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Her first book, Heads of the Colored People, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, among other prizes. Heads of the Colored People has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. She also won a 2019 Whiting Award. [1]
James Branch Cabell (/ ˈ k æ b əl /; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles-lettres. Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the "department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism," [1] while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as "the ...
Belles Lettres, Criticism, Essays and Painting; Biography and Music; Fiction and Sculpture; History and Architecture, including landscape architecture; Poetry and Music; Drama and Graphic Art. Walter Hinrichsen Award: The Walter Hinrichsen Award is given for the publication of "a work by a mid-career American composer".
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He began studying theology at the University of Leipzig but more and more devoted himself to studying history and belles-lettres instead. Eventually he gave up theology and concentrated on belles-lettres only. His first writings dated to that time. However, his parents did not agree with his study plans and recalled him to Dresden in 1782.
Joan Retallack (born October 13, 1941) is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar. [1] She is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College where she teaches courses in poetics, poethics, and experimental traditions in the arts.
As a research director at CNRS and a Hellenist, she specializes in the ancient medical corpus, publishing several works with Les Belles Lettres. [1] In her research, she explores the differences between ancient Greek concepts and modern Western perceptions of medicine.