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B. S. Johnson

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Bryan Stanley Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. [1]

43 relations: Alan Burns (author), Albert Angelo, Ann Quin, Baillie Gifford Prize, BFI Flipside, Birkbeck, University of London, Bookkeeping, Brian Castro, British Film Institute, British Library, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, Cult following, Eric Gregory Award, Eva Figes, House Mother Normal, James Joyce, Jonathan Coe, Karl Marx, King's College London, Laurence Sterne, Live a Little (Pernice Brothers album), London, London Consequences, Los Campesinos!, Margaret Drabble, Modernism, Nottingham, Nouveau roman, Paul Ableman, Paul Theroux, Pernice Brothers, Philip Tew, Prose, Rayner Heppenstall, Samuel Beckett, Stefan Themerson, The Unfortunates, Transatlantic Review (1959–77), V. S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris, Working class, World War II, Zulfikar Ghose.

Alan Burns (author)

Alan Burns (29 December 1929 – 23 December 2013) was an English author.

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Albert Angelo

Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933–1973).

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Ann Quin

Ann Quin (born 17 March 1936 in Brighton, Sussex – ? August 1973) was a British writer noted for her experimental style.

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Baillie Gifford Prize

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize) is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.

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BFI Flipside

BFI Flipside is a series of Dual Format Editions (DVD and Blu-ray released together) which was launched in May 2009 and is published by the British Film Institute's Video label.

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Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London (formally, Birkbeck College; informally, Birkbeck), is a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business.

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Brian Castro

Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973) is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Eva Figes

Eva Figes (15 April 1932 – 28 August 2012) was an English author.

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House Mother Normal

House Mother Normal (subtitle - "A Geriatric Comedy") is a novel by the experimental writer B.S. Johnson.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

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Live a Little (Pernice Brothers album)

Live a Little is an album by Pernice Brothers, released in 2006.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Consequences

London Consequences is a 1972 group novel written by twenty writers published for the Festivals of London that year.

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Los Campesinos!

Los Campesinos! are a seven-piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University.

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Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Nouveau roman

The Nouveau Roman (new novel) is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres.

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Paul Ableman

Paul Victor Ableman (13 June 1927 – 25 October 2006) was an English playwright and novelist.

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Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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Pernice Brothers

Pernice Brothers are an indie rock band.

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Philip Tew

Philip Tew (born Enfield, Middlesex, England) is a professor of Post-1900 Literature at Brunel University.

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Prose

Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.

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Rayner Heppenstall

John Rayner Heppenstall (27 July 1911 in Lockwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England – 23 May 1981 in Deal, Kent, England) was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.

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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.

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Stefan Themerson

Stefan Themerson (25 January 1910 – 6 September 1988) was a Polish, later British poet, novelist, filmmaker, composer and philosopher.

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The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions.

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Transatlantic Review (1959–77)

Transatlantic Review was a literary journal founded and edited by Joseph F. McCrindle in 1959, and published at first in Rome, then London and New York.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), is an Indo-Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship.

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Wilson Harris

Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zulfikar Ghose

Zulfikar Ghose (born March 13, 1935) is a novelist, poet and essayist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._S._Johnson

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