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Encyclopedia > John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize. It is presented for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) from Britain or the Commonwealth written by an author under 35. Since 1987 it has been funded by the Mail on Sunday. However, the Mail on Sunday pulled out in 2003, after the 2002 prize was awarded to Mary Laven. Since then, the prize has been run by Booktrust, an independent educational charity. The winner receives £5,000, while the runners up each receive £500. The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver to commemorate her late husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who had been killed in the Second World War. A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece of work. ... The Commonwealth of Nations (CN), usually known as the Commonwealth, is a voluntary association of 53 independent sovereign states, the majority of which are former colonies of the United Kingdom. ... The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...


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1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Alun Lewis (July 1, 1915 - March 5, 1944), was a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... James Aldridge is an Australian author who was born in Swan Hill, Victoria on the Murray river. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Richard Mason ( May 16, 1919 - October 13, 1997) Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Emma Smith Emma Smith (1923 - ) is an English novelist who briefly rose to literary fame in the 1940s before fading away into obscurity. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Rachel Trickett (December 20, 1923 — June 24, 1999) was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Wiles was the second producer of the popular science fiction serial Doctor Who, succeeding Verity Lambert. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Edgar Colwell Hearne (1926, Montreal, Canada, 1994, Stony Hill, Jamaica) was a white Jamaican novelist, journalist, and teacher. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent who was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, and grew up in Jamnagar (Gujarat), Mussoorie, Dehradun, and Shimla. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... V.S.Naipauls 2005 book Literary Occasions Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British novelist of Hindu Bhumihar Brahmin heritage from Gorakhpur in Eastern U.P. and Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dan Jacobson (born March 7, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist and essayist. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... David John Caute (born 16 December 1936) is a British author, journalist and historian. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... David Benjamin Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter and award winning novelist. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Sir Robert Rhodes James (10 April 1933–1999) was a British historian and Conservative member of parliament. ... John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933) is a British writer, known as a poet and art critic, and as a curator and author of exhibition catalogues. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Several people are named Peter Marshall: Peter Marshall (game show host) is an American singer and game show host, best known as the original master of The Hollywood Squares from 1966–1981. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Nell Dunn is an English dramatist who created the plays Up the Junction, Poor Cow and Steaming, which have all been adapted into films. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Julian Mitchell (born May 1, 1935) is a British screenwriter, especially for TV. He was screenwriter for many Inspector Morse episodes. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Margaret Drabble (born June 5, 1939) is an English novelist. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Angela Carter Angela Carter (May 8, 1940[1] – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939, in Wigton, Cumberland) is a British author and broadcaster. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Angus Calder is an academic writer, historian, and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Shiva Naipaul (1945-1985), the younger brother of V.S. Naipaul was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... David Hare (born June 5, 1947) is an English dramatist and director. ... Tim Jeal (born 1945) is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Dr Richard Cork is a British art historian, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) is an English writer, known for his biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Peter Boardman (1950-1982) was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) is an English writer, known for his biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Professor Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Milne (1850 – 1913) was the English geologist and mining engineer who invented the seismograph. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tim Parks is an author who lives near Verona in Italy, who has written numerous books, the most well known of which are probably Italian Neighbours and External links Tim Parks in interview with Three Monkeys Online Categories: British non-fiction writers ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeanette Winterson (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at The Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A. L. Kennedy (full name Alison Louise Kennedy) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Matthew Kneale (born 1960) is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Jonathan Coe, born 1961 in Birmingham, is an English novelist and writer. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Nicola Barker (born Ely 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Peter Ho Davies is the 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship winner and author of The Ugliest House in the World. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... David Mitchell in Poland, Warsaw, April 7, 2006 David Mitchell (born January, 1969) is an English novelist. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet. ... Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Hari Kunzru is the British author of mixed English and Kashmiri Hindu ancestry of The Impressionist and Transmission. ... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jonathan Trigell is a British author. ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born in 1977) is a Nigerian writer. ... Rory Stewart OBE, born 1973, is a Scottish writer, born in Hong Kong and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied history and philosophy. ... Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist. ...

See also

This is a list of literary awards from around the world: // Nobel Prize in Literature Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for childrens and youth literature. ... A list of British literary awards: Booker Prize British Book Awards -- the Nibbies Commonwealth Writers Prize Duff Cooper Prize Hawthornden Prize Hessell-Tiltman Prize John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Orange Prize for Fiction Samuel Johnson Prize Somerset Maugham Award Whitbread Awards Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Bridport Prize Cholmondeley Award Eric Gregory... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

External links

  • Booktrust - John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

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Uzodinma Iweala wins John Llewellyn Rhys Prize - book2book forums (570 words)
Beasts of No Nation, published by John Murray, is the harrowing story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed African nation, who is recruited to fight a brutal civil war which ravages both his country and his own childhood.
The prize was founded over 60 years ago in honour of the writer John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed in action in World War II.
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is supported by City Inn contemporary hotels - award-winning hotels, passion for design and commitment to the arts.
Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | Plain Talk (545 words)
This prize was an initiative from the Arts Council of England which aimed at "encouraging cultural diversity.
One of these six is Benjamin Zephaniah from Rastafaria, known for having said "no" to an OBE and, at another occasion, declined an honorary degree from a British university on the premise of its association with "a blood-stained stolen empire".
He has not, however, objected to this new prize, claiming, according to Sarah Shannon in the London Independent, that "Any award that raises the profile of a struggling minority community is a good thing," adding, "I think there should be no need for an Orange Prize for women literature or a Decibel Prize.
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