"prestigious author" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The novel was written by a prestigious author whose books have been translated into multiple languages."
This legitimation mechanism creates a path of influence for the prestigious authors independent of the quality or amount of their work.
Using a type of content analysis data from 1604 texts, and controlling for the "quality" of these texts, I find that prestigious authors have more influence on the content of the debate because the participants in the debate must build upon the texts of the prestigious authors to legitimate their own work.
As a first-time novelist, I'd expected very little in the way of a response from the prestigious authors I'd contacted.
The council of prestigious authors and linguists has been dealing with the fallout of allegations of sexual misconduct by the husband of one of its members and of the leaks of names of some prize-winners ahead of the formal announcements.
Here's hoping that the influence of her current group of prestigious co-authors will help move the wider community toward desperately needed change.
The Last Word was Kureishi's tale of a young writer commissioned to write the biography of a prestigious Indian-born author, while John Niven was recognised for Straight White Male, about a washed-up, alcoholic, sex-addicted novelist.
Karen Armstrong is an acclaimed religious author, prestigious TED Prize winner and one of the world's foremost religious scholars -- not to mention a former nun.
These journals are conventionally prestigious, although the authors of the report are careful to tiptoe around this fact.
In the UK, the number of female first authors in prestigious journals has increased but not as female senior authors, and we do not know if these authors have been clinical physicians [ 18].
