Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 33 (2003) Winner
D. J. Taylor
ディージェイ・テイラー
Dī Jēi Teirā
Aliases:
David John Taylor
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1960 （Norwich）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Norwich, United Kingdom
Career
- Occupations
- Critic, Novelist, Biographer
- Active Years
- 1986-2025
- Affiliations
- Norwich Writers' Circle
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Nominations
- 1998 Booker Prize longlist (Trespass), 2011 Man Booker Prize longlist (Derby Day)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St John's College, Oxford | — | Modern History | — | — | United Kingdom |
St John's College, Oxford
Modern History
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Whitbread Prize | Orwell: The Life | Biography | — | Winner |
| 1999 | Grinzane Cavour Prize | English Settlement | — | — | Winner |
| 2014 | Sidewise Award | The Windsor Faction | — | — | Winner |
Whitbread Prize
2003
Work:
Orwell: The Life
Category:
Biography
Result:
Winner
Grinzane Cavour Prize
1999
Work:
English Settlement
Result:
Winner
Sidewise Award
2014
Work:
The Windsor Faction
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
1 appearances
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Edition 19 (2013) Winner
Works
Major Works
Orwell: The Life
2003 BiographyBiography of George Orwell. Winner of Whitbread Prize.
OrwellBiography
Derby Day
2011 NovelLonglisted for 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Historical fiction
Bibliography
- Great Eastern Land: From the Notebooks of David Castell (1986), novel
- A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989)
- Real Life (1992), novel
- English Settlement (1996), novel
- Trespass (1998), novel
- Thackeray (1999), biography
- The Comedy Man (2002), novel
- Orwell: The Life (2003), biography
- Kept (2006), novel
- Bright Young People (2007)
- Derby Day (2011), novel
- The Windsor Faction (2013), novel
- Lost Girls (2019)
- Orwell: The New Life (2023)
Legacy
British critic, novelist, and biographer known for his Orwell biography.