Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatrics and a friend 700,000 francs (about $2,300) for causing "grave prejudice" to the Goncourt Academy. Each year the academy hands some novelist a Goncourt Prize, but Guitry and the academy have been on the outs. So this year Guitry awarded his own "Goncourt Prize" to a novel of his own choice. The book was labeled Prix Goncourt in big letters, and Le Goncourt Hors de Goncourt in little ones...
This speedy, thrilling novel begins with a courtship so disarmingly warm and sunny that no reader will dream of the horrors that are lying in wait...
...Apparatus carried out its determination is described in the last, galloping pages of Conspirator-a novel that is too much of a sheer thriller to attain real literary stature, but much too brilliantly written to be classed with ordinary whodunits...
Stanford's system, however, should not be taken as a sacred model for this university. It might be unwise to separate creative writing from the study of literature to the extent of allowing students to write a novel as a doctoral thesis. Rather, creative writing should be a unit within the English Department, with a teaching staff chosen for their ability to teach students writing. The close and healthy relationship between writing and reading should still be preserved in the department, and with it should exist an awareness on the part of the administration that the University is fulfilling...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...