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WH Smith Literary Award

Index WH Smith Literary Award

The WH Smith Literary Award was an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith. [1]

82 relations: A People's Tragedy, A Suitable Boy, A Time of Gifts, A. N. Wilson, Alice Munro, Anthony Powell, Atonement (novel), Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Moore (novelist), Catholics (novel), Christopher Hill (historian), Cider with Rosie, Commonwealth of Nations, David Hughes (novelist), Derek Walcott, Donna Tartt, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Jennings, Ernst Gombrich, Gabriel Fielding, George Clare (writer), Ian McEwan, Isabel Colegate, J. R. Ackerley, Jean Rhys, John Fowles, Jon Stallworthy, Kathleen Raine, Krindlekrax, Last Waltz in Vienna, Laurie Lee, Leonard Woolf, Malorie Blackman, Mark Girouard, Master Georgie, Melvyn Bragg, Michèle Roberts, Nadine Gordimer, Nan Fairbrother, National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, North (poetry collection), Omeros, Open Secrets, Orlando Figes, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick White, Philip Larkin, Philip Ridley, Philip Roth, R. C. Hutchinson, ..., Republic of Ireland, Richard Powers, Robert Gittings, Robert Hughes (critic), Ronald Lewin, Seamus Heaney, Sharon Creech, Simon Schama, Tales from Ovid, Ted Hughes, Temporary Kings, The Fatal Shore, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Good Terrorist, The Human Stain, The Little Friend, The Mimic Men, The Plot Against America, The Pork Butcher, The Soldier's Return, The Time of Our Singing, Thom Gunn, Thomas Pakenham (historian), United Kingdom, United States, V. S. Naipaul, V. S. Pritchett, Vikram Seth, Voss (novel), Walk Two Moons, WHSmith, Wide Sargasso Sea. Expand index (32 more) »

A People's Tragedy

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891–1924 is an award-winning book written by British historian Orlando Figes and published in 1996.

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A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993.

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A Time of Gifts

A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor.

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A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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Atonement (novel)

Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement.

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.

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Brian Moore (novelist)

Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.

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Catholics (novel)

Catholics is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore.

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Christopher Hill (historian)

John Edward Christopher Hill (6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003) was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in 17th-century English history.

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Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee (published in the US as Edge of Day: Boyhood in the West of England, 1960).

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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David Hughes (novelist)

David Hughes (27 July 1930 – 11 April 2005) was an Anglo-Welsh novelist.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American writer, the author of the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and ''The Goldfinch'' (2013).

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

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Elizabeth Jennings

Elizabeth Jennings (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001) was an English poet.

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Ernst Gombrich

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.

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Gabriel Fielding

Gabriel Fielding (25 March 1916, Hexham, Northumberland, England – 27 November 1986, Bellevue, Washington), pen name of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, was a British novelist whose works include: In the Time of Greenbloom, The Birthday King, Through Streets Broad and Narrow and The Women of Guinea Lane.

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George Clare (writer)

George Peter Clare (né Georg Klaar) (21 December 1920 – 26 March 2009) was a British Jewish author and Holocaust survivor who wrote Last Waltz in Vienna and Berlin Days, both autobiographies.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Isabel Colegate

Isabel Diana Colegate (born 10 September 1931) is a British author and literary agent.

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J. R. Ackerley

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Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys, (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16.

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John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

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Jon Stallworthy

Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) FBA FRSL was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford.

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Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.

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Krindlekrax

Krindlekrax is a thriller children's novel by author Philip Ridley.

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Last Waltz in Vienna

Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare (21 December 1920 - 26 March 2009) was the 1982 winner of The WH Smith Literary Award.

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Laurie Lee

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf (25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.

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Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman, OBE (born 8 February 1962), is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015.

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Mark Girouard

Mark Girouard (born October 1931) is a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, an architectural historian, and biographer of James Stirling.

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Master Georgie

Master Georgie is a 1998 historical novel by English novelist Beryl Bainbridge.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Michèle Roberts

Michèle Brigitte Roberts (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Nan Fairbrother

Nancy Fairbrother (1913–1971) was an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use.

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National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year

The National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year Award is a British literary award, given annually to works of children's literature as part of the Galaxy National Book Awards.

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North (poetry collection)

North (1975) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Omeros

Omeros is an epic poem by Caribbean writer Derek Walcott, first published in 1990.

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Open Secrets

Open Secrets is a book of short stories by Alice Munro published by McClelland and Stewart in 1994.

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Orlando Figes

Orlando Guy Figes (born Islington, 20 November 1959) is a British historian and writer known for his works on Russian history.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War.

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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 191230 September 1990) was an Australian writer who, from 1935 to 1987, published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

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Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.

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Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley (born 1964 in East London) is an English storyteller working in a wide range of artistic media.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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R. C. Hutchinson

Ray Coryton Hutchinson (23 January 1907 – 3 July 1975) was a best-selling British novelist.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.

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Robert Gittings

Robert William Victor Gittings CBE (1 February 1911 – 18 February 1992), was an English writer, biographer, BBC Radio producer, playwright and poet.

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Robert Hughes (critic)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.

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Ronald Lewin

George Ronald Lewin CBE (11 October 1914 – 6 January 1984), later known as Ronald Lewin, was a British officer, publishing editor, radio producer and military historian.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Sharon Creech

Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels.

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Simon Schama

Sir Simon Michael Schama, CBE, FRSL, FBA (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, and French history.

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Tales from Ovid

Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998).

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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Temporary Kings

Temporary Kings is a novel by Anthony Powell, the penultimate in his twelve-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes is a history of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of Britain's convict transportation system.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles.

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The Good Terrorist

The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel written by the British novelist Doris Lessing.

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The Human Stain

The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth set in late 1990s rural New England.

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The Little Friend

The Little Friend is the second novel by Donna Tartt, initially published by Alfred A. Knopf on October 22, 2002, a decade after her first novel, The Secret History.

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The Mimic Men

The Mimic Men is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, first published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1967.

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The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004.

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The Pork Butcher

The Pork Butcher is a novel by English writer David Hughes, first published in 1984, and winner of the 1984 Welsh Arts council prize and the 1985 WH Smith Literary Award.

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The Soldier's Return

The Soldier's Return is the first novel in a quartet written by Melvyn Bragg.

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The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing (2003) is a novel by American writer Richard Powers.

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Thom Gunn

Thomson William “Thom” Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004), was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style.

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Thomas Pakenham (historian)

Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history, Victorian and post-Victorian British history, and trees.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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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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V. S. Pritchett

Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997), was a British writer and literary critic.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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Voss (novel)

Voss (1957) is the fifth published novel of Patrick White.

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Walk Two Moons

Walk Two Moons is a novel written by Sharon Creech, published by HarperCollins in 1994 and winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal.

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WHSmith

WHSmith PLC (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary.

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys.

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