literary career

collocation in English

meaningsofliteraryandcareer

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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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career
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈrɪər/
us
/kəˈrɪr/
the job or series of jobs that you do during your working life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandcareerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consequently, the playwright had to abandon hisliterarycareer, and the ban on his play lasted for fourteen years until 1988.
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Mumford worked for urban reform while hisliterarycareerwas -ourishing in the 1920s.
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There are many reasons for her modest literary reputation: her own modesty, the small body of her work, the brevity of herliterarycareer.
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He retired from aliterarycareerin the year 1965.
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During his briefliterarycareer, he wrote more than a hundred short stories and fictional sketches.
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He started hisliterarycareerat an early age.
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She began herliterarycareerin 1980 writing books for children.
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He started hisliterarycareeras a poet at the age of eighteen.
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He later decided upon aliterarycareer, however much his age might have rendered him young and impressionable.
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Mantel has talked about her anxiety to get the trilogy right, and about their centrality to her entireliterarycareer.
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He went on to publish several other poetry collections and essay collections throughout hisliterarycareer.
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However, he was pardoned in 1952 and went on to start aliterarycareer.
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Rushforth died just as hisliterarycareerwas about to take off.
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Its success got him instant fame and started hisliterarycareerin which he went to write over 17 novels.
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He passed his law examination but never practiced the legal profession, having decided to enter on aliterarycareer.
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She originally intended aliterarycareer, and to become a journalist but went on stage instead.
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This period was also the most prolific in herliterarycareer.
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At the very outset of hisliterarycareer, while he was still a student, he initiated two parallel series of short stories and novels.
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He eventually left state service in the early 1860s to pursue hisliterarycareer.
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During this stage of her life as a young woman, she began herliterarycareerby writing poetry and reporting for magazines.
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