Literary Awards by Last Name
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Judy Budnitz
2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Judy Budnitz’s stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and McSweeney’s, and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
She is the author of, most recently, Nice Big American Baby, and Flying Leap, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998. Her novel, If I Told You Once, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom. She lives in San Francisco and is at Princeton University for the Fall 2005 semester as a Council of the Humanities Fellow.
Judy Budnitz Bio and Cross Links
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2005 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
David G. Campbell, scientist, educator and author, joined the scientific staff of the New York Botanical Garden after earning a PhD at Johns Hopkins. He spent eight years in the field in the Brazilian Amazon conducting research on the biogeography of trees. In 1987 he joined the sixth Brazilian expedition to Antarctica, studying the life cycles and pathologies of the invertebrate parasites of crustaceans, fish and seals.
He is the author of The Ephemeral Islands: A Natural History of the Bahamas; The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica; Islands in Space and Time, and most recently, A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia. He is currently Professor of Biology at Grinnell College in Iowa.
David G. Campbell Bio and Cross Links
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1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics who lives in Montreal. Her books include Men in the Off Hours; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater; Glass, Irony, and God; and Eros the Bittersweet.
Ms. Carson, who received a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, has said, “I will do anything to avoid boredom…It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”
Ms. Carson teaches at McGill University.
Anne Carson Bio and Cross Links
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1993 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four books of poetry, including his most recent collection, More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Lambda Literary Award. He is a tenured associate professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos.
Cyrus Cassells Bio and Cross Links
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1992 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Thomas Centolella is the author of several books of poetry including Terra Firma, selected by Denise Levertov for the 1990 National Poetry Series, and Lights & Mysteries, which received the 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. In 1992 he was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Mr. Centolella was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Marin California, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program. He is currently living in San Francisco. He has just completed his third book of poetry.
During his residency Mr. Centolella worked on new poems and some short prose pieces and gave a public reading at Downtown Subscription in Santa Fe.
Thomas Centolella Bio and Cross Links
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1992 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Noam Chomsky, who has said, “If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all,” was born in 1928 in Philadelphia. After receiving his doctorate in linguistics, Chomsky began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It was during this time that he became more publicly engaged in politics arguing against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Since then, he has been well known for his progressive political views, and has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
Noam Chomsky Bio and Cross Links
...HideSandra Cisneros
1991 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Sandra Cisneros is the author of the books The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, and Loose Women. Ms. Cisneros received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1991.
Sandra Cisneros Bio and Cross Links
...HideKillarney Clary
1992 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Killarney Clary, who received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1992, has published two books of poetry, Who Whispered Near Me, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and By Common Salt.
In a review of Who Whispered Near Me, Gary Young wrote, “There is no glamour here, little drama. Her subjects are prosaic, but her prose captures the internal rhythms of both memory and casual speech, and has been wrenched into a fierce lyricism. Clary’s poetry is a gymnastic of mind. We may feel submerged, lost in someone else’s thought, but her poems are maps, and Clary leads us surely through a maze we discover is nothing less than the rich pattern of a life.”
Ms. Clary was born in Los Angles in 1954, and was educated at the University of California at Irvine, where she received degrees in studio art and poetry writing. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
Killarney Clary Bio and Cross Links
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1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in Depew, New York. Her luminous and incisive poems have been published in nine books, including The Book of Light, Quilting, and Next.
Ms. Clifton has said, “I’ve always been a person who found more interesting the stories between the stories. I’ve always wondered the hows and the whys to things. Why is this like this? What has gone into making us who we are? Is it good or not so good? What is destroying us? What will keep us warm?”
Ms. Clifton, who has also written numerous books for children, received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996. She is Distinguished Professor for Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Lucille Clifton Bio and Cross Links
...HideJ.M. Coetzee
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
J.M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa. His novels include The Master of Petersburg, Age of Iron, The Life and Times of Michael K., Waiting for the Barbarians, In the Heart of the Country, and Disgrace. He has also written a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
Mr. Coetzee, who is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, teaches at the University of Cape Town and the University of Chicago.
J.M. Coetzee Bio and Cross Links
...HideRobert Coover
2000 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Robert Coover has been described by The New York Times as, “one of America’s quirkiest writers, if by ‘quirky’ we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules and a conviction that a novel is primarily a verbal artifact unconvertible to other media.” His novel, The Public Burning, is a long and fantastic fictional account of the events surrounding the executions for espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1952, whose principal narrator identifies himself as the then-Vice President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. His other publications include Spanking the Maid, Gerald’s Party, Pinocchio in Venice, and Briar Rose.
Robert Coover Bio and Cross Links
...HideRobert Creeley
2001 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Creeley, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, and teacher, was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926. He entered Harvard University in 1943, leaving after one year to drive an ambulance in India and Burma during World War II.
During the 1950s, after dropping out of Harvard, he taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and was an editor of its innovative literary journal, the Black Mountain Review.
Robert Creeley Bio and Cross Links
...HideAnn Cummins
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Born in the southern Rocky Mountain town of Durango, Colorado, Ann Cummins writes frequently about working class people. During the early part of the 20th century, her family migrated from County Galway, Ireland, to Colorado, where they mined silver, coal, and uranium.
When Cummins was nine, her father—a uranium mill worker—moved the family to Shiprock, New Mexico, in the northern part of the Navajo Indian Reservation, where Ann graduated from high school. Although her work extends beyond her ties to the southwest, she is often drawn by landscape and custom to write about the region of her birth.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Ann Cummins has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories, 2002, among numerous other publications.
The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, she divides her time between Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, musician S. E. Willis, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.
Ann Cummins Bio and Cross Links
...HideCharles D'Ambrosio
2008 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Charles D’Ambrosio is from the Pacific Northwest. He has an MFA from Iowa where he currently teaches writing. His short stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker and other literary journals and have been selected for inclusion in numerous anthologies. His first collection, The Point (1995), was a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2005, he published a brilliant collection of essays called Orphans. Following the release in 2006 of his second book of short fiction, The Dead Fish Museum, D’Ambrosio received the Whiting Award and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the collection was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Charles D'Ambrosio Bio and Cross Links
...HideEdwidge Danticat
2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Krik? Krak!, a collection of short stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. Danitcat’s latest novel, The Dew Breaker, spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the U.S. who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a prison escapee, but a former prison guard and skilled torturer.
When asked about being a role model for her country she replied, “There are millions and millions of Haitian voices. Mine is only one. My greatest hope is that mine becomes one voice in a giant chorus that is trying to understand and express artistically what it’s like to be a Haitian immigrant in the United States.” Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughter.
Edwidge Danticat Bio and Cross Links
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