Who won a more prestigious prize, Hugh MacDiarmid or Harold Pinter?
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Hugh MacDiarmid Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid ( ), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', a literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed. However, Grieve's earliest work -- such as "Annals of the Five Senses" was written in English, and from the early 1930s onwards much of the poetry published under MacDiarmid's name was written in an English that was supplemented to varying degrees by scientific and technical vocabularies.
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Harold Pinter Harold Pinter ( ; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include "The Birthday Party" (1957), "The Homecoming" (1964), and "Betrayal" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include "The Servant" (1963), "The Go-Between" (1971), "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981), "The Trial" (1993), and "Sleuth" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
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Manchester Fiction Prize The Manchester Fiction Prize is a literary award celebrating excellence in creative writing. It was launched by Carol Ann Duffy and The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009, as the second phase of the annual Manchester Writing Competition (which began in 2008 with the first Manchester Poetry Prize, judged by Duffy, Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker).
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Sidney Howard Memorial Award The Sidney Howard Memorial Award was a notable but short-lived theater prize established in 1939. It was designed to support new playwrights who had no notable successes but had shown promise. Among the awardees are Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams.
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Iain Eairdsidh MacAsgaill Iain Eairdsidh MacAsgaill or the Bàrd Bheàrnaraigh (the Berneray Bard) was a Scottish poet and piper (19 February 1898 — 4 June 1934). He is also known as "Iain Archie MacAskill and" "John Archie MacAskill." His Gaelic genealogical name was Iain-Eirdsidh Dhòmhnaill Thormoid-Shaighdeir ("John Archie son of Donald son of Norman the soldier.").
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Douglas MacDiarmid Douglas Kerr MacDiarmid (born 14 November 1922) is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished expatriate painters, known for his diversity and exceptional use of colour. Involved with key movements in twentieth-century art, he currently lives in Paris, France.
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Angus Macnab John Angus Macnab (1906–1977) was a British conservative politician who embraced Roman Catholicism under the influence of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who was a close associate of William Joyce, and who later became noted as a Perennialist writer on Medieval Spain and translator of Latin and Greek poetry.
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Robert Wilson Lynd Robert Wilson Lynd ("Irish: Roibéard Ó Floinn"; 20 April 1879 – 6 October 1949) was an Irish writer, editor of poetry, urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist.
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Peer Gynt Prize The Peer Gynt Prize or the Peer Gynt Award ("Årets Peer Gynt" or "Per Gynt-prisen") is a private Norwegian prize presented annually by the private commercial company "Peer Gynt AS" during the Peer Gynt Festival, also organised by the same company. The Peer Gynt Prize is named after the main character in "Peer Gynt" (1867), a five-act play in verse by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. The prize is awarded to people or institutions who has marked themselves in a positive way nationally and internationally. However, the prize has received criticism for misrepresenting the Peer Gynt character, who is portrayed in Ibsen's play as quintessentially immoral and selfish.
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James Logie Robertson James Logie Robertson (18 September 1846 – June 1922) was a literary scholar, editor and author, who also wrote under the pen name "Hugh Haliburton". His poems, published regularly in the Scotsman newspaper, were affectionately known as "The Hughies".
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Michael Hurll Michael Hurll (7 October 1936 – 18 September 2012) was a British television producer who specialized in the comedy and light entertainment genres. He produced many British TV shows including "The Two Ronnies", "Top of the Pops", and "Blind Date". He was for many years a producer for the BBC, and later worked for LWT and as an independent producer. He also had a long association with television hosts Cilla Black and Noel Edmonds. At the BBC, he was the producer of The Eurovision Song Contest twice, taking charge of the 1974 contest in Brighton (won by Abba) and again in 1982 in Harrogate.
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Victoria Station (play) Victoria Station is a short play for two actors by the English playwright Harold Pinter.
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Michael Maclear Michael Maclear (born 1929) is an award-winning Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker,
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Hugh Adam Crawford Hugh Adam Crawford, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'RSA', '4': "} (28 October 1898 – 1982), was a Scottish artist and oil painter, mostly of portraits and figures, who was an influential and charismatic figure in the 1930s Glasgow art scene. During a long teaching career, Crawford influenced and inspired many notable students including Joan Eardley, Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.
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Giles Cooper Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE (9 August 1918 – 2 December 1966) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.
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Hal Boyle Harold Vincent "Hal" Boyle (July 24, 1911 – April 1, 1974) was a prolific, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist for the Associated Press. During 30 years with the AP Boyle wrote 7,680 columns. He is best known for his work as a war correspondent during World War II. He was consistently closer to the front lines in the European and Pacific theatres of operation than other correspondents. His column became a staple in over 700 newspapers. He is also the namesake of a prize given annually to reporters by the Oversees Press Club of America, for the best newspaper or wire service reporting from abroad.
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Tormod MacGill-Eain Norman Hector Mackinnon Maclean (Scottish Gaelic: Tormod MacGill-Eain; 26 December 1936 – 31 August 2017) was a Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster. He is the only person to have won both Bardic Crown and Gold Medal at the same Royal National Mòd. His struggles with alcoholism are documented in his autobiography, "The Leper's Bell:Autobiography of a Changeling".
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Hugh Honour Hugh Honour FRSL (26 September 1927 – 19 May 2016) was a British art historian, known for his writing partnership with John Fleming. Their "A World History of Art" (a.k.a. "The Visual Arts: A History"), is now in its seventh edition and Honour's "Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay" (1961) first set the phenomenon of chinoiserie in its European cultural context.
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McKitterick Prize The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of "The Political Quarterly" but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000.
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Hugh Kingsmill Hugh Kingsmill Lunn (21 November 1889 – 15 May 1949), who dropped his last name for professional purposes, was a versatile British writer and journalist. Writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers.
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The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between "The Birthday Party" (1957) and "The Caretaker" (1959). After writing "The Hothouse" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of "The Birthday Party", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed its first production, at Hampstead Theatre, where it opened on 24 April 1980, transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 June 1980, and it was first published, also in 1980, by Eyre Methuen. The play received its American premiere at the Trinity Repertory Company in 1982. Pinter himself played Roote in a subsequent production staged at the Minerva Theatre, in Chichester, in 1995, later transferring to the Comedy Theatre, in London.
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John MacAlister Sir John Young Walker MacAlister (10 May 1856 – 1 December 1925) was a Scottish journalist, editor, librarian, and promoter of medical postgraduate education. He was the Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1901 to 1925 and one of the promoters of the Society's formation.