Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE FRSL (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and literary critic. Pritchett was known particularly...
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Oliver Pritchett, a journalist and columnist. Her brother Matt is a cartoonist, and her grandfather is writer and literary critic, V. S. Pritchett. In an...
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since 1988. Pritchett's father Oliver Pritchett, who was a columnist for The Telegraph for all decades, is the son of the writer V. S. Pritchett. Matt's sister...
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Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16, 1857 – August 28, 1939) was an American astronomer, university president and philanthropist. Pritchett was born on April...
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List of Modern Family characters (redirect from Jay Pritchett)
revolving around three families interrelated through Jay Pritchett, his son Mitchell Pritchett, and his daughter Claire Dunphy. The families meet for family...
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best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941). Warner was described by V. S. Pritchett as "the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas...
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with Cambridge University". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 24 August 2021. "V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize – Royal Society of Literature". 8 November 2017....
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act. The opera was adapted into a 1983 short story by the novelist V. S. Pritchett for publication by the Metropolitan Opera Association. Baz Luhrmann...
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Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 21 July 2024. "Kaliane Bradley wins the £1,000 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022 with 'Doggerland'". Royal Society of Literature...
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short fiction by V. S. Pritchett first collected in It May Never Happen and Other Stories by Chatto & Windus. The story is among Pritchett's most anthologized...
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Heath, Constant Lambert, Ergy Landau, Nancy Mitford, Stephen Potter, V. S. Pritchett, E. Arnot Robertson, Murray Sayle, Ronald Searle, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell...
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Careless Widow and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by V. S. Pritchett published in 1989 by Random House. The six stories first appeared individually...
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Jackson, Schuyler Jackson, Len Lye, Laurie Lee, William Piel Jr., V. S. Pritchett, Lyman Spitzer, and Adlai Stevenson. Matthews was married three times...
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friends, Hume Cronyn (whose wife Jessica Tandy was playing Lydia), and V. S. Pritchett, who both offered lengthy reflections on the work. This is something...
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VSP may refer to: V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), author Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians, a noise warning system...
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Royal Society of Literature (redirect from F.R.S.L.)
Non-Fiction, the RSL Encore Award for best second novel of the year and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories. In 2000, the RSL published a volume...
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and even the beauty of war." Another mixed review was supplied by V. S. Pritchett who called Orwell naïve about Spain but added that "no one excels him...
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Stadt. Text by V. S. Pritchett, trans. Margot Berthold. Munich and Zurich: Droemer, 1964. New York Proclaimed. Text by V. S. Pritchett. Chatto & Windus...
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presented against a background of unvarying human evil, sin, and doubt. V. S. Pritchett praised Greene as the first English novelist since Henry James to present...
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List of literary initials (section V)
Kroeber Le Guin V. C. Andrews – Cleo Virginia Andrews V. S. Naipaul – Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul V. S. Pritchett – Victor Sawdon Pritchett W. C. Sellar –...
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The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories is V. S. Pritchett’s first collection of short fiction and marks the beginning of his professional career as a writer...
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was first published, Nineteen Eighty-Four received critical acclaim. V. S. Pritchett, reviewing the novel for the New Statesman stated: "I do not think...
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published the winning short story of the Royal Society of Literature's V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, Carys Davies' ‘'The Redemption of Galen Pike'’. The...
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almost hyperrealistic background." Shortly after its publication, V. S. Pritchett wrote: "In Salman Rushdie, the author of Midnight's Children, India...
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Never Happen and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by V. S. Pritchett published in 1945 by Chatto & Windus. The volume was republished by...
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and writer Adrian Bell, writer and literary editor Ronald Blythe, V. S. Pritchett, the authors Ralph Hammond Innes and Ruth Rendell all lived in the...
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List of English novelists (section V)
Alison Prince (1931–2019) Eric Pringle (1935–2017), children's fiction V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997) Philip Pullman (born 1946), His Dark Materials Barbara...
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stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history." V. S. Pritchett wrote in the New Statesman that the novel is "[t]he first work of genius...
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singer-songwriter (Spurgeon's House) Ben Preston John Pretlove Walter Pretty Sir V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer and critic John Pullinger Tilly Ramsay Colin Robbins...
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W. Somerset Maugham (redirect from W. S. Maugham)
servants and four gardeners. The judges for the inaugural award were V. S. Pritchett, C. V. Wedgwood and Cecil Day-Lewis. Among winners during Maugham's lifetime...
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