British literature

British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The largest part of this literature is written in the English language, but there are also separate literatures in the Welsh language, Scottish Gaelic, Scots and other languages. Northern Ireland is the only part of Ireland still part of the United Kingdom and it possesses literature in English, Ulster Scots and Irish. Irish writers have also played an important part in the development of English-language literature.

Literary prizes

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the isles include Rudyard Kipling (1907), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1932), T.S. Eliot (1948), Bertrand Russell (1950), Winston Churchill (1953), William Golding (1983), Seamus Heaney (1995) and V. S. Naipaul (2001).

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Nobel Prize in Literature - Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 1925 - John Galsworthy - 1932 - T.S. Eliot - 1948 - Bertrand Russell - 1950 - Winston Churchill - 1953 - William Golding - 1983 - Seamus Heaney - 1995 - V. S. Naipaul - 2001

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Literary prizes for which writers from the United Kingdom are eligible include:

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• Booker Prize
• Commonwealth Writers Prize
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Whitbread Awards
• Orange Prize for Fiction
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry