Sentence examples for elder writer from inspiring English sources

They learned their craft in the literary workshop of the innovative elder writer Yevgeny Zamyatin.

A word of admiration from an elder writer, Ike Zimmerman (played with a gruff, showy wisdom by Jonathan Pryce), is one of two rays of sunlight.

Yes, it's a riff on Roth's novel "The Ghost Writer," a story about a young writer, Philip Lewis Friedman, who accepts an invitation to the rural home of an established (though now blocked) elder writer.

They fulfill the charge offered by Roth himself in a prior novel, "The Ghost Writer," in which an elder writer praises the work of Roth's young quasi-alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman: " 'I don't mean style.

There's a sort of artistic modesty at work in "Listen Up Philip," the depiction of a wild force of nature, a kind of literary id (indeed, two of them — the other being that of the elder writer Ike Zimmerman, played by Jonathan Pryce, who befriends Philip) that, unleashed, whips up a fury of epochal power and enduring importance.

Both couples kept houses on the island, and in 2000, Hazzard published a fine, brief memoir, Greene on Capri, which gave as much space to the elder writer's difficult and occasionally cruel nature as to his attractiveness and talent.

Both are still releasing work today, but it's hard to point to a new wave of queer writers who are having the same kind of impact (or careers) these elder writers have.

Pliny the Younger was the nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder, a writer and naturalist who created the botanical name for hops.

Mr. Reiner the elder, a comic, writer and director, is the third person to receive the annual Kennedy Center humor award, after Jonathan Winters and Richard Pryor.

His early years were spent moving around with his mother and elder brother, the writer JM Coetzee, including a spell on a sheep farm in the central Karoo, but he came to consider Cape Town as his home from 1951 onwards.

The brother was a painter ('a bit Bohemian; he drank') whose elder daughter was writer Joan Wyndham, and whose younger daughter, Ingrid, married first a Guinness, then Paul Channon, the Tory politician.