Sentences with phrase «literary prizes»

His book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, published in 2010, has been an international bestseller and won many literary prizes.

The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs.

Morrison has won a host of literary prizes for her eight major novels, children's books and essay collections.

She is urging publishers to pledge to only publish work by female writers in that year, and she talked about the «gender imbalance that exists in publishing, in terms of reviews, top positions in publishing houses, literary prizes, etc..»

Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent might have missed out on the big literary prizes this year, but her tale of a 19th - century amateur naturalist on the trail of a mythical beast is the novel of the year for booksellers at the UK's largest book chain.

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.

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

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.

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Visit your favorite bookshop or the local library's website, explore book bestseller lists, check out the winners of major literary prizes, or rely on recommendations from your Goodreads friends.

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.

This week on BookMachine, we kicked things off with the The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller's «Promised Land» and 5 questions for Carolyn Jess Cooke, then looked at This week in literary prizes and the news that Today in tyrants: Hussein daughter seeks publisher for father's memoirs.

What you haven't spelled out is the way that ISBNs are still being used as a gatekeeping mechanism that narrows readers» access to the very best, most groundbreaking literature because many of the leading literary prizes define possession of an ISBN as their definition of publication for eligibility purposes.

Prestigious literary prizes are all reserved to those published by traditional publishers.

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

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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.

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.

He has won a number of literary prizes and has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times.

Over the years, Amos Oz's writings have earned him numerous literary prizes, including the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, Tel Aviv University's Dan David Prize, the Ovid Prize, and he has been considered as a candidate to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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

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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.»

Richard and Rebecca praised the virtues of small presses (which are doing wonderful things right now and regularly reaching the upper echelons of literary prizes) as a route into publication.

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.

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).

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.

It's interesting to see how our reader list overlaps (or doesn't) with The Millions list of books that have won the most literary prizes from 1995 to the present.

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!

Munro, 82, has already received many literary prizes for her realistic portrayals of the everyday lives of Canadian women.

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

Prizes are now given in fifteen categories (ranging from Best Novel to Best Fan Artist), voted for by the members of Worldcon — a very different model, considering that most literary prizes are selected by a judging panel made up of experts.

Many literary prizes totally ignore self - published works.

Do we need so many literary prizes?

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

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

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

Accompanied by extensive marketing campaigns, reporting about the major literary prizes can dominate the arts pages of the newspapers for weeks on end.

Chaired by: Rüdiger Wischenbart In Germany alone, there are supposed to be around 1,000 literary prizes, and it's hard to say how many such awards there are worldwide.

Criticism can be elitist; censorship can be elitist; educational programmes can be elitist; advocacy and propaganda can be elitist; literary prizes can be elitist; communities and clubs can be elitist; bookstores and websites can be elitist.

Such is the story behind «Room,» Lenny Abrahamson's film based on a novel by its scriptwriter Emma Donoghue, a tense, suspenseful and insightful book that was shortlisted for literary prizes.

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

A machine in Japan almost won a literary prize for a full length novel it wrote — which it chose to end with the sentence, «The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.»

He has declined a literary prize and delayed the publication of an upcoming memoir.

In 2002, Martel won the British Commonwealth's most prestigious literary prize, and a cultural phenomenon was birthed.

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.

Tierno Monénembo's «The King of Kahel» was originally published in France in 2008 and was the winner of the French literary prize, the prix Renaudot, which is awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published during the current year.

The novel starts at the end of their marriage, when «the wife» decides to divorce her husband on an airplane en route to an awards ceremony where he will accept a major literary prize.

In addition to memorializing and honoring Aura Estrada in his novel, Francisco Goldman also established a literary prize in 2008 in her name.