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Taylor is known for exploring powerful themes of family and racism faced by African Americans in the Deep South, in works that are accessible to young readers. [3] She was awarded the 1977 Newbery Medal [ 4 ] for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and the inaugural NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2003.
Critical reception has been mixed. [3]Deep South received reviews from the Financial Times and The Independent, the latter of which wrote "At the end of the road, the veteran traveller catches a glimpse of an unfamiliar figure in the eyes of those he has met: to them, he realises with a profound shock, he is old.
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [ 2 ]
Paul Edward Theroux (/ θ ə ˈ r uː /; [2] born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).
The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4] As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
There was more delight in it, more self-indulgence, too. Among my earliest influences as a writer were the American novelists of the deep south, especially Eudora Welty, and some of that elated, grotesque comedy stayed with me." Mooncranker's Gift (1973) won the Heinemann Award. Other novels included Stone Virgin (1985) and Losing Nelson (1999).
Bragg, Rick (September 2015) My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South. ISBN 978-0-8487-4639-1; Bragg, Rick (April 2018). The Best Cook in the World: Tales From My Momma's Table. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-1400040414. Bragg, Rick (October 2020). Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780593317785.
The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, and may be written originally in languages other than English. The author of each winning ...