Sentences with phrase «literary prize»

On the other hand a proliferation of international literary prizes in the region in recent years has led to a noticeable increase in the number of fiction titles published.

Then he realized she was the girlfriend of the judge of a major literary prize.

You don't have to be a household name, and you don't have to be the winner of literary prizes.

Many literary prizes totally ignore self - published works.

A Manchester - based author whose debut novel was initially rejected by British publishers has won one of the world's richest literary prizes.

Unlike some books chosen for reading in school, it also resonates with young readers: In 2000, it won the five main literary prizes given by French students!

Do literary prize nominations make you more interested in a book?

If this is your goal, you should also be aware of research that shows literary prizes can make the book less popular and most literary novels will sell fewer than 5,000 copies.

As more authors choose to go it alone, literary prize administrators will soon be playing catch - up.

It's a great privilege — a joy, really — to feel I've made a contribution as a freelance editor to books that have topped the bestseller lists or garnered literary prizes.

Finally the doors to the publishing industry have been thrown open to you — big advances, bestseller lists and literary prizes await!

I too tend to avoid literary prize winners unless I am already familiar with, and enjoy, the author's work.

Even if I wanted to be considered for this notable literary prize, how could I top these gems?

However, at this point, most prize - winning books have been traditionally published, and many literary prizes aren't even open to indie authors.

Why I picked it up: This author has been nominated for a number of literary prizes, so I had to see why people are so excited about her writing.

If this is your goal, you should also be aware of recent research that shows literary prizes can make the book less popular.

Malaysia's Tan Twan Eng won Asia's most prestigious literary prize for The Garden of Evening Mists.

It won the most prestigious literary prize in France, Le Prix Goncourt, as well as the Académie Française's Prix de Littérature.

Recognized as the leading literary prize in the Arab world, the program honors prose fiction and is supported by the Booker Prize Foundation in London.

The honor is an annual literary prize for prose fiction in Arabic, a program run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi.

Manchester Metropolitan University's Cheshire Campus have launched the inaugural MMU Novella Award, a new literary prize for an unpublished novella of between 20,000 and 40,000 words.

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best pieces published in small presses over the previous year.

An overview of all the research we publish on the biggest literary prizes in Canada, as well as a comprehensive historical list of all the nominees and winners for those prizes.

Deservingly, The Sisters Brothers won many prestigious Canadian literary prizes including the Governor General Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Each year The New Mexico Book - Co-op awards literary prizes in more than 20 categories.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) is an annual literary prize run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the TCA Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

Two Irish authors have been shortlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award - the world's most lucrative literary prize for a single novel published in English.

Swift, a multiple award - winning author who's collected many of the biggest British literary prizes for his previous books, is working in a lighter vein here.

The British author, known for getting literary prize nods for novels like Brick Lane, has always been willing to try something new with each work.

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best «poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot» [1] published in the small presses over the previous year.

The major Canadian literary prize, the Giller, was won in 2010 by Johanna Skibsrud's «The Sentimentalists».

Holloway also called on more literary prizes to accept indie authors, following in the path of the Folio Prize.

The James Tiptree Jr. literary prize for science fiction or fantasy published during 2014 that expands or explores our understanding of gender was announced over the Easter weekend.

CHESTERTOWN, Md. — A student who writes through the perspective of insects won the nation's largest literary prize for undergraduates on Friday.

Moreover, Slovenia hosts over two dozen important major events dedicated to books and awards some 20 different literary prizes.

Indeed, the previous literary prizes were split into two categories, namely: famous and translated novelists and self published and new authors.

Well, on Wednesday 14th March we're talking all things literary prizes with The TLS.

He received numerous honors, including the prestigious Germany literary prize, the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt; the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize; and honorary doctorates from many universities for one or another of his achievements.

I can see this one competing for some of 2012's biggest literary prizes alongside Hilary Mantel's Bringing Up the Bodies.

And finally, on the Publishing Perspectives Stage in Hall 6.0 in the early afternoon, Frankfurt Book Fair Director Juergen Boos will be chatting to Gaby Wood about why she thinks The Man Booker Prize attracts such a flurry of international media attention, and why literary prizes are so hotly - contested nowadays.

Harvor asks each interviewee mostly the same questions and so I found myself pondering issues such as whether literary prizes reduce our ability to think in a critically complex fashion (they do, but the benefits outweigh the problems).

Despite winning one of the most prestigious literary prizes around, Mc...

Our clients have won innumerable literary prizes, including the Man Booker five times, the Carnegie, the Costa, the Guardian First Book, the William Hill, the Arthur C. Clarke, the Geoffrey Faber, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse, the John Llewellyn Rhys, the Somerset Maugham, the James Tait Black Memorial, the Orwell Prize and many others.

Perhaps it had been at a PEN do, or when they'd been shortlisted for the same literary prize.

It won major Australian literary prizes including the 1996 National Fiction Award and was described by the Times Literary Supplement as «one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.»

She was saved from a scheduled lobotomy when a volume of her short stories won a national literary prize.

Haynes went on to point out that it's an established fact that ``... book prizes favour narratives with male characters at their centre» and that «literary prizes tend to favour books by men about men.»