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...DIED. DOM MORAES, 65, Indian poet whose work drew on his childhood in Mumbai and his years of bohemian dissipation in London; in Mumbai. While an undergraduate at Oxford, Moraes became the youngest-ever winner of Britain's prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first collection of poetry, A Beginning, which he published at age 19. Despite moving back to India in 1979, Moraes never mastered an Indian language. He recently told an interviewer: "I don't think I belong anywhere...
JAMES HILTON is rapidly establishing a place for himself in the forefront of English novelists. Two of his latest works, "Good-by Mr. Chips," and "Lost Horizon" are national best-sellers, the latter having been awarded the Hawthornden Prize for the current year...
Married. Lord David Cecil, 30, author of The Stricken Deer (biography of Poet William Cowper, which won the English $500 Hawthornden prize in 1930); and Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of Critic Desmond MacCarthy; in London. Lord David is the younger son of the Marquess of Salisbury...
...England. Authoress Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near Knole Castle, but she is a lady of other worlds as well, likes traveling with her husband in Ecuador, Persia, any out-of-the-way place. She has also written: Twelve Days, The Land (Hawthornden Prize Poem). Seducers in Ecuador, King's Daughter, The Edwarditins, Knole and the Sackvillcs...
...Professor of English literature at Tokyo University, served in the War with the Royal Sussex Regiment. Great & good friend of Poets Robert Graves, Robert Nichols, with them he lived in the Boar's Hill poet's colony (near Oxford) just after the War. Poet Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize in 1922. Other books: The Waggoner, The Shepherd, Masks of Time, Retreat, Undertones...