Fiction 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
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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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1994 Lannan Literary Award for FictionEdward 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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2007 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
A. L. Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1965 and lives in Glasgow. Her books include three collections of stories, six novels, and two works of nonfiction. Since the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (1991), Kennedy has been acclaimed for her innovative voice. Other titles include So I Am Glad (1995), Everything You Need (1999), Indelible Acts: Stories (2004), and Paradise (2005). Her latest novel, Day (2007), is set during and after World War II. She has received many literary prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award, and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Kennedy has been a long-time columnist for The Guardian newspaper, a judge for the Booker and Orange Prizes, a journalist and reviewer, and a university lecturer. Of fiction she has said, “It is the form that proves most deeply that other human beings are as human as we are.”
A. L. Kennedy Bio and Cross Links
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1999 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Jamaica Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, West Indies. She is the author of My Brother, a memoir of her relationship with her brother who died of AIDS, which was nominated for the National Book Award.
She has also written three novels, The Autobiography of My Mother, Lucy, and Annie John, and a collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River. Critic Michiko Kakutani has said, “She writes with passion and conviction, and she also writes with a musical sense of language, a poet’s understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur.”
She lives in Bennington, Vermont, with her family.
Jamaica Kincaid Bio and Cross Links
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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.
Deborah Levy Bio and Cross Links
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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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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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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
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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
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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.
Edie Meidav Bio and Cross Links
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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.
Dinaw Mengestu Bio and Cross Links
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