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
The movie was directed and co-written by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a frequent Cannes prizewinner who won the Palme for 2014’s “Winter Sleep.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2023
He says he’ll put the seeds from his new prizewinner up for auction, too.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 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
Three Cannes prizewinners lead the field at this early stage, reflecting the agenda-setting import of the road from the Croisette to the Kodak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
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
The previous nine winners have all gone on to secure a best-picture Oscar nomination, as have 13 of the last 14 People’s Choice prizewinners.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2021
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
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