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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">of interest? - no need to reply - pass on as
you wish - cheers - Chris <br><br>
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<div align="center"><b>The Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize 2012<br>
</b>The £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize (sponsored by her daughter, Elizabeth,
Duchess of Buccleuch) supports uncommissioned first-time writers working
on a biography.<br>
This year’s judges are: the journalist and broadcaster <b>Michael
Crick</b> (author of <i>Scargill and the Miners</i>, <i>Jeffrey Archer:
Stranger than Fiction</i> and <i>The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex
Ferguson</i>);<b> Neil McKenna</b> (<i>On the Margins</i>, <i>The Silent
Epidemic </i>and <i>The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde</i>);<b> </b>and<b>
Carole Seymour-Jones</b> (<i>Beatrice Webb: A Life</i>, <i>Painted
Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot</i> and <i>A Dangerous Liaison: Simone
de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre</i>)<b>.<br>
</b> Applicants should submit a proposal of no more than 20 pages,
including a synopsis and 10-page sample chapter (double-spaced, numbered
pages), CV and a note on the market for the book and competing
literature, to the prize administrator: Anna Swan, email: anna at
annaswan dot co dot uk or by post to 119A Fordwych Road, London NW2 3NJ.
Enquiries: 020 8452 4993.<br>
The deadline for entries is 1 August 2012. Entry fee: £10 (cheques
payable to the Biographers’ Club). For further details and mandatory
entry form visit
<a href="http://www.biographersclub.co.uk/">www.biographersclub.co.uk</a>
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The winner will be announced at the prize dinner in late October (date
TBC)<br>
[Only the shortlisted entrants will be contacted]<br>
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