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Category: Awards
Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Lauren Groff on This Year’s Winners and the “Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising” Short Story Form. Read more
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Jamil Jan Kochai Wins Aspen Words Literary Prize
Jamil Jan Kochai wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize for his short stories focused on the absurdity and violence Afghans have endured. Read more
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Yiyun Li’s ‘The Book of Goose’ Wins PEN/Faulkner Award
Yiyun Li’s novel “The Book of Goose,” the story of two mischievous teenage girls in post-World War II France and their improbable literary success, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Read more
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The National Book Foundation Announces its ‘5 Under 35’ Winners
5 Under 35 honorees are writers from around the world, under the age of 35, who have published their first and only book of fiction—either a short story collection or a novel—within the last five years. Read more
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2023 Whiting Awards Recognize 10 Emerging Writers
The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which were announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize’s judges. The Whiting Awards aim to “recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent, giving most winners their first chance to devote themselves full time to their own writing, or to take bold new risks in their work…” Read more
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Rathbones Folio Prize Names Its 2023 Winners
…England’s Rathbones Folio Prize in February announced three categories of competition–fiction, nonfiction, and poetry–for the winners being announced at a program tonight in London (March 27). Not only the three category winners but an overall “book of the year” prize drawn from those three has been announced in that British Library soiree. Read more
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced
Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City. Read more
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Ling Ma’s ‘Bliss Montage’ Wins $20,000 Story Prize
Ling Ma’s “Bliss Montage,” a collection which blends the real and the surreal, has won the Story Prize for best short fiction … The two other finalists, Andrea Barrett for “Natural History” and Morgan Talty for “Night of the Living Rez,” each will get $5,000. Read more
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Winners of the 2023 Bancroft Prize Announced
The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” Read more
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