How far that lightning will strike audiences is going to depend on telling the westernising Ogarev from the slavophile Aksakov, the anarchist Bakunin from the literary critic Belinsky (played with febrile bravura by Will Keen in the plays' outstanding performance).

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The British literary critic and scholar was joined on the judging panel by authors Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks.

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The education secretary highlighted the influence of ED Hirsch, the US educator and literary critic.

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Tributes have flooded in for the British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens who has died at the age of 62.

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In his latest novel he describes the supposed murder of an eminent literary critic, who happens to be Jewish, by a disgruntled author.

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Literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi, who led the judging panel, said Tan's novel had "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".

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Arnold Rampersad. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Arnold Rampersad for his work as a biographer and literary critic.

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In suggesting between the lines that Ruskin should be read not as a critic or theoretician but as a creative writer, a literary artist, Mr Hilton makes compelling sense of his idiosyncratic and eclectic oeuvre.

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