James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
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Edition 48 (1966) Winner
Aidan Higgins
エイダン・ヒギンズ
Eidan Higginzu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1927-03-03 （Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland）
- Died
- 2015-12-27 （Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland） age 88
- Nationality
- Irish
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Catholic
- Residence History
- Celbridge, Ireland → Dublin, Ireland → London, UK → Southern Spain → South Africa → Berlin, Germany → Rhodesia → Kinsale, Ireland
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Copywriter, Scriptwriter
- Active Years
- 1960-2015
- Affiliations
- Aosdána
- Memberships
- Founder member of Aosdána
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clongowes Wood College | — | Unknown | — | — | Ireland |
Clongowes Wood College
Unknown
Country:
Ireland
Private boarding school
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Langrishe, Go Down | 小説部門 | University of Edinburgh | 受賞 |
| 1963 | Somin Trust Award | Felo de Se | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1969 | DAAD scholarship | — | — | German Academic Exchange Service | 受賞 |
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1967
Work:
Langrishe, Go Down
Category:
小説部門
Organization:
University of Edinburgh
Result:
受賞
Somin Trust Award
1963
Work:
Felo de Se
Result:
受賞
DAAD scholarship
1969
Organization:
German Academic Exchange Service
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Langrishe, Go Down
1966 FictionSet in a decaying big house in 1930s County Kildare, it depicts the impoverished lives of the Langrishe sisters, with one having an affair with a German intellectual.
Catholic landed familyDecline of the big houseAdulteryIntellectual contrast
Adaptations
- [TV film] Langrishe, Go Down / Harold Pinter (1978)
Balcony of Europe
1972 FictionSet in Nerja, Spain, about artist Dan Ruttle's obsession with his friend's American wife in an expatriate community.
Expatriate lifeStream of consciousnessMultilingualism
Bornholm Night-Ferry
1983 FictionBibliography
- A Bestiary
- Balcony of Europe
- Bornholm Night-Ferry
- Dog Days
- Donkey’s Years
- Felo de Se
- Flotsam & Jetsam
- Langrishe, Go Down
- Lions of the Grunewald
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Stream of consciousnessModernismMultilingual phrasesNon-conventional foreign settings
- Recurring Motifs
- Autobiographical fictionTravels abroadEuropean cosmopolitanism
Legacy
Irish modernist writer known for stream-of-consciousness novels with foreign settings and autobiographical elements. Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Archives
- University of Victoria, Special Collections
Trivia
- From a Catholic landed gentry family.
- Founder member of Aosdána.