It was awarded to Jonathan Taylor for his Scablands and Other Stories
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First Worl…
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Born 27 May 1867 · Died 27 March 1931 · Q314158
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2023· 1 entry
Went to Philip Nanney Williams for his book Adams: Britain's Oldest Potting Dynasty
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2021· 2 entries
Because of the Covid-19 situation, but in 2022 it was won by John Pye, a former detective inspector turned crime writer, for his novel Where the Silent Screams Are Loudest
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Its president was Denis Eldin, Bennett's grandson; among the vice presidents was Margaret Drabble
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2017· 2 entries
The society instituted an annual Arnold Bennett Prize as part of the author's 150th-anniversary celebrations, to be awarded to an author who was born, lives or works in North Staffordshire and has published a book in the
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John Lancaster won the award for his poetry collection Potters: A Division of Labour
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2010· 1 entry
And 2011 two further volumes of Bennett's hitherto uncollected short stories were published: they range from his earliest work written in the 1890s, some under the pseudonym Sarah Volatile, to US magazine commissions fro
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2006· 1 entry
Koenigsberger commented that one reason why Bennett's novels had been sidelined, apart from "the exponents of modernism who recoiled from his democratising aesthetic programme", was his attitude to gender
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1974· 1 entry
Margaret Drabble published Arnold Bennett, a literary biography
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1962· 1 entry
And there are blue plaques commemorating him at the house in Cadogan Square where he lived from 1923 to 1930 and on the house in Cobridge where he lived in his youth
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1954· 1 entry
"to promote the study and appreciation of the life, works and times not only of Arnold Bennett himself but also of other provincial writers, with particular relationship to North Staffordshire
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1935· 1 entry
He, the publishers and printers had to pay an undisclosed sum to the plaintiff in one libel suit and £2,500 in another
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1931· 4 entries
Died 1931-03-27.
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Of typhoid fever, having drunk contaminated tap water in France
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And in the same year another was placed at Bennett's birthplace in Hanley
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The critic Graham Sutton, looking back at Bennett's career in the theatre, contrasted his achievements as a playwright with those as a novelist, suggesting that Bennett was a complete novelist but a not-entirely-complete
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1929· 1 entry
The year the film came out, Bennett was in discussion with a young Alfred Hitchcock to script a silent film, Punch and Judy, which foundered on artistic disagreements and Bennett's refusal to see the film as a "talkie"
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1928· 1 entry
Bennett wrote the scenario for the silent film Piccadilly, directed by E
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1923).
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1922· 1 entry
Bennett met and fell in love with an actress, Dorothy Cheston (1891–1977)
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1921· 2 entries
Bennett and his wife legally separated
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And he spent the last years of his life with a new partner, an English actress
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1920· 1 entry
Wrote The Wedding Dress, a scenario for a silent movie, at the request of Jesse Lasky of the Famous Players film company
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1916· 1 entry
And in 1917 he completed a sequel, The Roll Call, which ends with its hero, George Cannon, enlisting in the army
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1915· 1 entry
Was invited to visit France to see conditions at the front and write about them for readers at home
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1912· 2 entries
“The Matador of the Five Towns”
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After an extended stay at the Hotel Californie in Cannes, during which time he wrote The Regent, a light-hearted sequel to The Card, Bennett and his wife moved from France to England
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1911· 1 entry
Bennett made a financially rewarding visit to the US, which he later recorded in his 1912 book Those United States
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1910· 1 entry
The figure was "probably about 80 other articles"
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1908· 1 entry
The couple moved from the rue d'Aumale to the Villa des Néfliers in Fontainebleau-Avon, about 40 miles (64 km) south-east of Paris
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1905· 1 entry
Bennett became engaged to Eleanor Green, a member of an eccentric and capricious American family living in Paris, but at the last moment, after the wedding invitations had been sent out, she broke off the engagement and
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1903· 1 entry
Gave Bennett the germ of an idea for the novel generally regarded as his masterpiece
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1900· 1 entry
Bennett resigned his post at Woman, and left London to set up house at Trinity Hall Farm, near the village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire, where he made a home not only for himself but for his parents and younger sister
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1897· 1 entry
At the start of their long friendship, he wrote to Wells that he was "very glad to find that the Potteries made such an impression on you
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1896· 2 entries
Was published two years later, by John Lane, whose reader, John Buchan, recommended it for publication
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Bennett was promoted to be editor of Woman; by then he had set his sights on a career as a full-time author, but he served as editor for four years
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1894· 1 entry
Bennett resigned from the law firm and became assistant editor of the magazine Woman
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1893· 1 entry
For his story 'The Artist's Model'; another short story, 'A Letter Home', was submitted successfully to The Yellow Book, where it featured in 1895 alongside contributions from Henry James and other well-known writers
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1885· 1 entry
“the father of all my Five Towns books”
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1883· 1 entry
Aged 16, Bennett left school and began work – unpaid – in his father's office
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-05-27.
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