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Desmond Elliott Prize

Index Desmond Elliott Prize

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for the best debut novel written in English and published in the UK. [1]

53 relations: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Ali Shaw, Anjali Joseph, Anthony Quinn, Atlantic Books, BBC, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boxer, Beetle, Candida Lycett Green, Chatto & Windus, Child 44, Claire Fuller, D. W. Wilson, Debut novel, Desmond Elliott, Doubleday (publisher), Edward Hogan (writer), Edward Stourton (journalist), Eimear McBride, Elizabeth Buchan, Fortnum & Mason, Foundation (nonprofit), Francis Spufford, Gavin Extence, Gifted (novel), Grace McCleen, Granta, HarperCollins, Heinemann (publisher), Hodder & Stoughton, Jacob Polley, Jenni Fagan, Jonathan Cape, Lisa McInerney, Ned Beauman, Nikita Lalwani, Orion Publishing Group, Our Endless Numbered Days (novel), Patrick McGuinness, Penguin Books, Picador (imprint), Pigeon English, Ros Barber, Sam Llewellyn, Saraswati Park, Sceptre (imprint), Seren Books, Simon & Schuster, Stephen Kelman, The Guardian, ..., The Land of Decoration, Tindal Street Press, Tom Rob Smith. Expand index (3 more) »

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride.

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Ali Shaw

Alison "Ali" Shaw (née Douglas), better known as "Ali Shaw" is a Scottish television presenter, who has appeared on ITV News, Sky Sports and MUTV.

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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph (born 1978) is a British-Indian author, journalist, and teacher.

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Anthony Quinn

Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor, painter and writer.

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Atlantic Books

Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in the Ormond House in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Boxer, Beetle

Boxer, Beetle is a novel by British author Ned Beauman.

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Candida Lycett Green

Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 194219 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus was an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era.

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Child 44

Child 44 (published in 2008) is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith.

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Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967) is an English author who won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her debut novel Our Endless Numbered Days.

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D. W. Wilson

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Desmond Elliott

Desmond Elliott (1930 – 12 August 2003) was a distinguished publisher and literary agent.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.

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Edward Hogan (writer)

Edward Hogan (born 1980) is a British novelist.

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Edward Stourton (journalist)

Edward John Ivo Stourton (born 24 November 1957) is a BBC broadcaster and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Sunday, and a frequent contributor to the Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters.

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Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride (born 1976) is an Irish novelist whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker (born 21 May 1948) is a British writer of non-fiction and fiction books since 1985.

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Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason (colloquially often shortened to just "Fortnum's") is an upmarket department store in Piccadilly, London, with additional stores at St Pancras railway station and Heathrow Airport in London, as well as various stockists worldwide.

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Foundation (nonprofit)

A foundation (also a charitable foundation) is a legal category of nonprofit organization that will typically either donate funds and support to other organizations, or provide the source of funding for its own charitable purposes.

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Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author.

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Gavin Extence

Gavin Extence (born 1982) is an English writer.

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Gifted (novel)

Gifted is the debut novel by author Nikita Lalwani longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.

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Grace McCleen

Grace McCleen (born 1981) is a British novelist.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.".

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley (born 1975) is an English poet from Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

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Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan is a Scottish novelist best known for The Panopticon published in 2012.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Lisa McInerney

Lisa McInerney (born 1981) is an Irish short story writer, blogger, and novelist.

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Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman is a British novelist and journalist.

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Nikita Lalwani

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff, Wales.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Our Endless Numbered Days (novel)

Our Endless Numbered Days is the debut novel by British author Claire Fuller, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize.

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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Picador (imprint)

Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States.

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Pigeon English

Pigeon English is the debut novel by English author Stephen Kelman.

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Ros Barber

Ros Barber (born 25 January 1964) is a British novelist, poet, and academic.

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Sam Llewellyn

Sam Llewellyn (born 1948) is a British author of literature for children and adults.

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Saraswati Park

Saraswati Park is a 2010 drama novel written by Anjali Joseph.

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Sceptre (imprint)

Sceptre is an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, a British publishing house which is a division of Hachette UK.

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Seren Books

Seren Books is a small independent publisher, specialising in English-language writing from Wales and also publishing literature, poetry and non-fiction from around the world.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Stephen Kelman

Stephen Kelman is an English novelist who grew up on the Marsh Farm council estate in Luton.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Land of Decoration

The Land of Decoration is the debut novel by British author Grace McCleen published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus.

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Tindal Street Press

Tindal Street Press is a Birmingham-based independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction, with a particular focus on writers born, or living, in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

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Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Elliott_Prize

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