Chautauqua Prize
The Chautauqua Prize | |
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Date | Annual |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Chautauqua Institution |
First awarded | 2012 |
Website | http://www.ciweb.org/prize |
The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012.[1][2] The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua.[2] It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."[3]
Winners and runners-up
- 2012:
Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn[2] - Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
- Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
- Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
- Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos
- Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
- 2013:
Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[4] - Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club
- Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
- John Colman Wood, The Names of Things
- 2014:
Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign Cities[5] - Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness: Stories
- Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
- Roger Rosenblatt, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
- James Tobin, The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
- Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
- 2015:
Phil Klay, Redeployment[6] - Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
- Kim Church, Byrd
- Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
- Lily King, Euphoria
- Jason Sokol, All Eyes Are Upon Us
- Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great
- Jean Thompson, The Witch
- 2016:
Cyrus Copeland, Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest - Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
- Lenore Myka, King of the Gypsies: Stories
- Steven Niteingale, Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
- Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
- 2017:
Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes[7] - H. W. Brands, The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- Victoria Pope Hubbell, Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s
- Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
- Colin Woodard, American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
- Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
References
- ↑ Ron Charles (October 24, 2011). "Chautauqua Institution announces new literary prize". Washington Post. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- 1 2 3 Staff writer (April 29, 2012). "The Sojourn Wins Inaugural Chautauqua Prize". The Post-Journal. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ↑ "The Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua official website. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ↑ Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"". Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- ↑ "My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro win 2014 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. May 15, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Redeployment wins 2015 Chautauqua Prize". Westfield Republician. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Peter Ho Davies' The Fortunes wins 2017 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution News & Announcements. May 23, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
External links
- The Chautauqua Prize, official website.
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