![]() I Saw A Man, was published by Faber & Faber in 2015. Skirrid Hill, The Hay Festival Poetry Medal and the Welsh Book of the Year for Pink Mist and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year. Resistance, was translated into 10 languages and adapted into a film. Malvern College launched the George Sayer Fellowship in his honour in 2018. Mr Sayer, who went on to pen a biography of Lewis, is said to have persuaded Tolkien not to burn his manuscript of The Lord of the Rings when the author was losing faith in the novel. He lived in the town and would often entertain his friends JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis there. ![]() ![]() George Sayer was Head of English at Malvern College from 1949 until his retirement in 1974. Owen Sheers was due to be awarded Malvern College’s George Sayer Fellowship in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic meant the presentation had to be postponed. ![]() An award-winning poet and author is to receive a fellowship named in honour of a former English teacher and close friend of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. ![]()
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