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The Barker Book Awards - Celebrating Dogs in Literature; Brunel University African Poetry Prize; Caine Prize for African Fiction; Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language.
This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.
In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL was ranked 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Arts and Humanities. [7] In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL was ranked 15th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for English Language and Literature, [8] 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Modern Languages [9] and joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 16th in Europe) for ...
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate. The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the prime minister.The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions.
The primary aim of the rankings is to inform potential undergraduate applicants about UK universities based on a range of criteria, including entry standards, student satisfaction, staff/student ratio, academic services and facilities expenditure per student, research quality, proportion of Firsts and 2:1s, completion rates and student ...
It includes the oldest English Literature department in Britain, [34] which was ranked 7th globally in the 2021 QS Rankings by Subject in English Language & Literature. [153] The college hosts Scotland's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science. The college is the largest of the three colleges by ...