May We Be Forgiven, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 10 relations: A. M. Homes, Don DeLillo, Granta, John Cheever, Kitsch, Richard Nixon, Salman Rushdie, Satire, The Best American Short Stories 2008, Women's Prize for Fiction.

2. Women's Prize for Fiction-winning works

A. M. Homes

Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961) is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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John Cheever

John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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The Best American Short Stories 2008

The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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See also

Women's Prize for Fiction-winning works

• A Crime in the Neighborhood
• A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
• A Spell of Winter
• An American Marriage
• Bel Canto (novel)
• Fugitive Pieces
• Half of a Yellow Sun
• Hamnet (novel)
• Home (Robinson novel)
• Home Fire (novel)
• How to Be Both
• Larry's Party
• List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners
• May We Be Forgiven
• On Beauty
• Piranesi (novel)
• Property (novel)
• Small Island (novel)
• The Book of Form and Emptiness
• The Glorious Heresies
• The Idea of Perfection
• The Lacuna
• The Power (Alderman novel)
• The Road Home (novel)
• The Song of Achilles
• The Tiger's Wife
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• When I Lived in Modern Times

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_We_Be_Forgiven