Sentences with phrase «win major literary awards»
Kirkus says, «while the writing certainly lacks the depth and polish it takes to win major literary awards, there is no denying that Hocking knows how to tell a good story and keep readers coming back for more.»
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Jane Yolen has published over 300 books and won most major literary awards; I haven't.
By the way, part two: My favorite literary depiction of what it's like to win a major book award is in Meg Wolitzer's The Wife, in which famous author Joseph Castleman wins the (fictional) Helsinki Prize and must journey to Finland to accept it.
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.
Family Matters is Rohinton Mistry's eagerly anticipated third novel, following the success of his highly acclaimed A Fine Balance (1995), which won several major literary awards internationally.
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.»
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.
Upon her return to Japan in 1973 she exhibited in a number of major international art shows, including the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993, and even won a literary award for a novel she wrote, called The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street, published in 1983.