Sentence examples for being shortlisted for from inspiring English sources

High point: "Being shortlisted for prizes".

Congratulations on being shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize.

Can one imagine a latterday Wings of the Dove or Ulysses being shortlisted for the Booker?

Pynchon failed to attend last year's National Book Awards ceremony, despite being shortlisted for the prize.

Oddly, there is hardly anything about her own books or being shortlisted for the Booker.

Last week saw the painter Dexter Dalwood being shortlisted for the Turner prize.

His colonialist parable The English Passengers was declared novel of the year, after being shortlisted for the Booker last autumn.

The one award he did want, after being shortlisted for five successive years, was the Nobel – he won in 1973.

But being shortlisted for a major award relatively late in one's career brings with it a piercing dilemma.

Blackwood said that being shortlisted for the prize "was one of the most exciting moments of my life".

A little-known novelist with a tiny independent publisher in Scotland is enjoying an extraordinary sales rush after being shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.