Sentences with phrase «many 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

Do we need so many literary prizes?

Many literary prizes totally ignore self - published works.

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.

In 2011 he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, a literary prize for a body of work.

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

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

Award, a literary prize that honors science fiction and fantasy writing that explores issues of gender.

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!

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.

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.

He won China's major literary prize, the Mao Dun in 2010 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.

Remember our big picture: bestseller, literary prize, a smile from Mom, a moment of delicious revenge?

This literary prize serves to prove that.

He won Finland's most prestigious literary prize, the Finlandia Prize, in 2002 for his book Juoksuhaudantie (Trench Road).

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.

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.

Bestseller, literary prize, a smile from Mom, a moment of delicious revenge are outcome goals and for someone thinking about writing - a-book they're Bad News.

A nomination for a literary prize?

Shadow judging You'll know by now that the Book and Brew book club loves a literary prize and we jumped at the chance of working with The Reading Agency on this one.

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.

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).

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

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.

BWA, as far as I can gather from a bizarre message from one of its executives here, sees itself as much as a training organisation as a literary prize, not that I've seen this -LSB-...]

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.

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.

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.»

Will Hilary Mantel cart off yet another literary prize for Wolf Hall?

What does it take to get a literary prize named after you?

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

It is a literary prize.

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Winning for her final poetry collection, written in the last weeks of her life, Dunmore is only the second posthumous winner in the literary prize's history