Word: novelists
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...field. And that's how I'd like to be read. People who enjoy a good read, people belonging to book clubs. Ladies in book clubs have written to me and that sort of thing, you know. I would certainly not like to be viewed as a post-colonial novelist, that would be absurd. I hope that I write in a way which would be true to all times...
...well-known professional writer and novelist,Marius' job was to impose standards and restorethe University's confidence in a program that bymost accounts was failing its students...
Sources recalled a recent interview of one candidate, a novelist, for a job with Expos last year. Before the interview, Marius worried aloud about whether the prospective teacher's most recent book was longer than his own last book. During the interview, the director of Expository Writing told the candidate, "If you take out these indexes in your book, my last book is longer...
...Novelist Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize...
Nearly everyone, including the author, was startled last week when the Swedish Academy awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature to the American novelist Toni Morrison. For one thing, the academy has shown a fondness for spreading the prize around geopolitically and linguistically; because the last two winners -- Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and Derek Walcott a year ago -- write in English, this year's winner figured to be one who works in another language. For another, the U.S. authors rumored to be in contention for the prize were Thomas Pynchon and Joyce Carol Oates; Morrison's name did not appear...