Sentences with phrase «prestigious literary awards»

Last year, he won the Man Booker International Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, for his novel «A Horse Walks into a Bar.»

The Man Booker Prize winners get bragging rights to one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English - speaking world.

In those eight years we have also seen most of the negativity directed to self - publishing disappear, to the point where indie books regularly make the major bestseller lists, win prestigious literary awards and sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

Banville, a prolific and critically regarded Irish novelist whose previous works have won some of the most prestigious literary awards, is a mesmerizing prose stylist, and that's where he triumphs here.

Her latest book, A Story of Becoming, has won 18 prestigious literary awards, including gold medals with Reader's Favorite, Nautilus, and Literary Classics.

The Man Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards.

England's most prestigious literary award» the Booker Prize» had been awarded to a work that made the following assertion on its inside cover: «This is a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God.

The Memory of Running was chosen as the 2007 selection for the Reading Across Rhode Island program and nominated for Italy s most prestigious literary award, the Bancarella Prize.

He is also the youngest winner of Italy's prestigious literary award the Premio Strega.

The Prix Goncourt is reckoned to be France's most prestigious literary award.

Concerning to some UK observers of the Man Booker Prize: a US author has won the prestigious literary award: Paul Beatty's «The Sellout» is widely hailed.

The Angolan author scooped the $ 100,000 (# 88,000) prestigious literary award which is the world's largest prize for a single novel published in English.

Eleanor Catton has won this year's Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, for her second novel, «The Luminaries.»

The winner of the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors - the Australian / Vogel's Literary award

Not exact matches

Some of you may have heard of the response from a famous literary figure who, upon the acceptance of a prestigious award near the end of his life, was asked to make a brief statement.

One recent winner of a prestigious poetry award admits that the strongest influences on his work are Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan, none of whom write poetry themselves, but all of whom have left lasting imprints on literary theory.

Released in October of 2017, Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, the charming picture book written by Derrick Barnes (left) and illustrated by Gordon James (right), continues to make waves in the literary world — winning and receiving honors for four of the most prestigious awards in the children's book category.

Karen is currently owner of Karen Ball PublishingServices, LLC; a literary agent with the prestigious Steve Laube Agency; an award - winning, best - selling author; the co-creator of Write from the Deep and Live from the Deep with Erin Taylor Young; and a popular speaker and podcaster.

As with many prestigious award winning books, this one has everything that makes it stand out in the eyes of a snobby, musty committee of literary judges: it's got a Victorian setting, a unknown journey, gratuitous and inexplicable violence, and opium.

There are many lesser known writing awards and programs that are prestigious and well known in literary circles.

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

Regarded as Australia's most prestigious literary prize, the award was established in 1957 by the estate of My Brilliant Career author Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin to recognise novels which reflect «Australian life in any of its phases».

It makes a sort of sense — one of Berne's previous novels, A Crime in the Neighborhood, is a previous winner of the Orange Prize, one of the most prestigious UK literary awards, now called the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Each year the organization presents the prestigious Nebula Awards ® for the year's best literary and dramatic works of speculative fiction.

Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world's most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.

She has illustrated a number of books, and is a three - time recipient of the Governor General's Award for Illustration, Canada's most prestigious literary prize.