Sentences with phrase «first literary award»

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The award - winning British novelist became the first literary Bad Mother for her memoir A Life's Work, which chronicled the «abasements» of pregnancy and «the sacking and slow rebuilding of every corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed.»

Best known for our award - winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos, digital - first long stories and essays, and a lively literary blog.

The first horror movie to win an Academy Award, the literary adaptation «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» was edgy, stylish and ahead of its time.

The novel was a semifinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, the spring 2013 winner of the ForeWord Firsts contest sponsored by ForeWord Reviews, and was just named a literary fiction category semi-finalist in the Kindle Book Review's 2014 Kindle Book Awards.

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

Enter here for a chance to win one of six recently released, signed, first edition paperbacks — award - winning literary nonfiction that chronicles t

Additionally, the John Leonard Prize for excellence in first books was received by Phil Klay for his debut, Redeployment, and Toni Morrison was honored with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contribution to the literary world.

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

A reader's guide to the fall's big literary awards; The Women of Brewster Place novelist Gloria Naylor has died; London theater will present the first stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels; and other news.

* A professional IndieReader review * Inclusion in IR's «first - look» deal with Book Ends Entertainment, an LA - based boutique literary management and production company * An IndieReader «All About the Book» feature * Stickers pronouncing the book an «IndieReader Discovery Awards» winner

Fatima Farheen Mirza talks about her first novel, A Place For Us, which is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

Between them Clare's clients have won or been nominated for nearly every major literary prize in the UK including the Man Booker Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers» Best First Novel Award, and the Orwell Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal.

Masters Review's Short Story Award For New Writers offers a first prize of $ 2000 plus online publication and review of your work by three literary agents.

It won the 2005 Saga Award for Wit and the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize (Lewycka was the first female winner of the prize which is awarded at the Hay literary festival and includes having a pig named after the novel!)

As Booklist celebrates a half - century of YA, I want to thank those first members of the Printz committee for their work to define literary merit in the context of YA literature, and I want to celebrate the enduring genius of the award's first winner, whose books continue to challenge and inspire kids — and 22 - year - olds.

A Place for Us (June 12, 2018) is her debut novel and is the first literary work acquired by award - winning actress and producer Sarah Jessica Parker as editorial director of her newly launched imprint, SJP for Hogarth.

(Perhaps there's even a literary gene in the family, since her aunt and namesake, Blanche Colton Williams, was the first editor of the O. Henry Awards in 1918, and her cousin, Wirt Williams, was a bestselling novelist.)

It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and an American prize, the Julia Child Award for «literary food writing».

First time novelist Stef Penney shook the British literary world last year when she won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread Award) with The Tenderness of Wolves, not least because she has never been to Canada and carried out all her research in the British Library.

Our Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards was, I truly think, the first major literary award to acknowledge that because publishing has changed, the best book may not be a hardcover, it may not be even printed (digital only), and it may not even be traditionally published, all of which we got flack for at the time (though most others soon followed).

- Times Literary Supplement (UK) «A beguiling literary hybrid, highly deserving of its Guardian First Book Award longlisting.»

Award - winning literary magazine publishing work by winners and finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Genius Grant, National Book Award; first timers; and poets from 5 continents.

«Incidentally, the novel was nominated for a national literary award as best first novel by a Canadian author, but disqualified when I had to disclose I was not a Canadian citizen.

Best known for our award - winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos, digital - first long stories and essays, and a lively literary blog.

Rizzoli, Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and the Italian startup 20lines today launched BigJump, the first literary contest devoted to thrillers, romance and historical novels where readers will contribute to award a prize to participating novels.

Tamar was the winner of the first annual student literary prize awarded by David Zwirner Books and 826NYC, a literacy nonprofit that the gallery began supporting in 2006.