was his event. All the literary lions were there, figures from the ghost of your BERNSTEIN . Literary prize. writer’s Eng-Lit degree. There are now about six major This year the first prize went to literary awards each year for fic­ Hilda Bernstein, a refugee from tion, but none until now was given Africa, who wrote a book about for unpublished work. her experiences of white dissent in . Clive Sinclair, charismatic ruler that bipartite country. of Sinclair Reserch, has stepped No other prize was intended, into the gap with an award of but such was the standard of the £5,000. The award is in one sense entries that Clive shelled out three restrictive, however: only works of other prizes: £2,000 for the run­ current social or political signifi­ ner-up, and two consolation prizes cance need be submitted. of £500. WORLD CAMPAIGN against military and nuclear collaboration with South Africa P O B o x 2 Lindeberg Caard Oslo 10 N orw ay Tel (02) 30 13 4 5 Cables A ntiaparth eid O slo Telex 72314 A AM N 2 ? i . : I U cK R » i □ For your information l _ ,__________________________ j | For your action j | Please keep us in form ed about developments regarding this matter including any information tha t you come across | <Xa~$ *~il— A a^ c*.gt-o-g .^v-ge-cx q ^ ( /J C-____ i/\CXu^AA^lr- J \£&*— \ y , r r . tj i j i i j U ^ jV ' ^ ® ^ (ZHSE^S '-jc^£az^ Congratulations from all of us / ' V ' KW* r V HILDA BERNSTEIN, the South prize’s criteria for high literary African women’s and black m erit combined iwith contem p­ rights’ campaigner, has won the orary social and political rele­ first annual £5,000 Sinclair vance,” explained Clive Sincleir. Prize for Fiction for her novel. To be published in the New "Death is Part of the Process." Year by Sinclair Browne, Clive Sinclair, head of spon­ “Death is Part of the Process” sors, Sinclair Research, made is 'based otra Ms. Bernstein’s own the award at am evening recep­ experience of political conflict tion in London recently. in South Africa. The judges were Frank Ker- Am outside view of people mode, David Caiute, Richard and organisations that plan and Hoggart, Mervyn Jones and carry out acts of sabotage, it Polly Toynbee. deals with the tensions of act­ "Hilda Bernstein's winning ual events and the complex | novel completely fulfilled the moral dilemmas tlhey provoke. Congratulations from all of us HILDA BERNSTEIN, the South prize’s criteria for high literary African women’s and black merit combined iwirth contemp­ rights’ campaigner, has won the orary social and political rele­ first annual £5,000 Sinclair vance," explained Clive Sincleir. Prize for Fiction for her novel, To be published in the New "Death is Part of the Process." Year by Sinclair Browne, Clive Sinclair, head of spon>- “Death is Part of tie Process" sors, Sinclair Research, made is 'based on ;Ms. Bernstein’s own the award at am evening recep­ experience of political conflict tion in London recently. in South Africa. The judges were Frank Ker- Ani outside view of people mode, ODavid Oa/ute, Richard and organisations that plan and Koggart, Mervyn Jones and carry out acts of sabotage, it Polly Toynbee. deals with the tensions of act­ "Hilda Bernstein/s winning ual events and the complex novel completely fulfilled the moral dilemmas they provoke. Sinclair Prize for Fiction FOR any aspiring authors among' DAW N s reader­ ship, the National Book League is looking for un­ published novels for entry in this year's Sinclair Prize for Fiction. The prize, which is worth £5,000, will be awarded to the author of the best full-length novel which is not only of great literary merit, but also of social or political significance. Sponsored by Sinclair Re­ search of Cambridge and administered by the National Book League, the prize was first awarded in 1982 to Hilda Bernstein for Death is Part o f the Process. Read­ ers may be interested to know that Frances Bern­ stein, a Research Assis­ tant at Central Office and a contributor to DAWN, is Hilda Bernstein’s daughter. The final date for entries is 31st July, arid entry forms are available from Bar­ bara Buckley, National Book League, Book House. 45 East Hill, Lon­ don SW18 2QZ. Please include a stamped, addressed envelope. /U s D lfo j) £5,000 awari fo r n o v e l Artist and writer Hilda Bernstein was last night awarded the first prize of £5.000 in the new Sinclair Prize for Fiction for her novel Death is Part of the Process. Mrs Bernstein, who lives in Roth well Street, Primrose Hill, drew on her personal experience of women’s and black rights campaigns in South Africa in writing the novel. PERSON OF THE DECADE 8 C O M P U T IN G F E B R U A R Y 17 1983 PERSON OF THE DECADE Clive Sinclair puts his micro power into a million hands Mass appeal has turned Clive Sinclair into a million-selling winner. Alan Burkitt traces Sinclair from his start as a j ournalist on Practical Wireless to a future which may see him emerge as a motor car magnate ix months before the first Studies by the company in stake at over£l 15 million. But headed it until 1979 when rial College London was spon­ and computers in the past and copies of Computing West Germany, where sales riches are not new to him: he problems with current pro­ sored by the National Re­ a s, it is h o p ed , the Microvision Slanded on the doormats are running at almost 100,000 bought his first Rolls-Royce ducts— low-cost competition search Development Cor­ will be. of the UK’s dp community, a a year, found that mothers long ago from the rewards of and poor reliability — as well poration (NRDC). Then it In the second half of this former electronics journalist were often the driving force his calculator business. as difficulties in developing came to nothing, but Sinclair year we are likely to see the called Clive Sinclair set the behind the purchase, con­ The astonishing success of new ones finally over­ picked it up in the early 1970s unveiling of the results of the extraordinarily low price of cerned that their children his computers and his newly whelmed the operation with and again won backing from com pany’s collaboration with £79 for his first calculator. should find out about com­ acquired wealth have brought massive losses. the N R D C . ICL. They are working on a A decade of inflation and puters. In the UK, a Sinclair- him fame, with requests to First the NEB came in, ‘The NEB tried to sell off desktop work station, des­ hyperinflation means that sponsored competition in appear on television and give mainly to back the early the tv side of Sinclair tined to be connected to a price would be worth precise­ Woman's Own collected his views on the state of the Microvision venture, and Radionics to the Japanese,’ he digital telephone exchange ly £299 in to d ay ’s money. 50,000 entries. world generally. But he looks then the NEB decided the told Com puting. ‘I found out such as the Mitel SX2000 Though the calculator, called Sinclair has only started. uncomfortable in this role and company should get out of purely by accident.’ which ICL also hopes to sell. It the Sinclair Executive, was ‘We think the personal com- even in private can rarely be consumer products and con­ He protested, and after an will combine telephone and thought revolutionary, it provoked to expand on his centrate on instruments. computer, using the flat could do no more than add, views. ‘The NEB had diametrical­ screen tv tube to provide a subtract, multiply and divide Profiting from One of the many cliches ly opposed views to me about ‘The NEB visual display. eight-digit numbers. products with often repeated about Sinclair the way we should go,’ said The next Sinclair, product, F or the sam e £299 in 1983 it are that his politics are ‘Crom­ Sinclair. ‘The television side tried to sell internally codenamed the is possible to buy both Sinc­ a high creative wellian’, a description usually was potentially profitable; in­ the tv side to ZX83, is likely to be some- lair’s Spectrum and ZX81 attributed to Fortune m aga­ struments were profitable but thingsimilar, but portable and personal computers and still content zine. But Fortune (M arch 8 d u ll.’ the Japanese’ including a floppy disk drive have enough money for the 1982) was simply quoting an But Sinclair is both persis­ and without the telephone. flat-screen Microvision when puter’s going to be a one-per- unnamed company executive tent in pursuit of his ideas and unsuccessful attempt to find a ‘It will open a new m arket,’ it comes on the market this home product,’ said Sinclair and the meaning is vague. stubborn when opposed. The UK buyer, the NEB let the commented Nicholas. Obser­ sum m er. aide Bill Nichols. So far, Sinclair disagrees with the beginnings of the personal new Sinclair Research take vers point to the pricey and But the days of the Sinclair market penetration in the UK conventional view that a computer venture date back a over the project. The planned heavy O sborne 1, and suggest calculator are long gone.