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The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annual recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It was conferred upon the author of the book by The Guardian newspaper
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, before it changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited.
- United Kingdom
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- 5 May 1821; 202 years ago (as The Manchester Guardian, renamed The Guardian in 1959)
- Kings Place, London
The Guardian é um jornal diário nacional britânico independente, [ 1] conhecido, até 1959, como Manchester Guardian. Junto com seus jornais irmãos, The Guardian Weekly e The Observer, o Guardian faz parte do Guardian Media Group, propriedade do The Scott Trust Limited.
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Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India, to a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Mazumdar.Her Bengali father first met her German mother while he was an engineering student in pre-war Berlin; and they got married during a period when it was still unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. Shortly after...
Desai published her first novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963. In 1958 she collaborated with P. Lal and founded the publishing firm Writers Workshop. She considers Clear Light of Day(1980) her most autobiographical work as it is set during her coming of age and also in the same neighborhood in which she grew up. In 1984, she published In Custody – abou...
In 1993, her novel In Custody was adapted by Merchant Ivory Productions into an English film by the same name, directed by Ismail Merchant, with a screenplay by Shahrukh Husain. It won the 1994 President of India Gold Medal for Best Picture and stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri.
1978 – Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – Fire on the Mountain1978 – Sahitya Akademi Award (National Academy of Letters Award) – Fire on the Mountain1980 – Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction – Clear Light of Day1983 – Guardian Children's Fiction Prize – The Village by the Sea: an Indian family storyCry, The Peacock (1963) Orient Paperbacks ISBN 978-81-222008-5-0Voices in the City (1965), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222005-3-9Bye-bye Blackbird (1971), Orient Paperbacks, ISBN 978-81-222002-9-4The Peacock Garden (1974), Mammoth Books, ISBN 978-07-497059-2-3Abrams, M. H. and Stephen Greenblatt. "Anita Desai". The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785.Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories.New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101.Gupta, Indra. India's 50 Most Illustrious Women. (ISBN 81-88086-19-3)Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Anita Desai:Winterscape". Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction.New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005:69–90.Anita Desai at British Council: LiteratureAnita Desai discusses Fasting, Feasting on the BBC World Book Club- Indian
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The Guardian First Book Award was a literary award presented by The Guardian newspaper. It annually recognised one book by a new writer. It was established in 1999, replacing the Guardian Fiction Award or Guardian Fiction Prize that the newspaper had sponsored from 1965.
19 de ago. de 2018 · The longlist for the Guardian first book award 2015 spans the world. ... One of the titles on the longlist for this year’s prize for literary debuts is up to readers.
