Editing Lord Dunsany (section)

==Memberships, awards and honours==
Lord Dunsany was a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Britain) |first=Royal Society of Literature (Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6vOAAAAMAAJ&q=dunsany |title=Essays by Divers Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom |date=1944 |publisher=H. Mulford, Oxford University Press |language=en}}</ref> a member and at one point President of the Authors' Society, and likewise President of the Shakespeare Reading Society from 1938 until his death in 1957, when he was succeeded by [[John Gielgud|Sir John Gielgud]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shakespearereadingsociety.co.uk/history/ |title=The Shakespeare Reading Society – History |last=shakespeare |website=shakespearereadingsociety.co.uk |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref>

Dunsany was also a fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1958 |title=Obituary: Lord Dunsany |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=124 |issue=1 |page=147 |jstor=1790632 |issn=0016-7398}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| date = 1928|title = Meetings: Session 1927-28 | journal = The Geographical Journal | volume = 71 | number = 1 | pages = 111–112 | jstor = 1783108 }}</ref> and was an honorary member of the Institut Historique et Heraldique de France. He was initially an Associate Member of the Irish Academy of Letters, founded by Yeats and others, and later a full member. At one of their meetings, after 1922, he asked [[Seán Ó Faoláin]], who was presiding, "Do we not toast the King?" Ó Faoláin replied that there was only one toast: to the Nation; but after it was given and O'Faolain had called for coffee, he saw Dunsany, standing quietly among the bustle, raise his glass discreetly, and whisper "God bless him".<ref>O'Faolain, ''Vive Moi!'', pp. 350 ''n'', 353</ref>

''The Curse of the Wise Woman'' received the Harmsworth Literary Award in Ireland.

Dunsany received an honorary doctorate, D.Litt., from [[Trinity College Dublin]], in 1940. 

In 1950, he was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] by Irish [[PEN International|PEN]], citing his fiction, poetry, and support for younger writers. However, after a negative appraisal by [[Per Hallström]], the Nobel Committee did not consider him for the prize,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Andersson |first1=Martin |title=Lord Dunsany and the Nobel Prize |journal=The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature |date=6 October 2023 |volume=11 |issue=Bealtaine 2018 |pages=23–29 |jstor=48536176}}</ref> which was won [[1950 Nobel Prize in Literature|that year]] by [[Bertrand Russell]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/literature/nomination.php?action=show&showid=1127 |title=Nomination Database – Literature |website=www.nobelprize.org}}</ref>