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Deborah Jane Coltman Rogers, Baroness Berkeley of Knighton (6 April 1938 – 30 April 2014) was a British literary agent, who founded her own agency in 1967. Biography.
The Deborah Rogers Foundation honours the memory of the late literary agent Deborah Rogers by supporting emerging talent in the publishing world. It offers two awards: The Writers Award for unpublished writers and The David Miller Internship Programme for rights and agenting.
May 2, 2014 · THE untimely death of the legendary literary agent Deborah Rogers has stunned the publishing world. She was a friend and supporter of countless brilliant novelists, beloved wife of the composer...
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In 2023 judges Abdulrazak Gurnah (chair), Claire Adam and Annalena McAfee judged a longlist of nine entries, and pronounced Neil Rollison as the winner of the 2023 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for his novel, The Dead Don ’t Bleed. The two runners up were Michelle Alipao Chikaonda for The Dying Embers of Our Setting Sunand Alicia McAuley ...
Sharlene Teowas the winner of the inaugural 2016 DRF Writers Award for her novel Ponti. Pontiwas published by Picador (UK) and Simon and Schuster (US) in 2018. It was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award and Edward Stanford Award, and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. It has been translated into eleven languages. Sharlene said: “Winning the Deb...
Deepa Anapparawas the winner of the 2018 DRF Writers Award for her novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line.Published by Chatto & Windus (UK) and Random House (US) in 2020, it has been translated into 22 languages and was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a Literary Supernova”. Named as one of the best books of the year by The New York Time...
‘Pemi Agudawas the winner of the 2020 DRF Writers Award was for her novel, The Suicide Mothers. The novel, and a collection of short stories, Ghostrootshas been acquired by Virago (UK), WW Norton (US) and Masobe in Nigeria. Ghostrootswill be published in the US on 7 May 2024 and in the UK on 6 June 2024. The Suicide Mothers will be published in 202...
Mathelinda Nabugodiwas the winner of the 2021 DRF Writers Award for The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, a work of non-fiction to be published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and Knopf (US) in 2024. Mathelinda said: ‘Winning the DRF Writers Award is such a wonderful validation of my work. I am so gratified to know that ...
May 9, 2014 · Deborah Rogers was a leading literary agent and played a pivotal role in shaping Britain’s reading habits over the past half-century.
May 1, 2014 · The book world has been stunned by the sudden death of Deborah Rogers, co-founder of Roger, Coleridge & White, and a woman who was midwife to some of contemporary fiction’s most significant...
April 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Deborah Rogers, after which this Foundation was set up in her memory. So this seems the appropriate moment to celebrate the positive impact that the DRF has made to our industry by supporting emerging talent in the publishing world.
