Niven, Alastair
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Name (Latin)
Niven, Alastair
Date of birth
1944-02-25
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Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- ALCS database, 13 Feb. 2007(Niven, Alastair, b. 25 Feb. 1944)
- Discourses of empire and commonwealth, 2016:title page (edited by Alastair Niven) back cover (Alastair Niven, former Principal of Cumberland Lodge, Director of Literature at the British Council and at the Arts Council of Great Britain, President of English PEN, editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, judge of the Booker Prize and the Man Booker Prize, and chair of the advisory committee for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, is associate director of the Iraq Britain Business Council)
- The Commonwealth writer ... 1976.
- His Truth within fiction, c1987:t.p. (Alastair Niven) prelim. p. 3 (b. 1944; M.A., Ph. D.)
- Springer, H.W. The commonwealth of universities, 1988:t.p. (Alastair Niven) cover p. 4 (Director of Literature at the Arts Council of Great Britain; Director General of the Africa Centre in London, 1978-1984)
Wikipedia description:
Alastair Neil Robertson Niven (25 February 1944 – 26 March 2025) was an English literary scholar and author. He wrote books on D. H. Lawrence, Raja Rao, and Mulk Raj Anand, and over the years served as Director General of The Africa Centre, Director of Literature at the Arts Council of Great Britain and of the British Council, a principal of Cumberland Lodge, and president of English PEN. In 2021, Niven was chosen as the recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, awarded for exceptional contribution to literature.
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