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Blake Morrison (Skipton, 8 ottobre 1950) è un poeta e scrittore inglese, autore di una vasta gamma di opere, dalla poesia alla critica e al giornalismo letterario. Il suo più grande successo è il romanzo memoriale best-seller And When Did You Last See Your Father?, da cui di recente, nel 2007, è stato tratto un film. Dal 2003, Morrison è professore di 'Creative and Life Writing' al Goldsmiths College. È membro della Royal Society of Literature.
- The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (Oxford University Press, 1980)
- Seamus Heaney (Methuen, 1982)
- The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (co-editor with Andrew Motion) (Penguin, 1982)
- Dark Glasses (Chatto & Windus, 1984)
- The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper (and Other Poems) (Chatto & Windus, 1987)
- The Yellow House (illustrations by Helen Craig) (Walker Books, 1987)
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta, 1993)
- Gli uomini sono una beffa degli angeli. Poesia Britannica contemporanea, a cura di Erminia Passannanti, con una prefazione di Blake Morrison (Ripostes, 1994)
- Penguin Modern Poets 1 (Morrison, James Fenton, Kit Wright) (Penguin, 1995)
- Mind Readings: Writers' Journeys Through Mental States(co-editor with Sara Dunn and Michèle Roberts) (Minerva, 1996)
- Pendle Witches (illustrations by Paula Rego) (Enitharmon Press, 1996)
- The Cracked Plot (Samuel French, 1996)
- As If (Granta, 1997)
- Too True (Granta, 1998)
- Selected Poems (Granta, 1999)
- The Justification of Johann Gutenberg (Chatto & Windus, 2000)
- Things My Mother Never Told Me (Chatto & Windus, 2002)
- Antigone and Oedipus (Northern Broadsides, 2003)
- South of the River (Chatto & Windus, 2007)
- 1980 Eric Gregory Award
- 1985 Dylan Thomas Award
- 1985 Somerset Maugham Award for Dark Glasses
- 1988 E. M. Forster Award
- 1993 Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
- 1994 J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography for And When Did You Last See Your Father?
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Vincitori del Somerset Maugham Award |
A. L. Barker ( 1947) • P. H. Newby ( 1948) • Hamish Henderson ( 1949) • Nigel Kneale ( 1950) • Roland Camberton ( 1951) • Francis King ( 1952) • Emyr Humphreys ( 1953) • Doris Lessing ( 1954) • Kingsley Amis ( 1955) • Elizabeth Jennings ( 1956) • George Lamming ( 1957) • John Wain ( 1958) • Thom Gunn ( 1959) • Ted Hughes ( 1960) • Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul ( 1961) • Hugh Thomas ( 1962) • David Storey ( 1963) • ex aequo Dan Jacobson ( ) e John le Carré ( 1964) • Peter Everett ( 1965) • ex aequo Michael Frayn e Julian Mitchell ( 1966) • ex aequo B. S. Johnson e Andrew Sinclair ( 1967) • ex aequo Paul Bailey () e Seamus Heaney ( 1968) • Angela Carter ( 1969) • ex aequo Jane Gaskell e Piers Paul Read ( 1970) • ex aequo Susan Hill, Richard Barber e Michael Hastings ( 1971) • ex aequo Douglas Dunn () e Gillian Tindall ( 1972) • ex aequo Peter Prince, Paul Strathern e Jonathan Street ( 1973) • Martin Amis ( 1974) • Gabriel Josipovici ( 1975) • ex aequo Dominic Cooper e Ian McEwan ( 1976) • Richard Holmes ( 1977) • ex aequo Tom Paulin e Nigel Williams ( 1978) • ex aequo Helen Hodgman e Sara Maitland ( 1979) • ex aequo Max Hastings, Christopher Reid e Humphrey Carpenter ( 1980) • ex aequo Julian Barnes, Clive Sinclair e Andrew Norman Wilson ( 1981) • ex aequo William Boyd ( () e Adam Mars-Jones ( 1982) • Lisa St Aubin de Terán ( 1983) • ex aequo Peter Ackroyd, Timothy Garton Ash e Sean O'Brien ( 1984) • ex aequo Blake Morrison, Jeremy Reed e Jane Rogers ( 1985) • ex aequo Patricia Ferguson, Adam Nicolson e Tim Parks ( 1986) • ex aequo Stephen Gregory, Janni Howker e Andrew Motion ( 1987) • ex aequo Jimmy Burns, Carol Ann Duffy e Matthew Kneale ( 1988) • ex aequo Rupert Christiansen, Alan Hollinghurst () e Deirdre Madden ( 1989) • ex aequo Mark Hudson (), Sam North e Nicholas Shakespeare ( 1990) • ex aequo Peter Benson, Lesley Glaister e Helen Simpson ( 1991) • ex aequo Geoff Dyer, Lawrence Norfolk e Gerard Woodward ( 1992) • ex aequo Dea Birkett, Glyn Maxwell (), Duncan McLean ( 1993) • ex aequo Jackie Kay, A. L. Kennedy (), Philip Marsden ( 1994) • ex aequo Patrick French, Simon Garfield (), Laura Thompson ( ) e Kathleen Jamie ( 1995) • ex aequo Katherine Pierpoint () e Alan Warner ( 1996) • ex aequo Rhidian Brook (), Kate Clanchy, Philip Hensher e Francis Spufford( 1997) • ex aequo Rachel Cusk (), Jonathan Rendall, Kate Summerscale e Robert Twigger ( 1998) • ex aequo Andrea Ashworth, Paul Farley, Giles Foden e Jonathan Freedland ( 1999) • ex aequo Bella Bathurst e Sarah Waters ( 2000) • ex aequo Edward Platt e Ben Rice ( 2001) • ex aequo Charlotte Hobson e Marcel Theroux ( 2002) • ex aequo William Fiennes, Hari Kunzru e Jon McGregor ( 2003) • ex aequo Charlotte Mendelson, Mark Blayney e Robert Macfarlane ( 2004) • ex aequo Justin Hill () e Maggie O'Farrell ( 2005) • ex aequo Chris Cleave, Zadie Smith () e Owen Sheers ( 2006) • ex aequo Horatio Clare e James Scudamore ( 2007) • ex aequo Steven Hall, Gwendoline Riley, Adam Thirlwell (), Nick Laird ( 2008) • ex aequo Adam Foulds, Alice Albinia, Rodge Glass, Henry Hitchings, Thomas Leveritt, Helen Walsh (2009) |
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