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John Barrington Wain (Stoke-on-Trent, 14 marzo 1925 – Oxford, 24 maggio 1994) è stato uno scrittore britannico.

Docente alla Oxford University dal 1973 al 1978 ed esponente degli Angry Young Men, fu autore di celebri romanzi quali Giù con la vita (1953), Un suicidio da non sprecare (1955), Il cielo più piccolo (1967) e della raccolta Poesie (1981).

Collegamenti esterni

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Wain, John, su Treccani.it – Enciclopedie on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
(EN) John Wain, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
(EN) John Wain, su IMDb, IMDb.com.

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Vincitori del Somerset Maugham Award

A. L. Barker (

1947) • P. H. Newby (

1948) • Hamish Henderson (

1949) • Nigel Kneale (

1950) • Roland Camberton (

1951) • Francis King (

1952) • Emyr Humphreys (

1953) • Doris Lessing (

1954) • Kingsley Amis (

1955) • Elizabeth Jennings (

1956) • George Lamming (

1957) • John Wain (

1958) • Thom Gunn (

1959) • Ted Hughes (

1960) • Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (

1961) • Hugh Thomas (

1962) • David Storey (

1963) • ex aequo Dan Jacobson (

) e John le Carré (

1964) • Peter Everett (

1965) • ex aequo Michael Frayn e Julian Mitchell (

1966) • ex aequo B. S. Johnson e Andrew Sinclair (

1967) • ex aequo Paul Bailey (

) e Seamus Heaney (

1968) • Angela Carter (

1969) • ex aequo Jane Gaskell e Piers Paul Read (

1970) • ex aequo Susan Hill, Richard Barber e Michael Hastings (

1971) • ex aequo Douglas Dunn (

) e Gillian Tindall (

1972) • ex aequo Peter Prince, Paul Strathern e Jonathan Street (

1973) • Martin Amis (

1974) • non assegnato (1975) • ex aequo Dominic Cooper e Ian McEwan (

1976) • Richard Holmes (

1977) • ex aequo Tom Paulin e Nigel Williams (

1978) • ex aequo Helen Hodgman e Sara Maitland (

1979) • ex aequo Max Hastings, Christopher Reid e Humphrey Carpenter (

1980) • ex aequo Julian Barnes, Clive Sinclair e Andrew Norman Wilson (

1981) • ex aequo William Boyd ( (

) e Adam Mars-Jones (

1982) • Lisa St Aubin de Terán (

1983) • ex aequo Peter Ackroyd, Timothy Garton Ash e Sean O'Brien (

1984) • ex aequo Blake Morrison, Jeremy Reed e Jane Rogers (

1985) • ex aequo Patricia Ferguson, Adam Nicolson e Tim Parks (

1986) • ex aequo Stephen Gregory, Janni Howker e Andrew Motion (

1987) • ex aequo Jimmy Burns, Carol Ann Duffy e Matthew Kneale (

1988) • ex aequo Rupert Christiansen, Alan Hollinghurst (

) e Deirdre Madden (

1989) • ex aequo Mark Hudson, Sam North e Nicholas Shakespeare (

1990) • ex aequo Peter Benson, Lesley Glaister e Helen Simpson (

1991) • ex aequo Geoff Dyer, Lawrence Norfolk e Gerard Woodward (

1992) • ex aequo Dea Birkett, Glyn Maxwell (

), Duncan McLean (

1993) • ex aequo Jackie Kay, A. L. Kennedy (

), Philip Marsden (

1994) • ex aequo Patrick French, Simon Garfield (

), Laura Thompson (

) e Kathleen Jamie (

1995) • ex aequo Katherine Pierpoint (

) e Alan Warner (

1996) • ex aequo Rhidian Brook (

), Kate Clanchy, Philip Hensher e Francis Spufford(

1997) • ex aequo Rachel Cusk (

), Jonathan Rendall, Kate Summerscale e Robert Twigger (

1998) • ex aequo Andrea Ashworth, Paul Farley, Giles Foden e Jonathan Freedland (

1999) • ex aequo Bella Bathurst e Sarah Waters (

2000) • ex aequo Edward Platt e Ben Rice (

2001) • ex aequo Charlotte Hobson e Marcel Theroux (

2002) • ex aequo William Fiennes, Hari Kunzru e Jon McGregor (

2003) • ex aequo Charlotte Mendelson, Mark Blayney e Robert Macfarlane (

2004) • ex aequo Justin Hill (

) e Maggie O'Farrell (

2005) • ex aequo Chris Cleave, Zadie Smith (

) e Owen Sheers (

2006) • ex aequo Horatio Clare e James Scudamore (

2007) • ex aequo Steven Hall, Gwendoline Riley, Adam Thirlwell (

), Nick Laird (

2008) • ex aequo Adam Foulds, Alice Albinia, Rodge Glass, Henry Hitchings, Thomas Leveritt, Helen Walsh (

2009) • ex aequo Jacob Polley, Helen Oyeyemi, Ben Wilsom (

2010) • ex aequo Miriam Gamble, Alexandra Harris, Adam O’Riordan (

2011) • non assegnato (2012) • ex aequo Ned Beauman, Abi Curtis, Joe Stretch, Lucy Wood (

2013) • ex aequo Nadifa Mohamed, Daisy Hildyard, Amy Sackville (

2014) • ex aequo Jonathan Beckman, Liz Berry, Ben Brooks, Zoe Pilger (

2015) • ex aequo Jessie Greengrass, Daisy Hay, Andrew McMillan, Thomas Morris, Jack Underwood (

2016) • ex aequo Edmund Gordon, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Martin MacInnes (

2017) • ex aequo Kayo Chingonyi, Fiona Mozley, Miriam Nash (

2018) • ex aequo Raymond Antrobus, Damian Le Bas, Phoebe Power, Nell Stevens (

2019) • ex aequo Alex Allison, Oliver Soden, Roseann Watt, Amrou Al-Kadhi (

2020) • ex aequo Akeem Balogun, Graeme Armstrong, Isabelle Baafi, Lamorna Ash (

2021) • ex aequo Stephanie Sy-Quia, Tine Cin, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Maia Elsner (

2022)

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Vincitori del Costa Book Awards

Miglior romanzo

Gerda Charles (1971) · Susan Hill (1972) · Shiva Naipaul (1973) · Iris Murdoch (1974) · William McIlvanney (1975) · William Trevor (1976) · Beryl Bainbridge (1977) · Paul Theroux (1978) · Jennifer Johnston (1979) · David Lodge (1980) · Maurice Leitch (1981) · John Wain (1982) · William Trevor (1983) · Christopher Hope (1984) · Peter Ackroyd (1985) · Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) · Ian McEwan (1987) · Salman Rushdie (1988) · Lindsay Clarke (1989) · Nicholas Mosley (1990) · Jane Gardam (1991) · Alasdair Gray (1992) · Joan Brady (1993) · William Trevor (1994) · Salman Rushdie (1995) · Beryl Bainbridge (1996) · Jim Crace (1997) · Justin Cartwright (1998) · Rose Tremain (1999) · Matthew Kneale (2000) · Patrick Neate (2001) · Michael Frayn (2002) · Mark Haddon (2003) · Andrea Levy (2004) · Ali Smith (2005) · William Boyd (2006) · Alison Louise Kennedy (2007) · Sebastian Barry (2008) · Colm Tóibín (2009) · Maggie O'Farrell (2010) · Andrew Miller (2011) · Hilary Mantel (2012) · Kate Atkinson (2013) · Ali Smith (2014) · Kate Atkinson (2015) · Sebastian Barry (2016) · Jon McGregor (2017) · Sally Rooney (2018) · Jonathan Coe (2019) · Monique Roffey (2020) · Claire Fuller (2021)

Libro dell'anno

David Lodge (1980) · Douglas Dunn (1985) · Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) · Christopher Nolan (1987) · Paul Sayer (1988) · Richard Holmes (1989) · Nicholas Mosley (1990) · John Richardson (1991) · Jeff Torrington (1992) · Joan Brady (1993) · William Trevor (1994) · Kate Atkinson (1995) · Seamus Heaney (1996) · Ted Hughes (1997) · Ted Hughes (1998) · Seamus Heaney (1999) · Matthew Kneale (2000) · Philip Pullman (2001) · Claire Tomalin (2002) · Mark Haddon (2003) · Andrea Levy (2004) · Hilary Spurling (2005) · Stef Penney (2006) · Alison Louise Kennedy (2007) · Sebastian Barry (2008) · Christopher Reid (2009) · Jo Shapcott (2010) · Andrew Miller (2011) · Hilary Mantel (2012) · Nathan Filer (2013) · Helen Macdonald (2014) · Frances Hardinge (2015) · Sebastian Barry (2016) · Helen Dunmore (2017) · Bart van Es (2018) · Jack Fairweather (2019) · Monique Roffey (2020) · Hannah Lowe (2021)

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