Which novelist won the Erasmus Prize, Kingsley Amis or Marguerite Yourcenar?
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Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism. According to his biographer, Zachary Leader, Amis was "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." He is the father of British novelist Martin Amis.
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Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (] ; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the "Prix Femina" and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
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Emma Smith (author) Emma Smith (born 21 August 1923) is an English novelist, who has also written for children and published two volumes of autobiography.
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Matilda Anne Mackarness Matilda Anne Mackarness ("née" Planché; 23 November 1825 – 6 May 1881) was an English novelist of the 19th century, primarily writing children's literature.
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William Edward Norris William Edward Norris (18 November 1847 – 1925) was an English novelist and writer of short stories. Norris wrote over 60 novels; the "Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th (ed)", published in 1911, listed the following as his best to that date: "Mademoiselle de Mersac" (1880), "Matrimony" (1881), "No New Thing" (1883), "My Friend Jim" (1886), "The Rogue" (1888), "The Despotic Lady" (1895), "Mathew Austin" (1895), "The Widower" (1898), "Nature's Comedian" (1904) and "Pauline" (1908).
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Gilbert Cannan Gilbert Cannan (25 June 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a British novelist and dramatist.
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Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury included Raymond Aron, Maurice Blanchot, , Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.
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Hypatia (novel) Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face is an 1853 novel by the English writer Charles Kingsley. It is a fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, and tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria, where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day. Although intended as Christian apologia, the novel has a deliberate anti-Catholic tone, and it also reflects Kingsley's other prejudices about race and religion, many of which were typical to the 19th century. For many years the book was considered one of Kingsley's best novels and was widely read.
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Evelyn Everett-Green Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.
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Grace McCleen Grace McCleen (born 1981) is a British novelist. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. She won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Betty Trask Award, Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, was shortlisted for the Encore Award and longlisted for the Bailey’s Prize.
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Goldsmiths Prize The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award founded in 2013. It is for fiction that "opens up new possibilities for the novel form". It is sponsored by Goldsmiths, University of London in association with the "New Statesman" and has a £10,000 remuneration. The award is limited to UK and Irish authors and books must be published by a UK-based publisher.
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Ingrid Thobois Ingrid Thobois is a French novelist and development worker. She was born in Rouen in 1980. She has worked extensively in Afghanistan as a language teacher, and has also taken part in missions in Indonesia, Congo, Moldavia, and Central Asia.
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Emma Tennant Hon. Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was a British novelist and editor. She was known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic.
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Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (] ; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.
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Matilda Jane Evans Henrietta Matilda Jane Evans ("née" Congreve) (7 August 1827 – 22 October 1886) was an Australian novelist, who wrote under the pseudonym Maud Jean Franc.
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Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the 1975 novel "Curtain", Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of "The New York Times". The literary historian Howard Haycraft considered that "few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian—with his waxed moustache and egg-shaped head, his inflated confidence in the infallibility of his 'little grey cells', his murderous attacks on the English language—either for individuality or ingenuity."
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Sidney Kingsley Sidney Kingsley (22 October 1906 – 20 March 1995) was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Men in White" in 1934.
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Emma Parker Emma Parker ("fl" 1809–1817), was a novelist residing in Wales and writing in English, of whom very little is known. Her epistolary novel "Self-Deception" explores the cultural and religious differences between the English and the French.
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Enrique Vila-Matas Enrique Vila-Matas (born March 31, 1948 in Barcelona) is a Spanish novelist. He is the author of several award-winning books that mix different genres like meta-fiction and have been translated into thirty languages.
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The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit.
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Emily Smith (author) Emily Smith is an English children's writer. Her books are aimed at young readers, mainly writing for Young Corgi Books (a Transworld Publishers imprint) and Orchard Books. Her first children's book, "Astrid, the au pair from Outer Space" won the Silver medal in the 6-8 age group, at the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1999. "The Shrimp" won the 6-8 age group Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold medal in 2000.
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Erasmus House Erasmus House is a museum in Anderlecht, a municipality in Brussels, devoted to the Dutch humanist writer Erasmus.