Duff Cooper Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 26 (1981) Winner
Victoria Glendinning
ビクトリア・グレンディニング
Bikutoria Gurendinning
Aliases:
Seebohm
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1937-04-23 （Sheffield）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Quaker
- Residence History
- near York, England
Career
- Occupations
- biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist
- Active Years
- 1969-2024
- Affiliations
- English PEN (honorary vice-president), Royal Society of Literature (vice-president)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1982)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millfield School | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Somerville College, Oxford | — | Modern Languages | — | — | United Kingdom |
Millfield School
Country:
United Kingdom
privately educated
Somerville College, Oxford
Modern Languages
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions | 伝記 | University of Edinburgh | winner |
| 1983 | Whitbread Prize | Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West | 伝記 | — | winner |
| 1992 | Whitbread Prize | Anthony Trollope | 伝記 | — | winner |
| 1998 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | — | — | British Government | awarded |
| 1995 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | Trinity College Dublin | awarded |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate | — | — | University of York | awarded |
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1981
Work:
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Category:
伝記
Organization:
University of Edinburgh
Result:
winner
Whitbread Prize
1983
Work:
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Category:
伝記
Result:
winner
Whitbread Prize
1992
Work:
Anthony Trollope
Category:
伝記
Result:
winner
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1998
Organization:
British Government
Result:
awarded
Honorary Doctorate
1995
Organization:
Trinity College Dublin
Result:
awarded
Honorary Doctorate
2000
Organization:
University of York
Result:
awarded
Awards & Nominations
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
-
Edition 63 (1981) Winner
Costa Book Awards
2 appearances
-
Edition 13 (1983) Winner
-
Edition 22 (1992) Winner
Works
Major Works
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
1977 BiographyBiography of the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen.
writer's lifeliterary influence
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
1981 BiographyBiography of poet Edith Sitwell. Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Modernismfemale writers
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
1983 BiographyBiography of writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West. Winner of Whitbread Prize.
homosexualityBloomsbury Group
Anthony Trollope
1992 BiographyBiography of Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope. Winner of Whitbread Prize.
Victorian literaturepostal novels
The Butcher's Daughter
2018 Historical NovelHistorical novel set in the 1530s dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey.
English Reformationdissolution of monasteries
Bibliography
- A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter (1969)
- Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer (1977)
- Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981)
- Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West (1983)
- Rebecca West: A Life (1987)
- The Grown-Ups (1989, novel)
- Trollope (1992)
- Electricity (1995, novel)
- Sons and Mothers (1996, co-edited)
- Jonathan Swift (1998)
- Flight (2002, novel)
- Leonard Woolf: A Biography (2006)
- Raffles and the Golden Opportunity (2012)
- The Butcher's Daughter (2018, novel)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- researched biographical stylecritical insight
- Recurring Motifs
- lives of female writersliterary relationships
Legacy
The only person to win the Whitbread Prize for biography twice, making significant contributions to British biographical literature.
Trivia
- Born into a Quaker family.
- Studied Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford.
- Gave birth to four sons before age 28.