2012年1月2日星期一

Stars and heroes set for honours

A host of sports stars,Air purifier everyday heroes and celebrities, including a Birmingham-born actor and a poet from Worcestershire, are set to be recognised in the 2011 New Year Honours list.

David Harewood, best known for his roles as Nelson Mandela in the BBC's TV drama Mrs Mandela,magic cube and Captain Poison in the Holywood blockbuster Blood Diamond, has been awarded an MBE.

Having grown up in a council estate in Birmingham, the youngest of four children, Harewood went on to train at Rada. He cut his teeth playing roles in Minder and Casualty, before going on to star in the hit TV series Babyfather and in The Vice, as well as Fat Friends.

More recent roles have included Friar Tuck in the BBC's Robin Hood, and as Joshua in Doctor Who: The End of Time.

His onstage credits include Martin Luther King in Olivier-award winning play The Mountaintop, an imagined account of the civil rights activist's final evening of life, and as Othello in an acclaimed National Theatre production.

He has also starred in The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons, and Separate Lies,porcelain tiles written and directed by Julian Fellowes.

Also celebrating is Professor Geoffrey Hill, who has been awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Described as the greatest living poet in the English language when voted Oxford Professor of Poetry, the Worcestershire-born writer boasts poetry collections including Canaan , The Triumph of Love and Speech! Speech! .

Despite his success the poet has divided critics, some of whom say his writing is inaccessible and needlessly difficult.

The 79-year-old writer,high risk merchant account born to a working-class family in 1932, studied at Keble College, Oxford, before taking up academic posts at the University of Leeds, Cambridge and then at Boston University in the US.plastic injection moulding

Prof Hill, who is married to his second wife the librettist and ordained Anglican priest Alice Goodman, has received several awards and honours, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

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