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The Whiting Writers Awards
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, past and future, are hidden in the judges choices. The award is given in the categories of: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwright.
Whiting Writers' Awards - Ten new writers have each been awarded honors as winners of the 18th annual (year 2002) Whiting Writers' Awards for "exceptional talent and promise." Each emerging writer received $35,000
2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Previous Winners
The Whiting
Writers' Awards are given to encourage exceptionally promising emerging
talent. The recipients are chosen by a committee of writers, literary scholars,
and editors. There is no application process.
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, 22nd floor, New
York, NY 10036. (212) 336-2138. Kellye Rosenheim, Associate Director.
Judy Blunt Nonfiction Breaking Clean A Memoir | Hardcover
Joel Brouwer Poetry Exactly What Happened | Paperback
Emily Carter Fiction Glory Goes and Gets Some A Short Story Collection | Hardcover | Paperback
Kathleen Finneran Nonfiction The Tender Land: A Family Love Story A Memoir | Hardcover
Matthew Klam Fiction Sam The Cat and Other Stories | Hardcover | Paperback
Brighde Mullins Playwright Monkey in the Middle, Fire Eater, Topographical Eden, Pathological Venus, and Baby
Akhil Sharma, Fiction, for An Obedient Father Hardcover | Paperback
Jason Sommer Poetry Lifting the Stone and Other People's Troubles | Hardcover | Paperback
Samrat Upadhyay Fiction Arresting God in Kathmandu | Paperback
John Wray Fiction The Right Hand of Sleep | Hardcover
Andrew X Pham Nonfiction Catfish and Mandala Also, on the Guardian First Book Awards shortlist 2000.
Claude Wilkinson for his poetry
Colson Whitehead for The Intuitionist | Paperback
John McManus Fiction Writer
Lily King Fiction Writer
Samantha Gillison Fiction Writer
Robert Cohen Fiction Writer
James Thomas Stevens Poet
Albert Mobilio Poet
Kelly Stuart Playwright
Previous Winners include:
Jonathan
Franzen National Book Awards Winner 2001 for
The Corrections |
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Michael Cunningham Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Faulkner The Hours - I thoroughly enjoyed this book
Tony Kushner Pulitzer Prize for drama 1993 Angels in America (Paperback) : A Gay Fantasia on National Themes : Part One : Millennium Approaches
Jorie Graham Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1996 The Dream of the Unified Field
Alice McDermott National Book Award for Charming Billy | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
Kent Haruf American Book Sense of The Year finalist Plainsong
Mary Karr PEN/Martha Albrand Award The Liar's Club: A Memoir
Stanley Crouch Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award
Mona Simpson Guggenheim grant and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University
David Foster Wallace Lannan Award for Fiction
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