Literary Awards by Last Name
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Brian Turner
2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection. His poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology. Here, Bullet is a harrowing, beautiful first-person account of the Iraq war featuring poems that reflect Turner’s experiences as a soldier. The poems speak with compassion, sympathy, and horror of the first-hand experience of war and with immediacy of loss, beauty, comradeship, and longing for home and the familiar; he deplores the violence and acknowledges the grief and terror of war.
Brian Turner Bio and Cross Links
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2004 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Luís Alberto Urrea, poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer, was born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1955 and grew up in San Diego. Steeped in personal knowledge of US/Mexico border culture, he is best known for his numerous books and essays where he writes “with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal.”(Boston Globe) His autobiographical Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life won an American Book Award in 1999, and Across the Wire was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1993.
The son of an Anglo-American mother and a Mexican father, he says, “Home isn’t just a place, it is also a language.”
Luís Alberto Urrea Bio and Cross Links
...HideFrank X Walker
2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Frank X Walker is a co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets and teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. He was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2005. His poetry books include Buffalo Dance:The Journey of York and the recent Black Box. Mr. Walker is a native of Danville, KY, and is the editor of Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium. He lives in Cincinnati, OH.
Frank X Walker Bio and Cross Links
...HideDavid Foster Wallace
1996 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
David Foster Wallace is the author of the novel Infinite Jest; three short story collections, The Broom of the System, The Girl with Curious Hair, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men; and a collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Mr. Wallace, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1996, teaches at Illinois State University in Bloomington. Mr. Wallace worked on his new fiction during his residency.
David Foster Wallace Bio and Cross Links
...HideBruce Weigl
2006 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Bruce Weigl is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently Declension in the Village of Chung Luong which created “an eloquent spokesman for an entire generation of Americans whose lives were broken by the war and a country whose moral confusion desperately needed addressing.” His memoir, The Circle of Hahn, tells of his childhood in Ohio; his induction into the U.S. Army in 1967, and year in Vietnam that led to his passion for that country’s poetry and culture; and of a redemptive meeting in 1996 with his daughter-to-be at an orphanage outside Hanoi. He also has three collections of essays as well as translating and publishing books of Vietnamese poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harpers, and many other publications. In 2006 he was awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Bruce Weigl Bio and Cross Links
...HideLawrence Weschler
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. His most recent work is Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences . Weschler, awarded a Lannan Award for Nonfiction in 1999, is currently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Lawrence Weschler Bio and Cross Links
...HideTerry Tempest Williams
1993 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classics, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red – Patience and Passion in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her new book, Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, will be published in 2008.
Terry Tempest Williams Bio and Cross Links
...HideLarry Woiwode
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Larry Woiwode was born in North Dakota and began his writing life under the mentorship of the New Yorker editor William Maxwell. He is the author of Beyond the Bedroom Wall; What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts; Poppa John; Born Brothers; Indian Affairs; and Silent Passengers.
Larry Woiwode Bio and Cross Links
...HideC.D. Wright
1999 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
C.D. Wright can be described in many ways: she is an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvents herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
She has written ten volumes of poetry and recently published Cooling Time, a book comprised of poetry, memoir and essay. In it she writes, “Many writers maintain a guarded border between language thick with hair and twigs and the reified, rarified stuff. No matter which side of the border poets live on, they tend to act as if they were being overrun. All I want is a day pass. I like to sleep in my own bed.” A recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, Wright is a professor of English at Brown University. With her husband, poet Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.
C.D. Wright Bio and Cross Links
...HideJay Wright
2000 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Jay Wright is a poet and playwright whose work focuses largely on personal biography, African American historical experience, and spiritual quests. Mr. Wright has been praised by critic Harold Bloom as “an authentic poet of the Sublime…laboring to make us forsake easier pleasures for more difficult pleasures.”
Mr. Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and played semi-professional baseball before studying literature at the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, his poetry books include Boleros, The Double Invention of Komo, Dimensions of History, and Soothsayers and Omens.
Jay Wright Bio and Cross Links
...HideLois-Ann Yamanaka
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Lois-Ann Yamanaka was born on the island of Moloka’i in Hawaii. She has written three novels, Heads by Harry; Blu’s Hanging; and Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, and a collection of poetry; Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre.
Ms. Yamanaka, who writes in Hawaiian Creole English, a language stigmatized by its association with the immigrant class, has said, “I am devoted to telling stories the way I have experienced them—cultural identity and linguistic identity being skin and flesh to my body.”
Ms. Yamanaka received a Lannan Literary Award in 1998.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka Bio and Cross Links
...HideHoward Zinn
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is the author of twenty books, including You Can’t Remain Neutral on a Moving Train, a powerful memoir of his life and political activism, and A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present, a history written from the standpoint of those who have been marginalized politically and economically and whose struggles have been largely omitted from most histories.
Howard Zinn Bio and Cross Links
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