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Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic convert and hymn writer, Father Frederick William Faber, C.O., founder of the Brompton Oratory.

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Geoffrey Faber

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Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic...

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John Burnside

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Burnside include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread...

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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

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The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher...

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Don Paterson

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including the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry...

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Julian Barnes

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Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize. Barnes was...

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Frederick William Faber

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vault. Faber was the great-uncle of Geoffrey Faber, co-founder of the publishing house "Faber and Gwyer" which later became "Faber and Faber", a major...

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Graham Swift

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The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980) Shuttlecock (1981) – winner of the 1983 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Waterland (1983) – shortlisted for Booker Prize Out of...

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Waiting for the Barbarians

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the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also...

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Hugo Williams

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poetry book, Love-Life, Williams shared the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with George Szirtes. The Faber prize is awarded to "that volume of verse or...

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Liz Berry

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Black Country won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. Black Country was selected...

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Nick Laird

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Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2008. Go Giants is Laird's third collection, published by Faber and Faber in 2015. Laird's fourth...

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Timothy Mo

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as a journalist before becoming a novelist. His works have won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial...

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Piers Paul Read

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where he published many of his recent works. Read was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Junkers, the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham...

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Seamus Heaney

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Faber & Faber 1969: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber 1972: Wintering Out, Faber & Faber 1975: North, Faber & Faber 1979: Field Work, Faber & Faber 1984:...

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List of British literary awards

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Commonwealth Writers Prize Dundee International Book Prize (discontinued) Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued) Goldsmiths Prize Grindstone International...

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Kit Wright

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the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize...

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Will Self

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papers can be accessed through the British Library catalogue. 1991: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Quantity Theory of Insanity 1998: Aga Khan Prize...

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Michael Hofmann

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the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 for Nights in the Iron Hotel and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1988 for Acrimony. The same year, he also received...

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Susannah Waters

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Black Swan in 2004, and short-listed for the Pendleton May Award and Geoffrey Faber Award. Her second novel, Cold Comfort, published by Black Swan in 2006...

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John Henry Newman

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"soft, spectacled, Oxford manner, with its half-effeminate diffidence". Geoffrey Faber, whose own account of Newman in Oxford Apostles was far from hagiographic...

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Douglas Dunn

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Street 1976 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Love or Nothing 1976 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Love or Nothing 1981 Hawthornden Prize for St. Kilda's...

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Death of a Naturalist

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Cholmondeley Award, the Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The work consists of 34 short poems and is largely concerned...

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Eimear McBride

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Thing 2014 Folio Prize shortlist for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize winner for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing 2013 Goldsmiths...

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