Literature Awards (England) 1960s

A table recording the direct funding given to writers by the Arts Council from 1966. For a more detailed breakdown about the funding of publishers, literary magazines, organisations and festivals, as well as spending by the Scottish and Welsh Arts Councils, see the individual Annual Reports.

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Year	Grant Type	Recipient Name	Amount (£)	Total (£)	Literature Department Total (£)	Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid (£)	Notes
1965/66					9,443.00	3,910,000.00
	Literature Bursary			2,700.00
		Basil Bunting	300.00				Poet.
		John Heath Stubbs	750.00				Poet and translator.
		Elizabeth Jennings	750.00				Poet.
		Harold Massingham	300.00				Poet.
		David Wevill	300.00				Poet and translator.
		Andrew Young	300.00				Poet.
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1966/67					51,550.00	5,700,000.00
	Maintenance Grant			6,575.00
		Louis Battye	300.00				Fiction writer.
		Hope L. Bourne	200.00				Writer and painter.
		Alan Burns	250.00				Experimental writer.
		Vincent Cronin	500.00				Historical, cultural and biographical writer.
		Clifford Dyment	500.00				Poet, critic and journalist.
		Zulfikar Ghose	300.00				Fiction writer, poet and essayist.
		Wilson Harris	125.00				Poet, novelist and essayist.
		Michael Holroyd	500.00				Biographer.
		B.S. Johnson	800.00				Experimental writer and filmmaker.
		Cressida Lindsay	500.00				Poet and novelist.
		A.L. Lloyd	500.00				Music writer.
		Kate O’Brien	750.00				Novelist and playwright.
		Samuel Selvon	500.00				Fiction writer.
		Kathleen J. Smith	100.00
		Peter Stadlen	300.00				Pianist, musicologist and critic.
		R.W. Thompson	250.00
		Ruth Tomalin	200.00				Journalist, novelist and children’s author.
	Literature Bursary			17,950.00
		Paul Ableman	800.00				Playwright and novelist. Application sponsored by Philip Toynbee.
		Jack Beeching	750.00				Poet, novelist and non-fiction writer.
		Basil Buntin	1000.00				Poet.
		Philip Callow	800.00				Novelist, biographer and poet. Application sponsored by Michael Foot.
		Kay Dick	800.00				Novelist, publisher and biographer. Application sponsored by Christine Brooke-Rose.
		Maureen Duffy	800.00				Poet, novelist, playwright and activist. Application sponsored by Julian Mitchell.
		Harry Fainlight	750.00				Poet.
		William Gerhardi	800.00				Novelist and playwright. Application sponsored by Olivia Manning
		Frederick Grubb	750.00				Poet and author of A Vision of Reality: A Study of Liberalism in 20th century verse (1965).
		Leslie Halward	800.00				Application sponsored by Walter Allen.
		Aiden Higgins	800.00				Application sponsored by William Sansom.
		Veronica Hull	800.00				Novelist, author The Monkey Puzzle (1958). Application sponsored by Karl Miller.
		Francis King	1,200.00				Poet, fiction writer, reviewer and former British Council employee. Application sponsored by Olivia Manning.
		John McGahern	800.00				Novelist, short story writer and essayist. Application sponsored by Ian Hamilton.
		Vernon Scannel	1,200.00				Poet and fiction writer. Application sponsored by Edmund Blunden.
		Elizabeth Smart	800.00				Poet and novelist. Application sponsored by Brigid Brophy.
		Fred Urquhart	800.00				Short story writer. Application sponsored by Alan Ross.
		Anthony C. West	800.00				Novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Application sponsored by Storm Jameson.
		David Wevill	750.00				Poet and translator.
		Antonia White	1,200.00				Novelist and translator. Application sponsored by Martin Turnell.
		Hugo Williams	750.00				Poet, journalist and travel writer.
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1967/68					61, 479.00	7,200,000.00
	Maintenance Grant			10,575.00
		John Atkins	200.00				Playwright, poet and novelist.
		George Barker	500.00				Poet.
		Louis Battye	75.00				Writer. Work deals with experience of physical disability.
		J.C.M. Baynes	300.00				Military historian and former soldier.
		Vincent Brome	400.00				Novelist, dramatist, biographer.
		Peter de Polnay	350.00				Fiction writer.
		Patric Dickinson	500.00				Poet, translator and playwright. Application sponsored by Roy Fuller.
		Janet Dunbar	300.00				Author of A Prospect of Richmond (1966).
		George Faludy	400.00				Hungarian poet, writer and translator, also known as György Faludy
		Eva Fige	400.00				Novelist, memoirist, critic and feminist.
		April Fitzlyon	300.00				Translator, biographer and historian.
		Lawrence Hanson	250.00
		Paul Ignotu	400.00				Hungarian current affairs writer, also known as Pal Ignotus.
		B.S. Johnson	400.00				Experimental novelist, poet and literary critic.
		Richard Jones	500.00
		Christopher Kininmonth	300.00				Travel writer.
		Brendan Lehane	300.00				Writer.
		Shena Mackay	200.00				Novelist.
		Rollo Myers	250.00				Music writer.
		Irene Nicholson	250.00				Author of Mexican and Central American Mythology (1967).
		Frank Norman	700.00				Novelist and playwright. Application sponsored by C.H. Rolph.
		Ann Quinn	300.00				Experimental writer.
		Garth St Omer	350.00				St. Lucian novelist published by Faber. Application sponsored by Kenneth Ramchand.
		Samuel Selvon	500.00				Trinidad-born novelist.
		Paul Smith	500.00				Irish playwright and novelist.
		Balint Vazsonyi	250.00				Hungarian musician, activist and journalist.
	Literature Bursary			19,800.00
		John Baker	1,200.00				Application sponsored by Kenneth Allsop.
		Edward Brathwaite	1,200.00				Barbardian poet and scholar. Application sponsored by C.B. Cox.
		Edward Candy	600.00				Pseudonym of Barbara Alison Boodson Nevill. Application sponsored by Olivia Manning.
		Lettice Cooper	1,200.00				Application sponsored by Bonamy Dobrée.
		C.F.F Fytton	1,200.00
		Karen Gershon	1,200.00				German-born writer and poet.
		Zulfikar Ghose	1,200.00				Novelist, poet and essayist.
		Peter Greave	600.00				Novelist.
		Patricia Hutchins	600.00				Illustrator, broadcaster and writer of children’s books. Application sponsored by G.S. Fraser.
		Patrick Kavanagh	1,200.00				Irish poet and novelist.
		Richard Murphy	1,200.00				Poet.
		Kathleen Nott	1,200.00				Poet, novelist, critic, philosopher and editor. Application sponsored by Maurice Cranston.
		John Petty	1,200.00				Application sponsored by Neville Braybrooke.
		Gilbert H. Phelps	1,200.00				Educationist and novelist. Application sponsored by Lord Snow.
		Paul Ritchie	600.00				Novelist. Application sponsored by Robert Baldick.
		Jean Rhys	1,200.00				Novelist, born and raised in Dominica. Application sponsored by Sonia Orwell.
		Anthony Rossiter	600.00				Poet and painter. Application sponsored by Rosamond Lehmann.
		Christina Stead	1,200.00				Australian novelist and short story writer. Application sponsored by Cynthia Nolan.
		Julia Strachey	1,200.00				Novelist. Application sponsored by John Lehmann.
	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
1968/69					66,289.00	7,750,000.00
	Writers’ Grant			16,150.00
		Michael Anthony	500.00				Caribbean author and historian.
		Cliff Ashby	500.00				Poet and novelist.
		Martin Bell	500.00				Poet and prominent member of ‘The Group’, an informal group of poets who met in London from mid-1950s to 60s.
		Patrick Boyle	500.00				Novelist.
		Frederick Bradnum	300.00				Radio dramatist, producer and director. Created plays and dramatisations of novels for the BBC.
		Vincent Brome	400.00				Novelist, dramatist and man of letters.
		Christine Brooke-Rose	500.00				Experimental novelist and critic.
		Alan Burns	250.00				Experimental writer.
		A. S. Byatt	750.00				Novelist and poet.
		John Coleman-Cooke	500.00
		Deryck Cooke	600.00				Musician, musicologist and broadcaster.
		Vincent Croni	300.00				Historical, cultural and biographical writer.
		Peter de Poinay	150.00				Fiction writer.
		Anne de Roo	500.00				New Zealand children’s writer.
		G.E. Evans	200.00				Schoolteacher, writer and folklorist.
		Eva Fige	500.00				Novelist, memoirist, critic and feminist.
		Carol Filby	250.00
		Gerald Hamilton	500.00				Memoirist and critic.
		Aiden Higgins	500.00
		Susan Hill	500.00				Fiction and non-fiction writer.
		Thomas Hinde	1,000.00				Novelist.
		Thea Holme	500.00				Actor and writer.
		Paul Ignotus	500.00				Hungarian current affairs writer, also known as Pal Ignotus.
		A.S. Jasper	100.00
		Michael Kettle	500.00
		Shena Mackay	500.00				Novelist.
		John McGahern	500.00				Novelist, regarded as one of the most important Irish writers of the latter half of the 20th-century,
		Derek Patmore	500.00				Writer and war correspondent.
		Arnold Rattenbury	500.00
		Peter Redgrove	500.00				Poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle.
		Dominic Reeve	100.00
		Alexander Trocchi	500.00				Novelist.
		Simon Trussler	750.00
		Nicholas Wollaston	1,000.00				Application sponsored by Philip Toynbee.
	Literature Bursary			18,500.00
		George Barker	2,000.00				Poet, identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes.
		David Black	500.00				Poet and psychoanalyst.
		Alan Burns	2,000.00				Experimental writer. Application sponsored by B.S. Johnson.
		John Ginger	2,000.00				Application sponsored by Gavin Award.
		Rayner Heppenstall	2,000.00				Novelist, poet, diarist, and radio producer for the BBC.
		Elizabeth Jennings	2,000.00				Poet.
		B.S. Johnson	2,000.00				Experimental writer and filmmaker. Application sponsored by Peter Buckman.
		V.S. Naipaul	3,500.00				Fiction and non-fiction writer, born in Trinidad and Tobago. Application sponsored by Francis Wyndham.
		Leslie Norris	500.00				Poet and short story writer.
		Michael Orsler	2,000.00				Application sponsored by Malcolm Bradbury.
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1969/70					73,923.00	8,200,000.00
	Writers’ Grant			39,450.00
		Mea Allan	500.00				Journalist and author of the novel Change of Heart (1943)
		Alfred Alvarez	1,000.00				Poet, novelist, essayist and critic who published under the names A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.
		Paul Bailey	1,000.00				Novelist, critic and biographer.
		A.L. Barker	750.00				Novelist and short story writer.
		Jack Beeching	750.00				Poet, novelist and writer of non-fiction.
		Ted Child	500.00
		Barry Cole	750.00				Poet.
		J. Anthony Connor	750.00
		Peter Dale	750.00				Poet and translator.
		Duke R. Dobing	500.00
		Clifford Dyment	500.00				Poet, literary critic, editor and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics.
		Eva Figes	750.00				Novelist, memoirist, critic and feminist.
		Henry Graham	400.00				Poet.
		W.S. Graham	500.00				Poet.
		Bryn Griffiths	900.00
		Elizabeth Hamilton	1,000.00
		Ian Hamilton	1,000.00				Journalist and mystery writer.
		Wilson Harris	750.00				Guyanese poet, novelist and essayist.
		David Harsent	750.00				Poet and crime novelist.
		Phoebe Hesketh	500.00				Poet.
		Bevis Hillier	500.00				Art historian, author and journalist.
		Christina Hobhouse	500.00
		Molly Holden	500.00				Poet.
		Norman Jackson	750.00
		Paddy Kitchen	1,000.00				Novelist and co-founder of the Artists’ Licensing and Collecting Society. Application sponsored by Elizabeth Thomas.
		Lois Lang-Sims	750.00
		Maureen Lawrence	750.00
		Dinah Livingstone	1,000.00
		Colin McInnes	1,000.00
		Christopher Middleton	750.00				Poet and translator, particularly of German literature.
		J.S. Mitchell	500.00
		Angus Wolfe Murray	1,000.00
		Tom Pickard	500.00				Poet and documentary film maker; an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.
		Ann Quinn	1,000.00
		Thomas Raworth	400.00				Poet, publisher, editor and teacher.
		Piers Paul Read	1,000.00				Novelist, historian and biographer.
		Barry Reckord	750.00				Jamaican playwright.
		Peter Redgrove	750.00				Poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle.
		James Robson	750.00
		Paul Rotha	750.00
		Bernice Rubens	1,000.00				Novelist.
		Paul Scott	1,000.00				Novelist, playwright, and poet.
		Ann Shead	750.00
		Penelope Shuttle	750.00				Poet.
		Randolph Stow	750.00				Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.
		Ruth Tomalin	500.00				Journalist, novelist, and children’s author.
		Martin Turnell	1,000.00
		Barry Unsworth	750.00				Historical fiction writer.
		Peter Vansittart	750.00				Novelist. Also wrote historical studies, memoirs, stories for children and three anthologies: Voices from the Great War, Voices 1870-1914 and Voices of the Revolution.
		John Wain	1,000.00				Poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as ‘The Movement‘.
		David Walder	750.00				Author, military historian and Conservative party politician.
		Elizabeth Webb	1,000.00