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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1917
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Date of death - 2003 |
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Prize-winning poet, playwright and children's author Charles Causley was born in Launceston, Cornwall, on 24 August 1917, and was educated at Launceston College and Peterborough Training College.
He began writing plays in the 1930s including Runaway (1936) and The Conquering Hero (1937), and served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, an experience he wrote about in Hands to Dance: Short Stories (1951).
After the war he trained to be a teacher, teaching at the grammar school in Launceston, and became literary editor of two BBC radio magazines, 'Apollo in the West' and 'Signature' (1953-6).
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In 1954 and 1966 he was awarded Travel Scholarships by the Society of Authors. He served on the Poetry Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1962-6 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967.
He later won a Cholmondeley Award (1971) and the Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award (USA) in 1990. In 2000 he was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize.
Charles Causley was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1958, and a CBE in 1986. He held honorary degrees from Oxford and Exeter, where he was also Honorary Fellow in Poetry.
Charles Causley died on Tuesday, 4 November 2003, aged 86. |
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