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The Society of Authors (UK) is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights (with particular attention to copyright protection and, later, the establishment of Public Lending Right). A Trade Union (Labour union) ... is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment. ...
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Copyright symbol Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. ...
A Public Lending Right program is one which pays authors for having works in public libraries. ...
Bernard Shaw was an early member who took a prominent part in action and discussions, founding the League of Dramatists in 1931 as part of the Society. The Authors' Lending and Copyright Society was also formed after much action by the Society. Multiple people share the name Bernard Shaw: George Bernard Shaw, the celebrated Irish playwright (1856 - 1950) Bernard Shaw, a journalist and longtime CNN anchorman (1940 - ) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
The Society publishes a quarterly journal, The Author. This comments on all things of interest to professional writers, including Wikipedia, which it perceives as lacking the quality and standards of a traditional encyclopaedia. In the autumn, 2006 issue, for example, editor Andrew Taylor observes that on Wikipedia, 'Jordan's implants take up as much space as the entire article on the Yi language spoken by 6.6 million Chinese.' However, suggests Taylor, rather than ignoring this particular example of popular culture authors should take the opportunity of using Wikipedia to add links to their own books and web pages: 'And of course if you don't have an entry to yourself already, you can always create one (Taylor, 2006).
Authors who may be thinking of following Taylor's suggestion should be aware that Wikipedia itself has a different viewpoint. Wikipedia's guidelines on autobiography state:
Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability. In 1958 The Translators Association (TA) was established as a specialist group within the Society of Authors. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The The Translators Association (TA) is an association representing literary translators in the United Kingdom. ...
Prizes for fiction and non fiction [1] include:
The Betty Trask Award for a first novel given by the Society of Authors to citizens of the Commonwealth under the age of 35. ...
The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ...
The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ...
The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. ...
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. ...
References
- Victor Bonham-Carter. Authors by Profession (two volumes. London, 1978, 1984.)
Taylor, A. (2006) 'Grub Street', The Author, Autumn, 205-206.
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