New Year Honours 2010
Anthea BELL OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
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“For services to Literature and to Literary Translations.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
For services to Literature and to Literary Translations.
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“For services to Literature and to Literary Translations.”
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 226 times in the New Year Honours List 2010 — about 23% of the list.
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152 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
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3,514 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2010
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2010). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2009.
Location (Cambridgeshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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