Literary Awards by Year
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Peter 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.
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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.
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...HideDeborah Levy
2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Deborah Levy, playwright, novelist and poet, was born in 1959 in South Africa and after moving to Britain studied at Dartington College of Arts and Trinity College, Cambridge. Her novels include Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl and most recently, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places, a collection of short stories.
Levy was awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship in 2001 and lives in London.
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2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship
David Wong Louie was born and raised in New York and was educated at Vassar College and The University of Iowa.
He is the author of the novel The Barbarians are Coming and the short story collection Pangs of Love, which won The Los Angeles Times Book Review First Fiction Award, the Ploughshares First Fiction Book Award, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1991 and a Voice Literary Supplement Favorite of 1991. He was also awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship in 2001.
Louie currently teaches in the Department of English and the Asian-American Studies Center at UCLA and lives in Venice, CA.
David Wong Louie Bio and Cross Links
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2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Lorrie Moore was born in Glen Falls, New York, and was educated at St Lawrence and Cornell Universities. Her books include Self-Help, Anagrams, The Forgotten Helper, Like Life, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital and Birds of America.
She has received numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1991 and a Lannan Writing Fellowship in 2001.
Moore is currently Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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2001 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
Edward Said, a renowned cultural and literary critic, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and was educated there, in Egypt, and the United States.
His books include Orientalism; The Question of Palestine; Covering Islam; Culture and Imperialism; Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography; Representations of the Intellectual; and The Politics of Dispossession. He has also published a memoir, Out of Place.
Mr. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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2001 Lannan Literary Fellowship
George Saunders has published two collections of stories, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and a children’s story, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip.
Of his propensity to use theme parks in many of his stories he says, “Basically, using theme parks creates a sort of cartoon-like mood, and that keeps me from trying to launch into some earnest, twenty-page description of some character’s childhood.” His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story, and many other publications.
He won the National Magazine Award in 1994 for his story The 400-pound CEO and again in 1996 for the story Bounty. He has explored for oil in Sumatra, played guitar in a Texas bar band, and worked in a slaughterhouse.
Saunders, whom the Atlantic Monthly says “may be the most talented goof-off writing fiction today,” currently teaches at Syracuse University.
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2000 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of mixed ancestry — Anglo, Mexican, and Native American — and grew up at Laguna Pueblo. The Pueblo has been home to members of her family for generations and is where she learned traditional stories and legends from female relatives.
She is the author of six books which include poetry, fiction, and essays. In her novel Garden in the Dunes, Silko takes the reader on a grand tour of Europe in the era of Henry James, as seen through the eyes of a young Native American girl, Indigo, who is in flight from the destruction at the hands of the whites of her own tribal world.
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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.
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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.
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...HideDennis O'Driscoll
1999 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
Dennis O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s most widely published and respected critics of poetry, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being Exemplary Damages. He has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, and the Harvard Review. O’Driscoll, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1999, was a featured author for Readings & Conversations in 2001 and 2003.
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...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.
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