James Kelman

James Kelman

male, 63 years old
first-person narrative, novelist, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize, Tom Leonard, Glaswegian speech patterns, How late it was, how late…booker prize, Booker Prize winner
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel "A...
Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

male, 66 years old
Psychogeographers, Encore Award, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize, icarus, Icarus magazine, jack the ripper…James Tait Memorial Prize, Encore Prize
Iain Sinclair is a British writer and film maker. Sinclair was born on June 11, 1943. His education includes studies at Trinity College (Dublin),...
Rose MacAulay

Rose MacAulay

female, deceased (1958)
British women writer, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Trebizond, World War I, British, DBE…JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August, 1881 - 30 October, 1958), affectionately known as Emilie (her actual first name), was an English...
Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate

male, 51 years old
Modern Library, random house, Stratford-upon-Avon, English, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, The Song of the Earth…Hawthornden Prize, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize
Jonathan Bate CBE (born June 26, 1958) is a British scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism. He was educated at Sevenoaks School and...
Janet Browne

Janet Browne

female, 59 years old
Harvard University, E. Janet Browne, years on the Beagle, Charles Darwin Voyaging, Charles Darwin The Power of Place, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine…JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize
E. Janet Browne (b. 1950) is a British historian of science known especially for her work on the history of 19th century biology. She had taught at...

Christopher Hassall

male, deceased (1963)
death by myocardial infarction, From London, myocardial infarction, actor, television actor, Playwright…JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize
Christopher Vernon Hassall was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical...
Chapman Mortimer

Chapman Mortimer

male
novelist, father goose, English, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize, William Charles ("W. C.") Chapman Mortimer, James Tait Black Award
Chapman Mortimer was the pen name of William Charles ("W. C.") Chapman Mortimer, an English novelist. He wrote a number of novels of middling...
Christine Brooke-Rose

Christine Brooke-Rose

female, 86 years old
novelist, experimental novel, Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose, University of Paris, Vincennes, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize
Christine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose (born January 16 1923) is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental...
Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi

female
Welsh women writer, university of east anglia, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Women novelist, JamesTaitBlackMemorialPrize, Maltese…booker prize
Trezza Azzopardi is a Maltese-Welsh writer. She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the...