Sentence examples for literary causes from inspiring English sources

Grass was a longtime participant in Social Democratic Party politics in West Berlin, fighting for social and literary causes.

Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes.

Why does every literary cause want to recruit Beckett?

The latest literary cause célèbre in the making is exploding in Moscow, where the postmodernist writer Vladimir Sorokin was charged last week by prosecutors with writing an allegedly pornographic novel, "Blue Lard".

But Mr. Colting's book has nevertheless become a literary cause célèbre, with a number of legal experts, including one from The New York Times, seeking to overturn the judge's decision.

This led to the 70-year-old publisher becoming involved in the literary cause.

But maybe there's a reader on your list who's more compassionate, even philanthropic, who'd love to know a worthy literary cause received a boost in their name.

Virginia did not object, but "Fanny's" indiscreet writings about her literary love caused great scandal.

The echoes of Rwanda in 1994, whatever their literary value, cause him all manner of problems.

Matti Pulkkinen's Romaanihenkilön kuolema (1985; "The Death of a Fictional Character"), a postmodern novel that probes the possibilities of literary expression, caused a stir for its seemingly reactionary political views.

A few weeks ago, Vida, an organisation for women in the literary arts, caused a stir when it surveyed a year's reviews coverage from major US publications (as well as the UK's London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement) and found that the reviewers and the authors reviewed were predominantly male.