Sentence examples for prestigious writers from inspiring English sources

British screenwriter Julian Fellowes won the best original screenplay award for Gosford Park in the prestigious Writers and Producers Guild of America awards last night.

I used to feel terribly envious when I heard childless writer friends announce that they'd been awarded residencies or fellowships at prestigious writers' retreats – those awards by definition exclude applicants with families.

As it grew, it published the works of many successful and prestigious writers and gathered under its corporate roof many other firms, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (acquired 1960), Pantheon Books (1961), Ballantine Books (1973), Fawcett Books (1982), and the Crown Publishing Group (1988).

Ulitskaya's divorce settlement got her an apartment in Moscow's relatively comfortable and prestigious Writers' Union quarter — though she was not yet a writer — and alimony payments that, combined with her talent for making connections and her having the time to stand in lines for hours on end, put food on the table.

His first two books, Setting Free the Bears (1969) and The Water-Method Man (1972) had been reviewed both widely and appreciatively, but he made ends meet by teaching and accepted a post at the prestigious writers' workshop at Iowa University where he had been a postgraduate student a few years earlier.

Magnason is one of the country's most prestigious writers, known for his plays, poetry, novels and children's fiction, as well as Dreamland, a non-fiction book that discussed many of the issues facing modern Iceland, especially the threat to its environment.

His aggressiveness toward the reader notwithstanding, Beckett is the most prestigious writer around.

Disturbing or entertaining as the statement might sound, Mo Yan, the most prestigious writer at the moment in China, seems to have confirmed that observation.

(The writing that was so informed by restrictions last year won Sinclair and Blichfeld a prestigious Writer's Guild award for the episode entitled Rachel).

David Kajganich came to filmmaking from a background in literature, having first trained as a fiction writer at the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop.

We were sitting at Café Pedlar, a Cobble Hill coffee shop, and Fierro, who earned an MFA in creative writing at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop (it has 17 Pulitzer-winning graduates), was explaining the genesis of her hugely successful Sackett Street Writers' Workshop.