Sentences with phrase «winning debut novel»

My award winning debut novel has returned to print!

Based on the author's own life, this award - winning debut novel in verse features a young Latina girl with artistic aspirations who copes with her mother's struggle with cancer while growing up in a close - knit family.

As with her award - winning debut novel, The Weight of Blood, Laura McHugh has written a thrilling novel in which nothing is as it seems, and in which our longing for the past can take hold of the present in insidious and haunting ways.

Not exact matches

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

For his studio - funded debut, he's chosen to adapt Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning novel, packed with visceral horror, weighty ideas and unusual storytelling.

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

Mark Helprin celebrated 1983 novel WINTER»S TALE finally makes it to the big - screen with Oscar - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut.

The directing and producing debut of Geoffrey Fletcher, the Academy Award - winning screenwriter of Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire, Violet & Daisy widely defies the expectations set by its opening.

Bryan Lee O'Malley's guitar - slinging Canadian comic book hero Scott Pilgrim came into the world in 2004, and after a series of five award - winning graphic novels (and a 6th debuting on July 20th) Scott Pilgrim makes his big screen debut with Canuck cult actor Michael Cera in the lead, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright at the helm, and a cast that includes Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and indie favourite Jason Schwartzman!

Bryan Lee O'Malley's guitar - slinging Canadian comic book hero Scott Pilgrim came into the world in 2004, and after a series of five award - winning graphic novels (and a 6th debuting on July 20th) Scott Pilgrim makes...

Adapted from a William Giraldi novel by regular Saulnier collaborator / star Macon Blair, whose directorial debut won Sundance last year, Hold The Dark takes the canine terror to a new level with the story of a writer (Jeffrey Wright) hired to find and rescue a 6 - year - old boy dragged into the Alaskan wilderness by wolves.

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

The source material is the 1943 novel «The Human Comedy» from Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Saroyan; and it's the directorial debut of Meg Ryan, the one - time «America's Sweetheart» who reunites with her Sleepless in Seattle co-star Tom Hanks (in a ghostly cameo).

This month also sees the publication of AJ Pearce's debut novel about wartime female friendship, Dear Mrs Bird, which was the subject of a seven - way bidding war won by Picador.

Ewan McGregor's directorial debut is a disappointing take on Phillip Roth's Pulitzer - winning 1997 novel about a family man (McGregor) who finds his life spiralling out of control when his 16 year old daughter (Dakota Fanning) rebels by committing a terrorist act during the Vietnam War.

by Walter Chaw Based on an award - winning novel by Andres Dubus III, son of Canadian novelist and short - story writer Andre Dubus, Vadim Perelman's hyphenate debut House of Sand and Fog is difficult to gauge on its own merits, given that the typically invasive grandiosity of another abominable James Horner score sinks the picture almost by itself.

Like the Tony - winning Broadway adaptation of the same name, which also debuted in 2011, War Horse was adapted from Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel.

Published in 1995, Alan Warner's debut novel Morven Callar was a critical hit and bestseller and won the young novelist the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award.

Oscar - winning documentarian Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) makes his feature debut here, based on Giles Foden's novel, and it's a curious piece of work, part biopic, part history lesson and part Hitchcockian thriller.

Her debut novel, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, won the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for best first book (Canada / Caribbean region) and the Toronto Book Award in 2004.

David Ebershoff's debut novel, The Danish Girl, won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction and has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Academy Award - winner Eddie Redmayne.

Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).

Last year she was awarded Editor of the Year from the American Christian Fiction Writers and won B&H's first Christy award for Ginny Yttrup's debut novel Words.

Kaui Hart Hemmings follows up her best - selling debut novel The Descendants — which was made into an award - winning movie starring George Clooney — with The Possibilities, a moving story of a mother struggling to come to terms with the accidental death of her 22 - year - old son.

Ewan McGregor stars in and makes his directorial debut with the film based on the 1997 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel American Pastoral.

A searing debut novel from the award - winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring.

Clare Vanderpool won the 2011 Newbery Medal for her novel Moon Over Manifest — a surprise to a lot of readers, as Vanderpool was a debut author.

Author Justin Go is winning high praise for his «ambitious, sprawling and compelling debut novel,» The Steady Running of the Hour.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundation.

Gate to Nowhere, debut novel by Leanna Sain is the Winner in the category of Fiction - General in the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award and also won the Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc..

The Golden Crusader, debut novel by Linda Langwith is an Award - Winning Finalist in the category of Mystery General in the 2011 Global eBook Awards.

Touch of Fate, debut novel by Christine Amsden is an Award - Winning Finalist and Honorable Mention in the Legacy Fiction category for the 2011 Eric Hoffer award.

Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

John Rector is a prize - winning short story writer and author of the novels «The Grove,» published by AmazonEncore, and «The Cold Kiss,» which was named Best Debut Novel of 2010 by Suspense Magazine.

Sherry has won the Rita Award twice in a row now (the romance genre's highest honor) and her debut novel PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS was named one of Publisher's Weekly best books of the year in 2008.

Miguel Syjuco, from Manila, is the author of Ilustrado, the debut novel which won the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize as well as the Palanca Award, the Philippines» highest literary honor.

His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The Strangler, which was an L.A. Times favorite crime novel and was nominated for the Strand Magazine Critics Award as best crime novel of 2007.

Hannah Tinti, who won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for her 2008 debut, The Good Thief, returns this week with a gripping sophomore novel about a girl trying to come to terms with her father's criminal Novel Prize for her 2008 debut, The Good Thief, returns this week with a gripping sophomore novel about a girl trying to come to terms with her father's criminal novel about a girl trying to come to terms with her father's criminal past.

His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The Strangler, which was an L.A.... (more)

With an average rating of 4.5 out of 5, this debut novel won high marks with many BookBrowse readers.

After releasing an award - winning story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, in 2009, Kevin Wilson drew more acclaim for his 2011 debut novel, The Family Fang, an offbeat and original look at a family of performance artists.

From O. Henry Prize — winning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.

An inventive suspense novel, a moving debut about growing up in the modern South and an award - winning memoir make for great group discussion this month.

McCall's first novel in verse, Under the Mesquite, won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist.

Hoffman's charming debut novel about a 12 - year - old southern girl with a neglectful father and mentally ill mother won rave reviews and became a bestseller.

His mother's penchant for making up stories might have been destructive, but Skyhorse's was creative: his debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, won the 2011 PEN / Hemingway Award and Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.

It won the PWA (Private Eye Writers) award for a debut novel.

The Danish Girl By David Ebershoff Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143108399 Ebershoff's best - selling debut novel, first published in 2000, is available in a new movie tie - in edition one month before the release of a highly anticipated film version starring Oscar - winning actor Eddie Redmayne in the title role.

Keren's debut novel When I Was Joe won five regional awards, voted for by teenage readers, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and the William Morris award, shortlisted for the Branford Boase award, the UKLA award and highly commended for the Teenage Booktrust Prize.

Her debut novel, Perfection Unleashed, published in 2012, won six literary awards and launched her best - selling futuristic thriller series, Double Helix, which blends cutting - edge genetic engineering and high - octane action with an unforgettable romance between an alpha empath and an... Continue Reading...