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John Wain


(John Barrington Wain)
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Includes the names: J Wain, John Wain, Wain John, J Ed: Wain, John Barrington Wain, Introduced by John Wain.

Awards: Whitbread (1982), SoA (1958)  see all
 
Novels
   Hurry On Down (1953)
     aka Born in Captivity
   Living in the Present (1955)
   The Contenders (1958)
   A Travelling Woman (1959)
   Strike the Father Dead (1962)
   The Young Visitors (1965)
   The Smaller Sky (1967)
   A Winter in the Hills (1970)
   Visit at Tea Time (1977)
   The Pardoner's Tale (1978)
   Lizzie's Floating Shop (1981)
   Young Shoulders (1982)
     aka Free Zone Starts Here
   Where the Rivers Meet (1988)
   Comedies (1990)
   Hungry Generations (1994)
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Collections
   Mixed Feelings (poems) (1951)
   A Word Carved On a Sill (poems) (1956)
   Nuncle (1960)
   Weep Before God (poems) (1961)
   Death of the Hind Legs (1966)
   Letters to Five Artists (poems) (1969)
   Life Guard (1971)
   Selected Stories of Thomas Hardy (1975) (with Thomas Hardy)
   Selection (1977)
   King Caliban and Other Stories (1978)
   Poems, 1949-79 (poems) (1980)
   Poetry of Dylan Thomas (1982) (with Dylan Thomas)
   Open Country (poems) (1987)
   Selected Stories (1989)
   Two Worlds of Ernst (1991)
   The Twofold (poems) (1998)
   Selected Poems and Memoirs of John Wain (2000)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Wildtrack (1965)
   The Shape of Feng (1972)
   Feng (1975)
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Anthologies edited
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 

Awards
1982 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : Young Shoulders
1958 Somerset Maugham Award : Preliminary Essays

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