Word: authorly
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...University official jokingly termed last night's event at the Graduate School of Education's "Irish Night"--and the most Irish voice there was Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes...
...announcement ceremony was followed by a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, author of the best-selling memoir Angela's Ashes...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
...protest at the hypocrisies he sees all around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with...
...author of one book and numerous articles and papers on Chinese international relations...