Fiction Awards by Last Name
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Lorrie Moore
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.
Lorrie Moore Bio and Cross Links
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2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, a former mining community of two hundred people, and graduated from Morehead State University, KY. He is the author of No Heroes, The Same River Twice, Kentucky Straight, Out of the Woods, and The Good Brother. Honors for his work include Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Offutt is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Chris Offutt Bio and Cross Links
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2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Peter Orner’s first book was Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) a well-received collection of 34 stories about which writer and critic Margot Livesay said in The New York Times, “Orner doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls.” His second book is the funny, brilliant, and lyrical novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006). Similar in construction to his story collection, some of the chapters are just a page, in the novel Orner offers an extraordinary cast of characters, including Mavala Shikongo, a former guerrilla, through whose past we learn the often violent history of Namibia. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Best American Stories . Orner has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Born in Chicago, he currently lives in San Francisco.
Peter Orner Bio and Cross Links
...HideCaryl Phillips
1994 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England, and now lives in New York City. He is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels, as well as the editor of two anthologies. His latest novel, Dancing In The Dark, re-imagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship.
Caryl Phillips Bio and Cross Links
...HideRichard Powers
1999 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Richard Powers has said, “fiction can travel anywhere, and probably should.” He is the author of nine novels that explore connections among disparate disciplines such as photography, artificial intelligence, music composition, molecular biology, game theory, and American business. His recent novel, The Echo Maker, which won the 2006 National Book Award, is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation. His other novels include Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, Operation Wandering Soul, Galatea 2.2, Gain, Plowing the Dark, and The Time of Our Singing. He has been called one of the greatest American novelists of his generation.
Richard Powers Bio and Cross Links
...HideMary Rakow
2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Mary Rakow, a native Californian, has a Masters Degree in Theological Studies from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Theology from Boston College. Her first novel, The Memory Room, was published in 2002. She was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2003.
Mary Rakow Bio and Cross Links
...HideGeorge Saunders
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.
George Saunders Bio and Cross Links
...HideJoanna Scott
1999 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Joanna Scott, a professor of English at the University of Rochester, is the author of six novels including Tourmaline, The Manikin, and a short story collection, Various Antidotes. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
The Chicago Tribune notes, “Scott is a thoughtful storyteller, armed with a technical expertise…[she] has an intuitive understanding of the complicated dance between literature and life.”
Joanna Scott Bio and Cross Links
...HideLeslie Marmon Silko
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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...HideGilbert Sorrentino
1992 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Gilbert Sorrentino, “like a reckless heir to Borges, Barthelme and Groucho Marx, co-opts the language of critical discourse to subvert his audience’s preconceptions and, in so doing, redraws the boundaries of ‘acceptable’ art” (The New York Times). For much of the 1950’s and 60’s, Sorrentino published literary journals and magazines and in 1965 took a job at Grove Press where his first editing assignment was Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Sorrentino’s first novel, The Sky Changes, was published in 1966, and over 20 titles of fiction and poetry have followed. In 1973, Sorrentino published his most commercially successful work, Mulligan Stew. Of his novel, Blue Pastoral, the Atlantic Monthly says, “Sorrentino demonstrates, with a steady flow of puns, parodies, misquotations (deliberate), incorrect historical references (ditto), and hideous verse (presumably also ditto), that the country abounds in foolishness.”
Gilbert Sorrentino Bio and Cross Links
...HideAhdaf Soueif
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Ahdaf Soueif, born in Cairo, Egypt, is the author of three collections of short stories: Aisha, a collection of stories that was runner-up for The Guardian Fiction Prize, Sandpiper and other stories, and a collection of stories in Arabic which won The Cairo Book Fair Award for Best Short Stories of the Year.
Ms. Soueif is also the author of two works of fiction, In The Eye of the Sun, and her most recent novel, The Map of Love, that was short listed for The Booker Prize in 1999 and has been published in 12 countries. She is one of the most widely read Arab fiction writers in English. Ahdaf Soueif divides her time between London and Cairo.
Of her work Edward Said has said, “She has put Arab society and culture before the English reader with great ingenuity and inventiveness.”
Ahdaf Soueif Bio and Cross Links
...HideSusan Straight
2007 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
Susan Straight’s novels include I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (1993), Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (1994), The Gettin Place (1996), and Highwire Moon (2001), which was a finalist for The National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, salon.com, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Straight’s latest novel, A Million Nightingales (2007), continues her singularly beautiful exploration of race in America. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s and Zoetrope, among other publications. She has been awarded the California Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Story Award. Straight was born in Riverside, California, and lives there with her three daughters. She is professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Susan Straight Bio and Cross Links
...HideDavid Foster Wallace
1996 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
David Foster Wallace is the author of the novel Infinite Jest; three short story collections, The Broom of the System, The Girl with Curious Hair, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men; and a collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Mr. Wallace, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1996, teaches at Illinois State University in Bloomington. Mr. Wallace worked on his new fiction during his residency.
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