Literary Awards by Last Name
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Alistair MacLeod
2003 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Alistair MacLeod, a native of Canada, was born in1936 and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is the author of three collections of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, and Island, which collects in a single volume one new story and all of his previously published short stories.
His first book of fiction, No Great Mischief about a family emigrating from Scotland in 1779, was met with great critical acclaim.
A specialist in British literature of the nineteenth century, MacLeod has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Windsor University since 1969. He and his family return every summer to Cape Breton where he spends part of his time, “writing in a cliff-top cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island.”
Alistair MacLeod Bio and Cross Links
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2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Charles C. Mann is a correspondent for Science and The Atlantic Monthly, and his most recent book is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Knopf, 2005). In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. Mann has co-written four books including Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species (Knopf, 1995) and The Second Creation (Macmillan, 1986). A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has won awards from the American Bar Association, the Margaret Sanger Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among others. His writing was selected for The Best American Science Writing 2003 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.
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...HideMicheline Aharonian Marcom
2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Los Angeles. Her first book, Three Apples Fell from Heaven, set in Turkey between 1915-1917, depicts the Ottoman government’s epic genocide of the Armenian population and was named one of the best books of the year by both The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom Bio and Cross Links
...HideRubén Martínez
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Rubén Martínez is an award-winning journalist, author and performer. He is the author of four books: Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City (with Joseph Rodriguez, Powerhouse Books, 2006), The New Americans (The New Press, 2004), Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (Picador, 2002), Eastside Stories (with Joseph Rodriguez, Powerhouse Books, 1998), and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond (Vintage, 1993). His essays, opinions and reportage have appeared widely in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Village Voice, The Nation, Spin, Sojourners, and Mother Jones. His numerous awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is Professor, Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University, and is currently at work on a book about race, class, and representation in the American Southwest.
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...HidePeter Matthiessen
2002 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Peter Matthiessen, born in 1927, is a writer, naturalist, and explorer who has been praised as one of the “shamans of literature.” Mr. Matthiessen, whose work has been influenced by his practice of Zen Buddhism and his interest in indigenous cultures, lives in Sagaponack, New York.
Peter Matthiessen Bio and Cross Links
...HideJohn McGahern
2003 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and resides in County Leitrim, Ireland. Generally considered by critics to be one of his country’s greatest living writers, McGahern is the author of five novels, which include the celebrated Amongst Women, published in 1990, and four collections of short stories.
In his most recent novel, By the Lake, he writes of life in a close-knit Irish rural community where, “the days disappear in the attendance of small tasks.” Of McGahern Irish poet and literary critic Seamus Deane says, “At last an Irish author has awakened from the nightmare of history and given us a sense of liberation which is not dependent on flight or emigration or escape.”
John McGahern Bio and Cross Links
...HideMichael McGriff
2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. His books include Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010), and a co-translation (with Mikaela Grassl) of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer Books, 2010). His next collection of poems, The Sequence of the Night, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. McGriff’s poetry and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Agni, Slate, The Believer, Field, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, and Poetry, among other publications. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, The Balcones Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, The Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, a Stegner Fellowship, and a James A. Michener Fellowship. McGriff is a former Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and will be the Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University during the spring of 2011. He is the co-founder and co-editor (with Carl Adamshick) of Tavern Books, an independent publisher of poetry in translation. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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...HideEdie Meidav
2007 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Edie Meidav’s first novel, The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon (2001), grew out of her time in Sri Lanka on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her second, Crawl Space (2005), is currently being adapted for film. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman, an Editor’s Choice citation by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and elsewhere, and, most recently, the Bard Fiction Prize for Writers Under 40. She lives with her family in upstate New York where she is a visiting writer at Bard College.
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...HideDinaw Mengestu
2007 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. In 1980 he immigrated to the United States with his mother and sister, joining his father, who had fled the communist revolution in Ethiopia two years before. A graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction, Mengestu has written for many publications. He recently reported stories for Harper’s and Jane magazine, profiling a young woman who was kidnapped and forced to become a soldier in the brutal war in Uganda, and for Rolling Stone on the tragedy in Darfur. His first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (titled Children of the Revolution in Britain), has been nominated for The Guardian First Book Award in the U.K. and the Prix Femina Étranger in France, and earned him a place as one of the U.S. National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” for 2007. He is also the recipient of a 2006 fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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...HideW.S. Merwin
2004 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
W.S. Merwin poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America, with a career spanning five decades. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator.
Over the years, his poetic voice has moved from the more formal and medieval to a more distinctly American voice. W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry is perhaps his most personal, arising from his deeply held anti-imperialist, pacifist, and environmentalist beliefs. In 2005 he will have three new books: Migration: Selected Poems 1951-2001; a book of poems called Present Company; and the memoir Summer Doorways which chronicles his days as a student in seminary school and at Princeton, through the next years spent as a tutor for children of privilege living abroad.
William Merwin was the recipient of the 2004 Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award.
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...HideLorrie Moore
2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collection Birds of America (described as “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” by The New York Times Book Review), Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. In her new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, Moore turns her eye to the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love. The New York Times calls it, “Her most powerful book yet…The novel explores, with enormous emotional precision, the limitations and insufficiencies of love, and the loneliness that haunts even the most doting of families.” Moore is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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...HideC. E. Morgan
2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship
C. E. Morgan studied English and voice at Berea College, KY, and holds an M.A. in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently living in Virginia and at work on her second novel. Her first novel, All the Living, (2009), won the Weatherford Award as the outstanding fiction work depicting Appalachia and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway First Fiction Book Award, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction. She was also selected as one of the winners of the National Book Award’s “5 under 35” award for young writers and is included in the 2010 New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching.
C. E. Morgan Bio and Cross Links
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