08/04/2013 · 12:55

Lowe wins PEN/Hessell-Tiltman Prize

The 2013 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history has been awarded to Keith Lowe for Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (Penguin Viking). Based on original documents, interviews and scholarly literature in eight languages, Savage Continent is a window on the brief, chaotic period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

The £3,000 prize is awarded annually by writers’ charity English PEN for a non-fiction book of popular history.  This year’s judges were biographer and historian Philip Ziegler; Jane Ridley, professor of history and writer; and Stella Tillyard, historian, writer and Knox Fellow.

Keith Lowe will accept his prize from Chair of Judges Philip Ziegler at 4 pm on Tuesday, 16 April, as part of the English PEN Literary Café programme at the 2013 London Book Fair.

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04/04/2013 · 14:41

Countdown to LBF 2013

Just over 10 days to go to the big event.The London Book Fair has an online diary for all attendees and exhibitors, My LBF, which includes an extensive scheduling tool, designed to help exhibitors and visitors make new contacts, organise meetings and set-up vital networking opportunities at the fair.  For more information or to sign up now visit: www.londonbookfair.co.uk/diary

 

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04/04/2013 · 14:25

National Poetry Competition Winner

Out of 13,041 entires, Patricia McCarthy’s ‘Clothes that escaped the Great War’ is the Winner of the National Poetry Competition.

Judges Vicki Feaver, W N Herbert and Nick Laird were initially struck by the surprising title of McCarthy’s work, but were soon captivated by this atmospheric poem based on a story her own mother told her – a memory of something she had witnessed as a small girl in Yorkshire, during the First World War.

Patricia McCarthy becomes the 36th person to win the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition since it began in 1978. The competition has been an important milestone in the careers of many of today’s leading poets and  recognises an individual poem, previously unpublished, in an anonymised judging process. The judges only discover the identity of the winners after making their final decision. Take a look at http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk

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