Sentence examples for provincial writers from inspiring English sources

A few identifiable provincial writers turn out to have had their own local patrons, often among the country gentry.

Even within England, culturally and historically the dominant partner in the union of territories comprising Britain, literature has been as enriched by strongly provincial writers as by metropolitan ones.

But if this were the whole truth, Lobo Antunes would remain a local, even a provincial, writer.

Like Letts, Jones was a provincial writer of promise who was pulled onto the Broadway boards too soon for his own good.

In the novels of Balzac, it often happens that a provincial writer, poor but brilliant, comes to Paris, where he talks his way into critical success.

His narrator is not him; it's always a bad provincial writer who has an unpolished quality but is deeply expressive.

And although she has established herself as anything but a provincial writer, she is drawn back to coal country over and over again.

(He also called Mr. Letts a provincial writer; "Oh man, my dad about went through the roof at that one," Mr. Letts said).

"Layali Ukhra" (Other nights), his eighth novel, brings this provincial writer to Cairo, and into a day in the life of a lonely single woman who works in a soulless government office.

I once interviewed Coe for the FT and remember him saying that the most exciting thing about writing the book was "finding an identity" for himself "as a provincial writer".

Vesaas, who wrote in Nynorsk, has been called Norway's most provincial international writer; his works—especially Det store spelet (1934; The Great Cycle)—are firmly rooted in the Norwegian countryside, but their concerns are universal.