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His death was cryptically announced by means of the Guardian’s prize crossword, partly set by his colleague John Halpern ("Paul"), on 10 June 2023. [12] Several old clues composed by "Rufus" were incorporated. This echoed the paper’s late solver Araucaria announcing his cancer diagnosis in a crossword grid.
The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annually recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. [1] It was conferred upon the author of the book by The Guardian newspaper, which established it in 1965 and inaugurated it in 1967 ...
These books have won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award for authors recognising a fiction book for children or young adults, published in the United Kingdom (for many years restricted to British and Commonwealth authors). For biographies of winning authors see Category: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize ...
Margaret Irvine (20 January 1948 – 24 June 2023) [1] [2] was a British crossword compiler. She created hundreds of cryptic crosswords between 2006 and 2023 mostly for The Guardian under the pseudonym Nutmeg. She also set puzzles in The Times, The Church Times and, as Mace, in the New Statesman.
The Guardian Fiction Prize was a literary award sponsored by The Guardian newspaper. [1] [2] Founded in 1965 by the Guardian's Literary Editor, W.L. Webb, and chaired by him until 1987, it recognized one fiction book per year written by a British or Commonwealth writer and published in the United Kingdom. The award ran for 33 years before being ...
Hints and the solution for today's Wordle on Thursday, February 6.
The Monkey Puzzler – 80th birthday tribute from The Guardian; Obituary – from The Guardian; Hoggart, Simon (26 November 2013). "Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies". The Guardian. Profile – Araucaria's crosswords from 1999 to 2013 in The Guardian; John Graham on Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4 podcast
Allowing a one-off contribution from a non-regular setter was deeply unusual for The Guardian, whose crosswords are normally produced by one of about 25 regular setters. [21] Pemberton, again writing as Sphinx, went on to publish further cryptic crosswords in The Guardian. One appeared in 2018, during the airing of the fourth series of Inside No. 9