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Post by andydecker on Oct 30, 2010 10:51:21 GMT
Nice one. Can´t see this happening in our latitudes. James Herbert, the man who wrote the Rats. Great! Must have been a lively conversation after the award. On a more somber note, this makes one think. Are there any successors in the last twenty years? New names who have a similar success in the genre?
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Post by marksamuels on Oct 30, 2010 12:53:11 GMT
Not recent of course, but Machen was given a civil list pension, which was seen as something similar:
The official description is that it is an appointment and high honour akin to Order of Merit or Companion of Honour given for distinguished service to Great Britain in the arts, literature and science. It is paid at the discretion of the Queen and voted in by Parliament.
Can't think of any other gongs to horror writers. Hang on: wasn't MR James a Companion of Honour?
Mark S.
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Post by jonathan122 on Oct 30, 2010 14:18:43 GMT
Can't think of any other gongs to horror writers. Hang on: wasn't MR James a Companion of Honour? Mark S. He was, but I'm pretty sure it was for his day job rather than his ghost stories! I can think of a few writers who received honours and also wrote horror (de la Mare, Henry James, Kipling), but they usually wrote other things as well. Charles Birkin was a baronet, but sadly that was hereditary...
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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 31, 2010 11:06:45 GMT
I got into trouble here yesterday regarding James Herbert and the context I put his OBE. I did not decry his work, but merely said that if he is the only Horror writer to gain such an Establishment award, then it is 'travesty'. I have apologised about this but one interpretation of what I said was, I feel, that many Horror writers deserve such an accolade, not only JH. That is the travesty.
Having said that, any such accolade for the Horror genre is worth praising.
But having said that, I sympathise with those who do not think this is a burning issue because such an Establishment accolade is worthless, at least dependant on one's political point of view. Whether one supports the Establishment, the Royalty, the Government...
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