prizewinner
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“Nuisance Bear,” a prizewinner at Sundance earlier this year, brought an effective style of its own to a story set in Churchill, Manitoba, aka the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
A prizewinner and a New York Times bestseller, poet Zamora’s book describes his migration — alone — from El Salvador to the U.S. at the age of 9, to be reunited with his parents.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
He says he’ll put the seeds from his new prizewinner up for auction, too.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2022
Now 63, he has matured into prestige — widely translated, a National Book Critics Circle prizewinner, writer in residence at USC, an influence to younger writers — while remaining impish and unpredictable in his writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
Harry eyed me and then said, “Let me look at him. He’s a prizewinner, isn’t he? If they had an entry for moths at the Fentress Fair, you’d take it, easy.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story collections and novels were once enormous bestsellers and habitual prizewinners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
“Nickel Boys” “At this stage, two Cannes prizewinners are duking it out for the top spot: Sean Baker’s box-office hit ‘Anora’ and Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
The country’s prizewinners are sold at high-stakes auctions — so high that wealthy ranchers share ownership.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
In an open letter, the postponement was condemned by over 600 writers, including Nobel prizewinners such as Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, and Olga Tokarczuk, and Booker Prize winners Anne Enright, Richard Flanagan and Ian McEwan.
From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023
As a result, German schools lost some of the best minds, including physicists and Nobel prizewinners such as Albert Einstein.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
