Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1968) Winner
Paul Bailey
ポール・ベイリー
Pōru Beirī
Aliases:
Peter Harry Bailey
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1937-02-16 （Battersea, London, England）
- Died
- 2024-10-27 age 87
- Nationality
- British, English
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- London, England
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Critic, Biographer
- Active Years
- 1964-2019
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature, Kingston University
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999)
- Nominations
- Booker Prize shortlist (Peter Smart's Confessions, 1977), Booker Prize shortlist (Gabriel's Lament, 1986)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys | — | — | — | — | England |
| Central School of Speech and Drama | — | Drama | — | 1953-1956 | England |
Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys
Country:
England
Central School of Speech and Drama
Drama
Period:
1953-1956
Country:
England
Scholarship in 1953, acted 1956-1964
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Somerset Maugham Award | At the Jerusalem | — | Society of Authors | winner |
| 1968 | Authors' Club Best First Novel Award | At the Jerusalem | — | Authors' Club | winner |
| 1974 | E. M. Forster Award | — | — | — | winner |
| 1978 | George Orwell Memorial Prize | The Limitations of Despair | — | — | winner |
Somerset Maugham Award
1968
Work:
At the Jerusalem
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
winner
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
1968
Work:
At the Jerusalem
Organization:
Authors' Club
Result:
winner
E. M. Forster Award
1974
Result:
winner
George Orwell Memorial Prize
1978
Work:
The Limitations of Despair
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
At the Jerusalem
1967 NovelNovel set in an old people's home
LonelinessAging
Gabriel's Lament
1986 NovelChapman's Odyssey
2011 NovelHarry Chapman encounters literary characters in morphine-induced delirium
LiteratureDeathMemory
Bibliography
- At the Jerusalem (1967)
- Trespasses (1970)
- A Distant Likeness (1973)
- Peter Smart's Confessions (1977)
- Old Soldiers (1980)
- An English Madam (1982)
- Gabriel's Lament (1986)
- An Immaculate Mistake (1990)
- Sugar Cane (1993)
- Kitty and Virgil (1998)
- Uncle Rudolf (2002)
- Chapman's Odyssey (2011)
- The Prince's Boy (2014)
- Joie de Vivre (2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- MelancholicIntrospective
- Recurring Motifs
- Love and lossHomosexualityLiterary allusions
Legacy
English novelist known for Booker shortlists, exploring love and loss from a gay perspective
Trivia
- Former actor turned novelist
- Biographer of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp
- London-born gay writer