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AHMM stories have won almost every major mystery award, including The Edgar Award for Best Short story, presented by the Mystery Writers of America ; the Robert L. Fish Award for Best First Short Story ; the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, presented at the Malice Domestic conference ; and the Shamus Award for Best P. I.
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There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.
And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.
Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;
Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.
`` I have heard stories '', he writes, `` of the most terrible, the most unnatural actions, of the most monstrous murders, told with the most spontaneous, childishly merry laughter ''.
Two stories will illustrate what I have in mind.
But after that service, they decided to try to let the girls say grace at the table, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories.
Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.
In other stories, authors have used the word " android " to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation.
Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.
There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).
While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.
Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.
Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.
The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.
Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.
An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.
Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.
Images and stories of flight have appeared throughout recorded history, such as the legendary story of Icarus and Daedalus.
One popular technique is to mock external interfaces or data to mimic other stories which might not be played out during an iteration ( as those stories may have been relatively lower business priority ).
" Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti has argued that Boone ’ s account may have been the inspiration for some of the Bigfoot stories told in North America.
However, from a conservative approach, Joyce G. Baldwin argued that " old, authentic stories would have provided comfort to sufferers of later generations far more convincingly than a book of new parables.
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In the 19th century, as Norway was achieving independence after centuries of union with Denmark and Sweden, the stories of the independent Norwegian medieval kingdom won great popularity in Norway.
Although the various stories and creators have won awards too ( see the various entries for details ) the comic itself has its own trophies:
She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.
While attending the University of Toronto he won two Hart House literary prizes ( the first to win two ), for stories which were published in the Hart House Review, and Canadian Fiction Magazines annual Contributor's Prize for 1985.
Several of his stories have been nominated for the genre's awards ; " The Ugly Chickens " -- about the extinction of the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981 ; this is perhaps his best known work.
James Michener won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, which in turn was the basis for South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, also a Pulitzer Prize winner.
One of the most well known versions of the Pecos Bill stories is by James Cloyd Bowman in Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time ( 1937 ) which won the Newbery Honor in 1938, and was republished in 2007.
An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.
The new series of short stories which he began to publish in 1822 also won him a wide popularity.
The Journal won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for that day's stories.
However, his attitude also won him much attention from the British tabloid press who often ran stories concerning his alleged drug use and behaviour.
Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ), and went on to write a well-received novel, The Namesake ( 2003 ), which was shortly adapted to film in 2007.
He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice ( for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001 ).
Frontline / World also streams stories on its website, which won two Webby awards in 2008 for its original series of online videos called " Rough Cuts ".
Ten stories won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting – " six carrying the familiar byline of Bob Woodward ," noted the New York Times article announcing the awards.
At college, Hayes became interested in radio and won a contest to write radio stories for Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Angry Candy was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and won a World Fantasy award for best collection of short stories.
From 2000 – 2005, it published original science fiction short stories in a section called " Sci Fiction ", edited by Ellen Datlow, who won a 2005 Hugo Award for her work there.
The stories themselves won a World Fantasy Award ; the first Theodore Sturgeon Award for online fiction ( for Lucius Shepard's novella " Over Yonder "), and four of the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Awards, including the first for original online fiction ( for Linda Nagata's novella " Goddesses ").
* Seymour Hersh's stories on the My Lai massacre were distributed by the Dispatch News Service during the Vietnam War and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970.
The program has won many awards for investigative journalism, and broken many high-profile stories.
McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites ( 1975 ), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.
Pérez worked on several stories which won the CBG award for " Favorite Comic-Book Story ":
Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body ( 1928 ), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, " The Devil and Daniel Webster " ( 1936 ) and " By the Waters of Babylon " ( 1937 ).
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