literary achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofliteraryandachievement

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literary
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us
/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The society's aims include the encouragement ofliteraryachievement, the upholding of professional standards, and social contact with fellow writers and others in the field.
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The mission of the prizes is to call attention toliteraryachievementand provide writers the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
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Our forbears seem to have managed both; comparing their literary achievements with our own, it is hard to claim that their creativity suffered.
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It presents several awards and prizes forliteraryachievementand also since its foundation has assisted writers in financial emergencies or who are in need of support.
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Herliteraryachievementincludes translations.
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This is a very considerableliteraryachievement.
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Belford is able to trace out and then consolidate all the different elements in her subject's life, so that they focus on his own major literary achievements.
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It is not entirely a matter of technical education, important though that is, or of literary acquisition or of literary achievements.
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The new "acadmiciens" had no significant literary achievements.
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His literary achievements lie foremost in the scenic-dialogue innovations of sequential naturalism and in the formalization of literary impressionism.
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For his literary achievements and other accomplishments, he was awarded numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world.
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Though he published many later books, this was considered as the peak of his literary achievements.
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The prize had been awarded to the poet in 2004 for his literary achievements.
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His distinguished literary achievements are here suitably celebrated.
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Winters uses the term, "great", frequently in these writings, and elsewhere, to refer to artworks that he judges to be nearly perfect literary achievements of one kind or another.
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