Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slender collection of published work already earned him the PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction and the Flannery O'Connor Award, plus a handful of other literary accolades? The answer hinges partly on the accident of his birth and the raw materials that fed his literary imagination. Now 41 and teaching English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Ha Jin had the good luck to be born outside the U.S. and hence be protected from the homogenizing and potentially trivializing influences that afflict so many U.S.-born aspiring authors. Beginners are advised to "write about what you know...
...PHRASE] Love story from Peter Carey's prize novel...
...himself all the way through the scene in which he is first introduced to Dido. Coyly, he looks off to the side, away from Dido and all the other actors with whom he is supposed to be interacting. He beams like a bridegroom, embarrassed but already certain of his prize. Fortunately both the fated lovers sing better than they act, delivering consistently competent, and sometimes lovely passages. However, neither lead ever wins the audience's heart. The end of Dido, and of Dido, comes as a relief to us--also no doubt to the actors, whose jaws and cheeks must...
...Connor, elder brother of singer Sinead, is a writer of some renown in his native Ireland. His first novel was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, and a collection of his journalism was an Irish bestseller for three months. His published work encompasses everything from biography to travel writing. Red Roses and Petrol, his first play, centers on the death of Enda (Brian Scally), patriarch of a small clan, which reunites his scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined...
...spent the afternoon wandering around with my OCS plastic bag--picking up all the pens, coffee cups, mugs, slinkies, highlighters, squishie balls and other fun things the companies were passing out. Disney's Mickey Mouse pencils definitely ranked in the top five free recruiting gifts, but the prize went to CapitalOne, some sort of financial outfit. Their recruiters baked homemade chocolate chip cookies. In a world of blue pinstripe, that's originality...