Chautauqua Prize
The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012.[1][2] The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua.[2] It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."[3]
The Chautauqua Prize | |
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Date | Annual |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Chautauqua Institution |
First awarded | 2012 |
Website | http://www.ciweb.org/prize |
Winners and runners-up
- 2012:
Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn[2]- Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
- Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
- Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
- Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos
- Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
- 2013:
Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[4]- Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club
- Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
- John Colman Wood, The Names of Things
- 2014:
Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign Cities[5]- Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness: Stories
- Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
- Roger Rosenblatt, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
- James Tobin, The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
- Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
- 2015:
Phil Klay, Redeployment[6]- Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
- Kim Church, Byrd
- Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
- Lily King, Euphoria
- Jason Sokol, All Eyes Are Upon Us
- Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great
- Jean Thompson, The Witch
- 2016:
Cyrus Copeland, Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest- Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
- Lenore Myka, King of the Gypsies: Stories
- Steven Niteingale, Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
- Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
- 2017:
Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes[7]- H. W. Brands, The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- Victoria Pope Hubbell, Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s
- Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
- Colin Woodard, American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
- Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
- 2018:
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir[8]- Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
- Glenn Frankel, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
- Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
- Meg Howrey, The Wanderers
- Andrew Krivák, The Signal Flame
- Dalia Rosenfeld, The Worlds We Think We Know
- 2019:
Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God[9]- Edward Carey, Little
- Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
- Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir
- Richard Powers, The Overstory
- Elizabeth Rush, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
- Elizabeth H. Winthrop, The Mercy Seat
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References
- Ron Charles (October 24, 2011). "Chautauqua Institution announces new literary prize". Washington Post. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- Staff writer (April 29, 2012). "The Sojourn Wins Inaugural Chautauqua Prize". The Post-Journal. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- "The Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua official website. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"". Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- "My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro win 2014 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. May 15, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
- "Redeployment wins 2015 Chautauqua Prize". Westfield Republician. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
- "Peter Ho Davies' The Fortunes wins 2017 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution News & Announcements. May 23, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
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External links
- The Chautauqua Prize, official website.
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