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PEN/Ackerley Prize

Index PEN/Ackerley Prize

PEN Ackerley Prize (or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year. [1]

37 relations: Alan Bennett, Alice Jolly, Amy Liptrot, Angelica Garnett, Anthony Burgess, Autobiography, Bad Blood (Sage book), Barry Humphries, Blake Morrison, Bryan Magee, Dan Jacobson, Diana Athill, Duncan Fallowell, Edward Blishen, English PEN, Eric Lomax, Gabriel Weston, Germaine Greer, Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon), J. R. Ackerley, Jenny Diski, John Healy (Irish journalist), John Osborne, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Julia Blackburn, Kathleen Dayus, Little Wilson and Big God, Lorna Sage, Margaret Forster, Michael Frayn, Miranda Seymour, Paul Vaughan, Richard Cobb, Richard Holloway, Sonali Deraniyagala, Ted Walker, Tim Lott.

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

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Alice Jolly

Alice Jolly (born 1966) is an English novelist, playwright and memoirist, who has won both the Royal Society of Literature’s V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories (2014) and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography (2016).

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Amy Liptrot

Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author.

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Angelica Garnett

Angelica Vanessa Garnett, née Bell (25 December 1918 – 4 May 2012), was a British writer, painter and artist.

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Bad Blood (Sage book)

Bad Blood is a 2000 work blending collective biography and memoir by the Welsh literary critic and novelist Lorna Sage.

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Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author.

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Blake Morrison

Philip Blake Morrison (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres.

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Bryan Magee

Bryan Edgar Magee (born 12 April 1930) is a British philosopher, broadcaster, politician, author, and poet, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.

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Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist.

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Diana Athill

Diana Athill (born 21 December 1917) is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.

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Duncan Fallowell

Duncan Fallowell is an English novelist, travel writer, journalist and critic (see also entries in Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edition; and current Who's Who).

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Edward Blishen

Edward Blishen (29 April 1920 – 13 December 1996) was an English author and broadcaster.

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English PEN

English PEN is the founding centre of PEN International, the worldwide writers’ association.

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Eric Lomax

Eric Sutherland Lomax (30 May 1919 – 8 October 2012) was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942.

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Gabriel Weston

Gabriel Jessie Corfield Weston (born 15 July 1970 in London) is an English surgeon, author and television presenter.

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)

Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS (born 5 March 1950) is a leading English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine.

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Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds;Katharine Viner, The Guardian, 8 March 2011. 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer.

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John Healy (Irish journalist)

John Healy (1930–1991) was an Irish journalist from Charlestown, County Mayo, who wrote for Western People and The Irish Times.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.

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Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (born 1933 in Edinburgh) is a British author, known for biographies, including one of Alfred Kinsey, and books of social history on the British nanny and public school system.

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Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Kathleen Dayus

Kathleen Dayus (1903 – January 2003) was an English author from the West Midlands.

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Little Wilson and Big God

Little Wilson and Big God, volume I of Anthony Burgess's autobiography, was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1986.

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Lorna Sage

Lorna Sage (13 January 1943 – 11 January 2001) was an English academic, as well as a literary critic and author, known widely for her contribution to the consideration of women's writing.

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Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist, and biographer.

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Paul Vaughan

Paul William Vaughan (24 October 1925 – 14 November 2014) was a British journalist, radio presenter (of art and science programmes) throughout the 1970s and 1980s, semi-professional jazz and classical musician and a narrator of many BBC Television science documentaries, among them ''Horizon''.

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Richard Cobb

Richard Charles Cobb CBE (20 May 1917 – 15 January 1996) was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford.

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Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway, FRSE (born 26 November 1933) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric.

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Sonali Deraniyagala

Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist.

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Ted Walker

Edward Joseph (Ted) Walker FRSL (28 November 1934 – 19 March 2004) was a prize-winning English poet, short story writer, travel writer, TV and radio dramatist and broadcaster.

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Tim Lott

Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956) is a British author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Ackerley_Prize

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