The People’s Book Prize
Award Ceremony - July 20th 2011
Voting for the 36 finalists is
taking place now till 20th July 2011. The
results will be announced at The 2nd Award
Ceremony on 20th July 2011 and the top
authors of the three genres will be awarded
The People’s Book Award for Fiction,
Non-Fiction and Children’s Literature. The
Beryl Bainbridge Award for First Time
Author, introduced last year to honour the
late author who was a founding patron of
TPBP, will also be awarded at the Ceremony.
About TPBP
On 1st June 2011, The People’s Book Prize
was one year old. This unique nationwide
book competition is
voted for exclusively by the public and so
it is the public who have a direct say in
choosing Britain's next top authors.
About The Awards Ceremony
The first Awards Ceremony took
place on 21st July 2010 when out of 36
finalists, 15 shortlisted were announced and
the top authors of the three genres
(fiction, non-fiction and children) were
awarded The People’s Book Prize. A special
award, The Beryl Bainbridge Award for First
Time Author was introduced to honour the
late author who was a founding patron of the
prize
The black tie dinner will start
with a reception at 7 p.m. followed by
dinner.
It will be held at The Worshipful Company
of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, Ave
Maria Lane, London EC4M 7DD (near St. Paul’s
Cathedral)
www.stationers.org at 7 pm on
Wednesday 20th July 2010. It will follow a
similar format to the first Award Ceremony
which has been described as elegant,
prestigious and an occasion to look forward
to in the publishing social calendar.
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Why The Stationers?
Because The Worshipful Company of Stationers
and Newspaper Makers is a prestigious
Institution with the most links to
literature: 600 years of service to
publishing and related industries, the
Company continue to forge a link from the
past to the future.
It is befitting therefore that The People’s
Book Prize, like Shakespeare, chooses this
illustrious institution to hold its first
Awards Ceremony.
About the venue
The Worshipful Company of
Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of
London’s older Livery Companies with its
origins in the fourteenth century. In 1403,
a guild was formed whose members included
text-writers and illuminators, booksellers,
bookbinders and suppliers of parchment, pens
and paper. They set up fixed-position stalls
in St Paul’s Churchyard, and were therefore
referred to as ‘Stationers’, as opposed to
those operating as itinerant vendors. Change
followed the introduction of printing in
England (1476). Permitted publications were
‘entered’ in the Hall registers.
A Royal Charter was awarded in 1557
giving the guild the power to control
printing in all its aspects. The
Foundation’s involvement in training and
education began when printing houses
presented their apprentices at Stationers’
Hall during their first year for a fee of
sixpence. In 1861, the Company opened the
first Stationers’ School just off Fleet
Street and then, with an expanding school
roll, built a larger school in Hornsey that
opened in 1894. Over the years, the school
established a high reputation as an
excellent grammar school, but closed in 1984
following a re-organisation within its Local
Education Authority. However, from the sale
of the land on which it stood, the Company
created an educational endowment fund which
was later subsumed into the Stationers’
Foundation. The Foundation is responsible
for overseeing the Company’s charities and,
from the outset, one of the most important
aspects of the its activities has been to
encourage training and education in the
graphic arts world, which today includes the
wider digital media world.
The Hall was burnt down in the Great Fire
and rebuilt in 1673. It was damaged in a
terrible air raid in October 1940; the Court
Room ceiling was destroyed but the fine
carved overmantel survived the Blitz. The
stained glass windows depicting historical
worthies were donated by Court Assistants
(1880s).
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