Your Summer Reads Competitions 2010

All Summer Reads competitions are now closed.

Competition 1
Norfolk: A Literary County

The winner of this competition and six signed Summer Reads is Brunhild Hall who correctly answered all ten questions below.

Questions:
1 - Charles Dickens used Great Yarmouth as a key location for which of his novels?
Answer: David Copperfield

2 – Which 17th century polymath is celebrated with a statue and piece of contemporary art on Hay Hill in Norwich?
Answer: Sir Thomas Browne

3 - In 1395 who wrote Revelations of Divine Love, the first book published in English by a woman?
Answer: Julian of Norwich

4 - Which three UEA Creative Writing MA graduates have won the Booker Prize?
Answer: Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Anne Enright

5 – In which year was Norwich the first municipality to adopt the Library Act?
Answer: 1850

6 - Thomas Erpingham, whose name adorns a set of Gates to the Norwich Cathedral, features in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Henry V

7 - Thomas Paine, author of the enlightenment treatise The Rights of Man,  was born in which Norfolk town?
Answer: Thetford

8 – "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a shame."
This is from the last paragraph of which seminal 19th century children’s novel?
Answer: Black Beauty

9 – Stephen Fry attended which Norwich College?
Answer: City College Norwich

10 – WG Sebald, who founded the British Centre for Literary Translation in 1989, recounted his journeys around East Anglia in which of his critically acclaimed works?
Answer: The Rings of Saturn

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Competition 2

Summer Reads Reviews

The winner of this competition and six signed Summer Reads is Anne Hird who reviewed The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson.

T&Cs:

1. The competition is open to all UK residents, except those closely related to a WCN staff member or anyone involved in the competition.
2. Entry to the competition is by sending a book review of no more than 150 words on any one of the Summer Reads books.
3. To enter, send an email with review attached as well as name, address and contact telephone number to readers@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk with the subject heading: Summer Reads Reviewing  Competition. Postal entries also accepted by sending entry to Reviewing Competition, Writers’ Centre Norwich, 14 Princes Street, Norwich, NR3 1AE.
4. The winner will be judged by Writers’ Centre Norwich staff based on quality of review.
5. Winning entrant will be notified by Monday 13th September.
6. All entries must be received no later than midday on Wednesday 21st August.
7. The prize consists of signed copies of each of the six Summer Reads books and a signed copy of the Harvill Secker Limited Centenary Edition of Disgrace .
8. This prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered.
9. Writers’ Centre Norwich reserves the right to use any review submitted in promotional or evaluative material. Copyright remains with entrant.
10. WCN reserves the right to cancel the competition or any of these rules at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, or if circumstances arise outside of its control.
11. WCN will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering this competition, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone.
12. These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.