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1. In whose works were these important 'localities': Fernhill; Laugharne; Rhosili; Cwmdonkin Park; Swansea Bay?
2. Where did Dylan Thomas have his 'Boathouse'?
3. Who was the author of such successful novels as 'Memento Mori' (1959); 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' (1960); 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961); 'The Girls of Slender Means' (1963)?
4. Which of these Wilsons was the 24-year-old author of a successful analysis of the post-existentialist 'Outsider' in literature?
5. Which of these authors might with some reason be called the 'voice of London's suburbia'?
6. Who wrote the successful play 'Educating Rita', about a low-brow woman who takes an interest in poetry and subsequently gets involved in an affair with a deteriorating alcohol-addicted professor of literature?
7. Who reigned over post-war British poetry at Faber and Faber, Russell Square, while Dylan Thomas reigned over the pubs around Charlotte Street till he died in 1953?
8. Who wrote an eleven-volume sequence of novels in which we follow Lewis Eliot from lower middle class Leicester to Cambridge, then London and finally 'the Corridors of Power'?
9. Which of these Theatre Companies first had Aldwych, then the Barbican, as its homebase?
10. The patriotic 'Festival of Britain' in 1951 and the widely-televised Coronation of QEII (1953) were followed by a 'shocking' performance of a play by John Osborne 'Look Back in Anger'. Who was its hero?
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