Literary Awards by Last Name
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Mavis Gallant
2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Mavis Gallant, born in Canada, was dispatched at four to her first boarding school. In her 20s, she worked as a journalist before moving to Paris in 1950. She is the author of three novels and thirteen collections of short stories. A master of the latter form, her stories are witty, sharp, and polished and frequently play with the balance between real and believed or altered memory.
At 81, she is still writing fiction and editing her journals, her observations of Europe for 50 years, for publication. Gallant’s current editor at The New Yorker, Daniel Manaker, says of her work, “Writers of her caliber in any given genre are three or four a century.” She herself says, “Literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.”
Mavis Gallant Bio and Cross Links
...HideWilliam Gass
1997 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
William Gass is a novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher. Mr. Gass, whose books include Cartesian Sonata, The Tunnel, and Omensetter’s Luck, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. William Gass states in his essay Culture, Self, and Society , “A culture morally and functionally fails which does not let its crazies, its artists and its saints, its scientists and politicians, claim, on occasion, a higher law than its own congresses can pass, traditions permit, or conscience conceive.”
William Gass Bio and Cross Links
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1999 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Louise Glück says of writing, “[It] is not decanting of personality. The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned.”
Glück was appointed the United States Poet Laureate in 2003. She is the author of numerous books of poetry including The Seven Ages, and The Wild Iris, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent publication is a chapbook called October, identifying with the season of autumn, the dark of it and the beauty of it.
Louise Glück Bio and Cross Links
...HideLinda Gregg
2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Linda Gregg was born in Suffren, New York, grew up in bucolic Marin County, California, and has traveled extensively. Her poetry collections include Things and Flesh, Chosen by the Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, and Too Bright to See.
She has taught at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and the University of California-Berkeley. She has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and she is the 2003 winner of the Sara Teasdale Award. Gregg lives in New York City.
Linda Gregg Bio and Cross Links
...HideSeamus Heaney
1990 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Born into a Catholic farming family in Northern Ireland in 1939, he has been a resident of the Irish Republic since 1972.
Since 1981 he has spent part of each year teaching at Harvard University, where he served as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory from 1984 to 1998, and is now the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence.
Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, uses all aspects of Irish culture, history, folklore, song, myth, and religion to write poetry that not only describes the Irish experience to the reader, but also allows the reader to feel the experience and emotions of the Irish people. He received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1990.
Seamus Heaney Bio and Cross Links
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2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Chris Hedges, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. He is the author of the best-selling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Public Affairs, 2002), which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. His most recent book is Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America (Free Press, 2005). Hedges is also the author of What Every Person Should Know About War (Free Press, 2003) and will publish American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press) in January 2007.
Chris Hedges Bio and Cross Links
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1991 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Christopher Hitchens’ books include The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice; For the Sake of Argument; and Blood, Class, and Nostalgia. With Edward Said, he has edited Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and The Question of Palestine. Mr. Hitchens received a Lannan Literary Award in 1991.
Christopher Hitchens Bio and Cross Links
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2005 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Adam Hochschild is a writer and a founding editor of Mother Jones. His books include Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son; The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey; The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin; Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels; the acclaimed King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa; and, most recently, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves.
Hochschild is a former commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and lives in San Francisco.
Adam Hochschild Bio and Cross Links
...HideFreeman House
2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Freeman House is a former commercial salmon fisher who has been involved with a community-based watershed restoration effort in northern California for more than twenty-five years. He is a co-founder of the Mattole Salmon Group and the Mattole Restoration Council.
His book, Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species received the best nonfiction award from the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for quality of prose.
Freeman House Bio and Cross Links
...HideLewis Hyde
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Lewis Hyde, Luce Professor of Art and Politics at Kenyon College, is the author of Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art, an exploration of the “trickster” character who appears in the myths and traditional stories of many cultures.
He also has written, edited, and translated several books, including This Error is the Sign of Love; Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking; On the Work of Allen Ginsberg; and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property.
Lewis Hyde Bio and Cross Links
...HideGish Jen
1999 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Gish Jen has published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, among other periodicals, as well as in numerous textbooks and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.
Jen has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Fulbright Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently holds a Strauss Living from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1999 she was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
She has published three novels. Her first book, Typical American (Houghton Mifflin, 1991), was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Its sequel, Mona in the Promised Land (Knopf, 1996), was named one of the ten best books of 1996 by The Los Angeles Times. Her third novel is called The Love Wife. A story collection, Who’s Irish?, was published by Knopf in 1999. All of her books have been New York Times notable books.
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2003 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Edward P. Jones (Fiction) was born in 1950 in Washington, DC. He received a scholarship to Holy Cross College and earned his MFA at the University of Virginia. He has taught fiction at Princeton University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland. For 19 years, prior to being laid off in early 2002, he worked for a tax analysis firm in Arlington, VA. Following the publication in 1992 of his short story collection, Lost in the City, he won a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a PEN/Hemingway Award and the collection was short-listed for a National Book Award. His first novel, The Known World, published in 2003, is also short-listed for a National Book Award.
Edward P. Jones Bio and Cross Links
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