Bykaŭ's novellas that are available in English translation, such as " The Dead Feel No Pain " ( 1965 ), " The Ordeal " ( 1970 ), " Wolf Pack " ( 1975 ) and " Sign of Misfortune ", challenged the official version of the war.

Vasil Bykaŭ's stature in the life of his country remains enormous.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

In fact, he writes in the prelude that he first created a prose work and then used it as the basis for his poem Metres of Boethius, his crowning literary achievement.

Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

* National Book Award, an award given for literary achievement in the United States

At the same time he became known in the world of letters ; the academic subtlety and literary achievement of his Defence of Philosophic Doubt ( 1879 ) suggested that he might make a reputation for himself as a philosopher.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition largely became sidelined.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him in many respects a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition, a tradition which includes his ancestor James I of Scotland, largely became sidelined.

The Matt Cohen A Writer ’ s Life Award for lifetime literary achievement

Other literary friends included, Ford Madox Ford, John Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, George Bernard Shaw ( who openly admits his debt to Graham for " Captain Brassbound's Conversion " as well as a key line in " Arms and the Man ") and G. K. Chesterton, who proclaimed him " The Prince of Preface Writers " and famously declared in his autobiography that while Cunninghame Graham would never be allowed to be Prime Minister, he instead " achieved the adventure of being Cunninghame Graham ", which Shaw described as " an achievement so fantastic that it would never be believed in a romance.

Today, Virginia is seen by many as an outstanding achievement in Glasgow's career, exactly because the author defied literary convention by questioning the foundations of American society around the dawn of the 20th century, be it capitalism, religion or racism.

According to book's publisher, Dusty Spark Publishing it is regarded as " one of the literary achievement of postwar Liberia and contemporary Africa.

The literary achievement of the ZGC is also outstanding-it signifies a new era in the development of ancient Chinese literature.

While under the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, Pickthall published his translation of the Qur ' an, authorized by the Al-Azhar University and referred to by the Times Literary Supplement as " a great literary achievement.

Douglas's most important literary achievement is the Eneados, a Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid, completed in 1513, and the first full translation of a major poem from classical antiquity into any modern Germanic language.

The grandeur and ambition of Ernest Bewley ’ s achievement resulted in Bewley ’ s Grafton Street immediately becoming an essential part of the literary, cultural, artistic, architectural and social life of Dublin.

His greatest literary achievement was Facundo, a critique of Juan Manuel de Rosas, that Sarmiento wrote while working for the newspaper El Progreso during his exile in Chile.

Given at the discretion of the Council of the Academy on the recommendation of a nominating committee, the prize is awarded to a person for his or her total literary achievement rather than for a specific work.

Another notable literary achievement which occurred during his reign was the compilation of the Seven Military Classics, including the alleged forgery of the Questions and Replies between Tang Taizong and Li Weigong.

She was awarded India's highest literary award, for lifetime achievement, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979, followed by the Jnanpith Award in 1982.

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

For his lifetime of literary achievement, Rydberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in 1877 and was elected a member of the Swedish Academy the same year.

The first, established in 1956, is for a fiction work of " considerable literary achievement " published in the previous year.

In ancient China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book named after its author, The Master of Demon Valley ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

Baird Searles, in Asimov's Science Fiction ( April 1984 ), says " the book lies in the uneasy boundary between surrealism and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact ".

How can we undertake to account for the literary miracles of antiquity, while this great myth of the modern ages still lies at our own door, unquestioned?

In China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book called Book of the Devil Valley Master ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

: The contribution of our literary scholarship lies in the fact that it has focused sharply on the basic problems of literary criticism and literary study, first of all on the specificity of its object, that it modified our conception of the literary work and broke it down into its component parts, that it opened up new areas of inquiry, vastly enriched our knowledge of literary technology, raised the standards of our literary research and of our theorizing about literature effected, in a sense, a Europeanization of our literary scholarship ….

The significance of the Shin Kokinshū lies prominently in the technical expertise of the compilers, their novel and extensive use of the honkadori literary technique, and the effect that each of these elements had on Japanese poetry after its publication.

The importance of the Dolce Stil Novo lies in the fact that apart from being the manifestation of the first true literary tradition in Italy, it ennobled the Tuscan vernacular, which was soon destined to become the Italian national language.

The significance, it is said, lies in part in Joyce's reluctance to acknowledge influence from the Irish literary tradition: he was otherwise chary of adopting any artistic predecessors.

According to Moi, the problem of equality in literary theory does not lie in the fact that the literary canon is fundamentally male and unrepresentative of female tradition, rather the problem lies in the fact that a canon exists at all.

In this subtle negotiation between the value-thick sensibility of the reader and the intertextual resonances of a literary work lies the tactful attunement of all great criticism.

The early 17th century Malay literary work Sejarah Melayu ( Malay Annals ) records that Kota Gelanggi lies on the upper reaches of the Johor River with a main fort made of black stone ( or Kota Batu Hitam in Malay ).

The literary critic Sir Malcolm Bradbury, stated: " Just when we didn't expect it, there now wonderfully comes a large new novel from the master ... Our world is a world of ideas, pervaded by minds, thoughts, notions, beyond which lies what we seek with such difficulty: wholeness, silence and love.

The literary Dracula is from Transylvania, which lies in the Carpathian Mountains.

Earlier reviews noted that Blicher ’ s literary skill lies in his descriptions of scenery, especially the Jutlandic moor landscape and its inhabitants: the long-suffering peasantry and “ free ” moor gypsies.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The chief literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic, humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War.

Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.

Reading the Kuttner ( and Moore ) novel, readers are bound to find similarities in theme and in specific instances: some character names are common to both works, and they share the fantasy literary device of moving a present day, realistic character from the familiar world into a fantastical, alternate reality world, exposing the character to this shift as the reader experiences it.

And says the literary category of pastoral novels is realistic and post-realistic fiction with a rural theme or subject based on traditional pastoral.

His earlier works are written in a realistic style, while his later novels utilize elements of the nouveau roman literary movement and tend to be more experimental.

In his essay The Genesis of Secrecy, British literary critic Frank Kermode discussed Green's novel Party Going and suggested that behind its realistic surface the book hides a complex network of mythical allusions.

They formed a realistic literary style and formulated their Marxist ideas as part of this movement.

Their literary style was realistic and they cherished Marxist ideas.

Seth created some controversy by presenting realistic fictional stories as if they had actually happened, not as a ploy to fool writers but as a literary technique.

The greatest literary strengths in Tipping the Velvet, according to reviewers and literary scholars, are the vibrant portrayal of the districts and streets of London, and Waters ' ability to create sympathetic and realistic characters.

The show is recognized for its realistic portrayal of urban life, its literary ambitions, and its uncommonly deep exploration of sociopolitical themes.

The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that honors a book or books of " outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally ".

Swan argued that literary realism is itself an artificial construct and not realistic in the sense French meant.

For instance, " Life on the Iron Mills " utilizes a realistic style comparable to writers in the height of American literary realism, which came two decades after the text was published.

By adopting a realistic stance, Mais decided to assume a literary style that would be more representative of the Caribbean national consciousness.

Despite these criticisms, many criteria have been suggested to determine literary merit including: standing the test of time, realistic characters, emotional complexity, originality, and concern with truth.

The writer of a 1797 review in The Monthly Review praised Radcliffe ’ s visual and descriptive language in the novel, citing “ the part … which displays the greatest genius, and the most force of description, is the account of the scenes which passed in the long house on the shore of the Adriatic, between Schedoni, Ellena, and Spalatro :-The horrible sublimity which characterizes the discovery made by the former that Ellena was his daughter, at the instant in which he was about to stab her, was perhaps unparalleled .” This style of ‘ painting the sublime ’ reflects the preference for allegorical or transcendent imagery over physical or realistic imagery in the Gothic literary and artistic period.