Eric Gregory Award

Description

Sobre o Eric Gregory Award

O Eric Gregory Award é um dos prémios mais prestigiados para jovens poetas no Reino Unido, administrado pelo Society of Authors. Estabelecido em 1967, em memória de Eric Gregory, um poeta e crítico literário que faleceu prematuramente, o prémio visa apoiar e encorajar poetas emergentes que demonstrem um talento excecional e um potencial significativo.

Requisitos e Critérios

A idade limite para os candidatos é de 30 anos, o que o torna um trampolim crucial para carreiras literárias incipientes. Os prémios são geralmente concedidos a um número de poetas a cada ano, com valores que variam, mas que são significativos o suficiente para permitir que os poetas se dediquem mais tempo à escrita.

Os critérios de seleção enfatizam a qualidade da poesia apresentada, a originalidade, a profundidade temática e a mestria técnica. Os candidatos devem ser cidadãos britânicos ou residentes no Reino Unido há pelo menos três anos. A seleção é feita por um painel de juízes experientes, geralmente poetas e académicos reconhecidos, que avaliam os manuscritos submetidos.

Impacto e Laureados

Ao longo das décadas, o Eric Gregory Award tem sido um indicador precoce de talento, com muitos vencedores a tornarem-se figuras proeminentes na poesia britânica contemporânea.

Nomes como Seamus Heaney (embora ele tenha recebido o prémio antes de se tornar mundialmente famoso), Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, e Simon Armitage, entre muitos outros, figuram na lista de antigos galardoados, atestando a importância do prémio na descoberta e validação de novas vozes poéticas.

Relevância e Impacto na Carreira

A relevância do prémio reside não só no reconhecimento financeiro e prestígio que confere, mas também na visibilidade que proporciona aos poetas, abrindo portas para publicações, leituras e outras oportunidades profissionais. A natureza do prémio, focada em poetas jovens, é particularmente importante num campo que muitas vezes demora a reconhecer e a apoiar novos talentos.

Legado e Significado

O Society of Authors desempenha um papel vital na promoção da escrita e dos direitos dos autores no Reino Unido, e o Eric Gregory Award é uma das suas iniciativas mais emblemáticas e de maior impacto. A competição é feroz, e ser selecionado entre tantos candidatos talentosos é uma conquista notável.

O prémio não se limita a um único vencedor, mas sim a um grupo de poetas que demonstram um mérito excecional, o que reflete uma abordagem mais inclusiva e de apoio ao desenvolvimento poético. A história do prémio está intrinsecamente ligada à evolução da poesia britânica no século XX e XXI, servindo como um barómetro da vitalidade e diversidade da cena poética jovem. A longevidade e a consistência do prémio, juntamente com o calibre dos seus laureados, solidificam a sua posição como um dos pilares do reconhecimento literário para poetas emergentes no Reino Unido.

Winners

2023
Richard Olney

Richard Olney --

2022
Richard Needham

Richard Needham --

Richard Francis Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey, Knight, PC (born 29 January 1942) usually known as Sir Richard Needham is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1977 he used the courtesy title of Viscount Newry and Mourne

2018
Richard L. Evans

Richard L. Evans --

Richard Louis Evans (b. March 23, 1906, Salt Lake City, Utah - November 1, 1971) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1953 - 1971), the president of Rotary International (1966 - 1967), and the writer, producer, and announcer of Music and the Spoken Word for forty-one years (1930 - 1971)

2016
Rosemary Konner Steinbaum

Rosemary Konner Steinbaum --

2012
Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan --

Richard Anson Jordan (July 19, 1937 - August 30, 1993) was a Golden Globe-winning Harvard-educated American stage, screen and film actor. He was a long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and appeared in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan's Run, Les Miserables, Raise the Titanic!, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Succe$s, The Hunt for Red October and Gettysburg. He died of a brain tumor in 1993

2011
Richard M. Mathews

Richard M. Mathews --

2010
Robin Quivers

Robin Quivers --

Robin Ophelia Quivers (born August 8, 1952) is an American talk show host and Howard Stern's long-time primary co-host on his morning radio show

2009
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman --

United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)

2009
Richard Guggenheimer

Richard Guggenheimer --

2008
Richard Forsyth

Richard Forsyth --

2006
Richard Kehl

Richard Kehl --

2005
Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace --

2004
Richard Moss

Richard Moss --

2003
Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter --

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916-October 24, 1970) was an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize-the former for History and the latter for General Non-Fiction-as well as Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (1944), The American Political Tradition (1948), and The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). Hofstadter became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus" and 21st century scholars continue to admire his books and essays for the grace of his writing, the depth of his insight, his use of the past to illuminate contemporary issues, and his ability to simultaneously engage a scholarly and a popular audience

2002
Richard Darman

Richard Darman --

2002
Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm --

Richard Douglas "Dick" Lamm is an American politician and lawyer. He served three terms as Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975-1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996

2002
Robin Renwick

Robin Renwick --

Robin William Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton KCMG, (born 13 December 1937), is a former diplomat and Labour member of the House of Lords

2002
Rose Dorothy Freeman

Rose Dorothy Freeman --

2001
Richard Cecil

Richard Cecil --

Richard Cecil (born London, England November 8, 1748; died Hampstead, England August 15, 1810) was a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the 18th and 19th centuries

2001
Richard D. Rosen

Richard D. Rosen --

1996
Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies --

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not

1995
Roscoe Pound

Roscoe Pound --

Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - June 30, 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator

1994
Peter James

Peter James --

1994
Richard Diran

Richard Diran --

1991
Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail --

1990
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

1990
Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Montalbán --

Ricardo Montalbán was an actor.

1988
Richard Gere

Richard Gere --

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. A prototypical leading man of romantic and dramatic films, he first became famous during the 1980s, and has since managed to retain his status

1987
Rory horgan-gaul

Rory horgan-gaul --

1985
Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell --

1984
Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr.

Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr. --

1984
Ricardo A Scott

Ricardo A Scott --

Ricardo A. Scott is the one from Trench-Town Jamaica who created and coined the word Reggae and was responsible for the name original Wailing Wailers.

1984
Richard Dawkings:

Richard Dawkings: --

1981
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

Reverend Oliver G. Wilson --

1981
Ricard

Ricard --

1981
Robin Norwood

Robin Norwood --

1981
Rosanne Barr

Rosanne Barr --

1980
Richard Armour

Richard Armour --

Richard Willard Armour was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

1980
Richard Bently

Richard Bently --

1980
Ronald David Laing

Ronald David Laing --

Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 - 23 August 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness - in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental disfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Often associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, he himself rejected the label as such, as did certain others critical of conventional psychiatry at the time

1979
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

1978
Richard Burton

Richard Burton --

Richard Leslie Burton is a former English cricketer.

1973
Rob Brown

Rob Brown --

Rob Brown is an American actor.

1972
Peter de Jager

Peter de Jager --

1972
Ronald Knox

Ronald Knox --

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English priest and theologian.

1968
Robert

Robert --

United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)

1967
Peter Gray

Peter Gray --

Peter Gray, was a Scottish writer on life contingencies.

1966
Anna Mary Robertson Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses --

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)

1966
Rmy de Gourmont

Rmy de Gourmont --

1965
Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow --

1965
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi --

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi born 25 November 1941 is a spiritual leader and founder of the spiritual movements RAGS International and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.

1962
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price --

Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters