Some awards are given for single works, others for lifetime achievements. This category gathers together the news articles about the latter.
To see all the latest literary awards news, see the front page of The Burnt Ones: Literary Awards News.
Elizabeth Alexander wins Jackson Poetry Prize
Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Elizabeth Alexander, an author of four books of poems, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize which is awarded for a published American poet who has not yet received any major national acclaim.
Alexander, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, is a professor of African-American studies at Yale University.
You can purchase Elizabeth Alexander’s work at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Filed under American literature, English literature, Lifetime awards, Poetry, Winners
Thomas Harris wins lifetime horror award
Date: January 16, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Thomas Harris, best known for his Hannibal Lecter novels that have been filmed as The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon has been given the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association.
For more about Harris’s work, see Amazon.com and at Amazon.co.uk.
Filed under American literature, English literature, Fiction, Horror, Lifetime awards, Novels, Winners
2006 Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner announced
Date: December 1, 2006 | Discussion: 1 Comment
Antonio Gamoneda has been awarded the 2006 Miguel de Cervates Prize, which annually recognises the lifetime work of a poet who writes in Spanish. The prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, is worth $120,000.
Gamoneda, who was born in 1931 and published his first collection in 1960, is perhaps best known for Libro del frÃo (1992) and Arden las pérdidas (2003). To the best of my knowledge, none of his works are available in English.
Filed under European literature, Lifetime awards, Poetry, Winners, World literature
2006 Patrick White Award announced
Date: November 11, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The recipient of the 2006 Patrick White Award has been announced. The annual prize, which was established in 1973 by the Australian novelist Patrick White with the money he received for his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, is given to a writer who has not received adequate recognition despite of his or her long literary career.
This year’s prize goes to Morris Lurie. Wikipedia describes Lurie as
“an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children’s books. His work focuses on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie’s generation, who are invariably jazz fans.” (source)
You can read more about Lurie’s work at Amazon.com and at Amazon.co.uk.
Filed under Australian literature, English literature, Fiction, Lifetime awards, Short stories, Winners
Haruki Murakami awarded Franz Kafka literary prize
Date: October 31, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The internationally popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami has received the Franz Kafka literary prize in Prague. The $10,000 prize was given to the writer for his worldwide appeal that the organizers compared with that of Kafka.
Murakami has often referred to Kafka as his favourite author. Murakami’s 2002 novel Kafka on the Shore (pictured here) even borrows the name of the title character from the Czech writer himself.
Filed under Asian literature, Fiction, Lifetime awards, Novels, Winners, World literature
National Book Foundation Awards Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Date: September 21, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
The National Book Foundation has announced the recipient of the 2006 Dinstinguished Contribution to American Letters. The annual award is given to “a person who has enriched [American] literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work.”
This year, the award is given to Adrienne Rich. In their press release, the National Book Foundation describes Rich by stating that “For more than fifty years, her eloquent and visionary writings have shaped the world of poetry as well as feminist and political thought. She won the National Book Award in 1974.”
