Desmond Elliott
Desmond Elliott (24 Disamba 1930 - 12 Agusta 2003) mawallafin Burtaniya ne kuma wakilin adabi. Ya fara aikinsa da gidan wallafe-wallafen Macmillan kafin ya ci gaba da samun nasa kamfanin buga littattafai, Arlington Books. A cikin sana'ar da ta shafe kusan shekaru 60 yana da alhakin gano yawancin marubuta da suka ci gaba da zama mafi kyawun tallace-tallace ciki har da Penny Vincenzi [1] da Jilly Cooper.[2]
Sana'a
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]An haifi Desmond Elliott a London a ranar Kirsimeti Hauwa'u 1929. Bayan mutuwar mahaifinsa, an sanya shi a gidan marayu na Royal Masonic a Dublin, Ireland yana da shekaru 10. Ya sami ilimi sosai kuma ya sami gurbin karatu zuwa Kwalejin Trinity, Dublin, duk da haka, ya yanke shawarar tafiya Ingila a 1947 yana da shekaru 16, tare da kawai £ 2 da wasiƙar gabatarwa daga editan The Irish Times . [3]
Elliot ya fara aiki a matsayin ɗan ofis don Macmillan Publishers, kafin ya shiga Hutchinson (mawallafi) sannan Michael Joseph (mawallafin) . Bayan da Max Reinhardt (mawallafin) ya kore shi ya karɓi diyya £ 1,000 da tayin aiki daga Sidney Bernstein, na ITV Granada - wanda kuma yana da tunani na biyu. Yin amfani da ragowar diyya, ya kafa a matsayin wakili mai zaman kansa a cikin 1960 kuma ya kafa littattafan Arlington.
Sadaukar da kai da sanin kasuwancinsa ya sanya Elliott ya zama daya daga cikin mazajen da suka yi nasara a fagensa. [4] Elliot ya kasance mabuɗin don ƙirƙirar jerin manyan marubutan litattafai masu nasara kamar [5] Candida Lycett Green, Penny Vincenzi, [1] da Lynda Lee-Potter . Ya kuma gabatar da Tim Rice ga Andrew Lloyd Webber a matsayin abokin ciniki na farko. Mawallafinsa suna mutunta kuma suna ƙauna, a cikin kalmomin Candida Lycett Green, Elliott ya kasance "sihiri".
salon rayuwa
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Desmond Elliott ya yi rayuwarsa tare da verve, yana shan shampagne kawai, kuma yana kula da Fortnum & Mason a matsayin "kusurwoyin" na gida [6] Ya taɓa ketare Tekun Atlantika akan Concorde kawai. [7] Ofishinsa yana Mayfair, kuma yana da gidaje a St. James's da kan Park Avenue.
Kyautar Desmond Elliott
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Kafin mutuwarsa a shekara ta 2003, Desmond Elliott ya ba da shawarar cewa ya kamata a saka hannun jari a fannin adabinsa a cikin amintaccen sadaka wanda zai ba da lambar yabo ta adabi "don wadatar da ayyukan sabbin marubuta". [8] An kafa lambar yabo ta Desmond Elliott na shekara-shekara a cikin 2007, tare da ba da kuɗi £ 10,000 ga marubucin wani labari na farko da aka buga a Burtaniya. [9] Elliott ya gaya wa marubuci Sam Llewellyn littafinsa mai kyau shine "giciye tsakanin farauta taska da tsere" [10] kuma littafin da ya ci nasara dole ne ya nuna zurfin da faɗi tare da labari mai ban sha'awa. [11]
Nassoshi
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Man Alive, BBC.
- ↑ "Curtis Brown". www.curtisbrown.co.uk.
- ↑ "Desmond Elliott"[dead link] (obituary), The Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2003.
- ↑ "Foyles". Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
- ↑ "Desmond Elliott Prize Website". Archived from the original on 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
- ↑ Guy Dammann, "Tom Rob Smith hot favourite for Desmond Elliot prize", The Guardian, 22 May 2008.
- ↑ "Literary Festivals". Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ↑ Katie Allen, "Shukla, Connolly, Kelman on Desmond Elliott longlist", The Bookseller, 11 April 2011.
- ↑ Richard Lea, "Anjali Joseph wins Desmond Elliott prize", The Guardian, 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Charlotte Williams, "Seren, Chatto and Doubleday on Desmond Elliott shortlist", The Bookseller, 24 May 2012.
- ↑ "Harper Collins". Archived from the original on 2011-10-21. Retrieved 2012-06-07.