Congratulations to AL Kennedy - she has just been awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize by the city of Dusseldorf. The University press release is here.

Prof Emma Mason has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small research grant to support her symposium on the poet Elizabeth Jennings in October.

Congratulations to AL Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Writing Programme, on the longlisting of her most recent novel, Serious Sweet, for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Reviews include The Observer, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. Her professional website is here.

Congratulations to John Gilmore - the Leverhulme Trust have approved a grant for his project on "Oriental poetry, Latin Scholarship and the European Englightenment: The case of William Jones." More details to follow.

Congratulations to Mark Storey , Commendee for WATE 2016.

Professor Christina Hughes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) and chair of the WATE judging panel, commented, "The Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence highlight the efforts all our teaching staff make to provide outstanding learning environments for our students. We are justifiably proud of this year’s winners and commendees, all of whom exemplify Warwick’s commitment to fostering our students’ successes."

David Morley’s Selected Poems, The Invisible Gift (Carcanet), has been chosen as the latest winner of The Poetry Society’s prestigious prize, the Ted Hughes Award for 2015.

Congratulations to Maureen Freely - her translation of Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptas (Bloomsbury) has been longlisted for the FT/Oppenheimerfunds Emerging Voices award 2016. "Often surreal, occasionally funny, full of awe for humanity and its potential, and never anything but ambitious, Reckless suggests that for Turkey, and for all of us, the truth about what we're capable of isn't very pleasant. The real battles, Toptas shows us, are in our hearts, where the outcome is all too often a crude form of justice." TLS

Rob Daniel and Jack McGowan have both won Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates Who Teach. WATE winners are nominated through a process that gives students, peers, and members of your department the chance to recognise teaching excellence in the PGR community. They were selected from over 100 nominees. Many congratulations.

Congratulations to Qiao Qingquan, PhD student with Dr Ross Forman, who has won an award of $1,700 to attend the School of Theory and Criticism at Cornell this summer.