Author: Heinz Dietrich Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 3643963505
Category : Nobel Prize winners
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume presents nine authors awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to biographical sketches of each laureate, emphasis is given to the decision making processes by juries for the Pulitzer awards in New York as well as the discussions within the Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm. Main parts of the Nobel Lectures by the recipients follow, and each winner is characterized by one of his most important works, including a content synopsis and style samples. Necessary background materials came from the Pulitzer Prize Archive at Columbia University, New York, and the Nobel Prize Archive of the Swedish Academy, Stockholm.
Both Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature
Author: Heinz Dietrich Fischer
Publisher:
ISBN: 3643963505
Category : Nobel Prize winners
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume presents nine authors awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to biographical sketches of each laureate, emphasis is given to the decision making processes by juries for the Pulitzer awards in New York as well as the discussions within the Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm. Main parts of the Nobel Lectures by the recipients follow, and each winner is characterized by one of his most important works, including a content synopsis and style samples. Necessary background materials came from the Pulitzer Prize Archive at Columbia University, New York, and the Nobel Prize Archive of the Swedish Academy, Stockholm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 3643963505
Category : Nobel Prize winners
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume presents nine authors awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to biographical sketches of each laureate, emphasis is given to the decision making processes by juries for the Pulitzer awards in New York as well as the discussions within the Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm. Main parts of the Nobel Lectures by the recipients follow, and each winner is characterized by one of his most important works, including a content synopsis and style samples. Necessary background materials came from the Pulitzer Prize Archive at Columbia University, New York, and the Nobel Prize Archive of the Swedish Academy, Stockholm.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156188760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156188760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
The Coup
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679645713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. "What a rich, surprising, and often funny novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “A leader,” writes Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.” Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion—cultural, ideological, and personal—to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into the nation of Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story—always elegantly, and often in the third person—from an undisclosed location in the South of France.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679645713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. "What a rich, surprising, and often funny novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “A leader,” writes Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish.” Colonel Ellelloû has four wives, a silver Mercedes, and a fanatic aversion—cultural, ideological, and personal—to the United States. But the U.S. keeps creeping into the nation of Kush, and the repercussions of this incursion constitute the events of the novel. Colonel Ellelloû tells his own story—always elegantly, and often in the third person—from an undisclosed location in the South of France.
The Bostonians
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Main Street
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: First Avenue Editions TM
ISBN: 1728468884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Publisher: First Avenue Editions TM
ISBN: 1728468884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Train Dreams
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429995203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life. It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429995203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West—its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life. It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Inauguration of the Pulitzer Prizes in 1917
Author: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364391461X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume concentrates on the first ever awarded Pulitzer Prizes during the World War year 1917. Awards only were given in four catagories - Reporting, Editorial Writing, Biography/Autobiography and American History. Biographical sketches about the four winners are followed by explanations of the circumstances under which the prizes were selected. The award-winning pieces are reprinted in the original typography of the time when they were evaluated by the juries. Attached are lists of award-recipients from the four categories over the span from 1917 to 2020. A Bibliography of all works dealing with the Pulitzer Prize history, published between 1917 and 2021, concludes the book.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364391461X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume concentrates on the first ever awarded Pulitzer Prizes during the World War year 1917. Awards only were given in four catagories - Reporting, Editorial Writing, Biography/Autobiography and American History. Biographical sketches about the four winners are followed by explanations of the circumstances under which the prizes were selected. The award-winning pieces are reprinted in the original typography of the time when they were evaluated by the juries. Attached are lists of award-recipients from the four categories over the span from 1917 to 2020. A Bibliography of all works dealing with the Pulitzer Prize history, published between 1917 and 2021, concludes the book.
Story of the Pulitzer Prizes in Letters 1917 - 2000
Author: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643914970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume contains background information about the development of Pulitzer Prizewinning book awards from 1917 - 2000. The fact-oriented literature categories were called "History", "Biography or Autobiography" and "General Nonfiction", while the areas of Belles-Lettres are represented by award groupe like "Novel", "Fiction" and "Poetry". Thanks to the availability of the confidential Jury Reports it was possible to reconstruct the decision-making processes within the evaluating committees.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643914970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This volume contains background information about the development of Pulitzer Prizewinning book awards from 1917 - 2000. The fact-oriented literature categories were called "History", "Biography or Autobiography" and "General Nonfiction", while the areas of Belles-Lettres are represented by award groupe like "Novel", "Fiction" and "Poetry". Thanks to the availability of the confidential Jury Reports it was possible to reconstruct the decision-making processes within the evaluating committees.
The Nobel Lecture
Author: Bob Dylan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471172198
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
On October 13, 2016, it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and letters over the last fifty years. Some months later, he delivered a lecture that will now be available in book form for generations to come. In it, he reflects on his life and experience with literature, giving readers a rare and intimate look at an American icon. From being inspired by Buddy Holly to the novels that helped shape his own approach to writing (The Odyssey, Moby Dick, and All Quiet on the Western Front), this is Dylan like you've never seen him before.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471172198
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
On October 13, 2016, it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and letters over the last fifty years. Some months later, he delivered a lecture that will now be available in book form for generations to come. In it, he reflects on his life and experience with literature, giving readers a rare and intimate look at an American icon. From being inspired by Buddy Holly to the novels that helped shape his own approach to writing (The Odyssey, Moby Dick, and All Quiet on the Western Front), this is Dylan like you've never seen him before.