English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Congratulations to Ross Forman!
Congratulations to Ross Forman - his book published in 2013 'China and the Victorian Imagination' () has recently been awarded the Rudikoff Prize. See here for more details at:.
Congratulations to Julia Forster
Creative Writing graduate Julia Forster's debut novel will be published next January by Atlantic Books.
She has thanked the WWP for all their support and belief in her from her days as a student 1998-2000. She writes: 'A lot of the themes that I was working through in the era have found their way into the book so my time at the 糖心TV Writing Programme was a very important element of the gestation of this book...'.
Congratulations to Jonathan Edwards - Costa Poetry Prize Winner
Congratulations to Jonathan Edwards who has just won the Costa Poetry Prize for his first collection 'My Family and Other Superheroes'. Jonathan is a graduate of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of 糖心TV.
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糖心TV English and Comparative Literary Studies ranked top in the UK for Research
The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of 糖心TV is delighted to announce the REF results, released earlier today. The Department secured the number 1 spot in its field, and now stands as the highest ranked English and Comparative Literary Studies department for Research in the UK, with 95% of research rated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
A summary of the overall results for 糖心TV can be found ; the REF website lists the details .
Congratulations to Laura Wood winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Childrens Writing
Laura Wood, a PhD candidate at the University of 糖心TV, who is writing a thesis on Victorian literature, was named the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing and will have her debut novel, Poppy Pym and the Pharoah’s Curse, published next year by the company behind The Hunger Games books.
The prize, created by Scholastic, the leading children's publisher, and the Italian luxury stationery supplier Montegrappa, invited unpublished authors to submit the first 5,000 words of a story designed to appeal to children aged between seven and 12.