‘You have created a continuity between the past and the present . . . ’

‘An award hard earned and well deserved – what you have given all of us readers is a body of work that stands as a record of literature and an introduction to authors and their writing, which otherwise would have faded into undeserved obscurity, familiar only to one or two dusty academics. You have created a continuity between the past and the present, that contributes to the furtherance of culture.’