it is clear that the thing I am referring to is a compound modifier. In English, we all do it automatically. For example, we can short-list something, or put it on a short list.)
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How do you use a modifier with that kind of term?
One school of thought is that you use an en dash.
Or, heh, this is en dash–related trivia.
But (and this is the point of this ramble) this works with a well-known term with initial capitals like Nobel Prize.
‘She is a literary prize–winning author’ could be seen to mean that she is a literary person who has won prizes, not necessarily literary prizes.
So: She is a literary–prize-winning author.