Religious Communicators Council’s Wilbur Award for “The Hidden Pope,” an account of the lifelong friendship between Pope John Paul II and Jerzy Kluger, a Jewish man who grew up with the future pontiff in the small Polish village of Wadowice.
www.utulsa.edu /news/article.asp?Key=555   (666 words)

  
 The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
The Society of Authors presents the Cholmondeley Awards for Poetry.
Given to four poets, the awards (£8,000 in 1999) were endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966.
She has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Stirling, Edinburgh and Dundee, and is a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
www.bookawards.bizland.com /cholmondeley_awards.htm   (680 words)

  
 Lannan Foundation - Peter Reading History and Audio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was Writer in Residence at Sunderland Polytechnic (1981-83) and he won a Cholmondeley Award in 1978.
Stet (1986) won the Whitbread Poetry Award and he was awarded a Lannan Award for Poetry in 1990.
The judges explained their decision in these words: “The judges’ decision is that the Award should go to Peter Reading for poems in his collection, Diplopic.
www.lannan.org /lf/lit/peter-reading/peter-reading-history-and-audio   (1779 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS
She received the Hawthornden and Cholmondeley Awards in 1994, and her collection, Sugar-Paper Blue (Bloodaxe, 1997) was shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Award.
In 1990, she received a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, and was given an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester.
Jeanne Macdonald was awarded her MA, Writing Poetry, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003.
homepage.ntlworld.com /su_bainbridge/bookofhope1.html   (6421 words)

  
 Irish Literary Collections Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This collection earned him the Eric Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
In 1982 he won the Bennett Award and Queens University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.
In the fall of that year, Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
irishliterature.library.emory.edu /section-content-heaney653_d10e1   (756 words)

  
 Bloomsbury.com - Bookshop - HMS Glasshouse
Born in London in 1952, Sean O'Brien is one of Britain's most vital young poets.
Winner of several prestigious literary awards, including an Eric Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Cholmondeley Award, his poems are angry, political, and painful, but never become merely denunciatory thanks to his mastery of energetic rhythms and formal syntax.
As this collection - his third - shows, he also has an eye for the eccentric and a gift for parody.;This book is intended for usual poetry readership, libraries, etc; other poets; Students, undergraduates, Sixth formers.
www.bloomsbury.com /BookCatalog/ProductItem.asp?S=&sku=824639&EmailMe=   (92 words)

  
 Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2006
In recent years he has written four prose books: Last Night’s Fun, a book about traditional music; The Star Factory, a memoir of Belfast; Fishing for Amber: A Long Story; and Shamrock Tea, a novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
His translation of Dante’s Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and in 2003 he was made an honorary member of the Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association.
In addition to the awards mentioned above, Ciaran Carson has also been awarded the Butler Literary Award for Poetry by the Irish-American Cultural Institute (2000); and a Cholmondeley Award by the Society of Authors (2003).
www.newwritersawards.ie /judges/jd1.htm   (498 words)

  
 Press release: New Vice Presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, the Forward Prize and a Lannan Award.
He has written for and presented programmes on BBC Radio including ‘Poetry Please’ and ‘Home Truths’ and was awarded an OBE in 1997.
He has won an Eric Gregory Award and a PEN Translation Prize and his poem ‘Human Beings’ was recently voted Poem for Space on National Poetry Day.
www.poetrysociety.org.uk /press/vps2006.htm   (816 words)

  
 The Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Some of his more popular solo albums are "Graceland" and "The Rythm of the Saints." He has won 12 Grammy Awards, The Dove Award and an Emmy.
Another honor he received was being the recipient of the Frederick D.
Patterson Award from the United Negro College Fund.
members.aol.com /Pretybelle/authors.html   (143 words)

  
 The Burial at Thebes: Seamus Heaney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although himself a Catholic, he has written about Northern Island’s conflict from the perspectives of the Protestant and the Catholic, the political and the personal.
Heralded as one of the most popular poets currently writing in English, Heaney has published more than a dozen books of poetry, beginning with Eleven Poems in 1965 and Death of a Naturalist in 1966, which earned him the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Famer Memorial Prize.
He has also been the recipient of several honorary degrees: he is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and a Foreign Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.skidmore.edu /fye/bat/Heaney.html   (460 words)

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