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 |
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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. | |||||
* | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
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. | |||||
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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 | ||||||