Award
| Chautauqua Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | Annual |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Chautauqua Institution |
| First awarded | 2012 |
| Website | www |
The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. 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."
Honorees
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Andrew Krivak | The Sojourn | Winner | |
| Geraldine Brooks | Caleb's Crossing | Shortlist | ||
| Erik Larson | In the Garden of Beasts | Shortlist | ||
| Nathaniel Philbrick | Why Read Moby-Dick? | Shortlist | ||
| Stephanie Powell Watts | We Are Taking Only What We Need | Shortlist | ||
| Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos | Shortlist | ||
| 2013 | Timothy Egan | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher | Winner | |
| Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy | The Presidents Club | Shortlist | ||
| Ben Fountain | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Winner | ||
| Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove | Shortlist | ||
| Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | Shortlist | ||
| John Colman Wood | The Names of Things | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Elizabeth Scarboro | My Foreign Cities | Winner | |
| Louise Aronson | A History of the Present Illness: Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Lindsay Hill | Sea of Hooks | Shortlist | ||
| Roger Rosenblatt | The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood | Shortlist | ||
| James Tobin | The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency | Shortlist | ||
| Margaret Wrinkle | Wash | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | Winner | |
| Michael Blanding | The Map Thief | Shortlist | ||
| Kim Church | Byrd | Shortlist | ||
| Brian Hart | The Bully of Order | Shortlist | ||
| Lily King | Euphoria | Shortlist | ||
| Jason Sokol | All Eyes Are Upon Us | Shortlist | ||
| Bilal Tanweer | The Scatter Here Is Too Great | Shortlist | ||
| Jean Thompson | The Witch | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Cyrus Copeland | Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest | Winner | |
| Lynsey Addario | It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War | Shortlist | ||
| Lenore Myka | King of the Gypsies: Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Steven Niteingale | Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God | Shortlist | ||
| Susan Southard | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Peter Ho Davies | The Fortunes | Winner | |
| H. W. Brands | The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War | Shortlist | ||
| Victoria Pope Hubbell | Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s | Shortlist | ||
| Ben Winters | Underground Airlines | Shortlist | ||
| Colin Woodard | American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good | Shortlist | ||
| Kao Kalia Yang | The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father | Shortlist | ||
| 2018 | Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir | Winner | |
| Hala Alyan | Salt Houses | Shortlist | ||
| Glenn Frankel | High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic | Shortlist | ||
| Anne Gisleson | The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading | Shortlist | ||
| Meg Howrey | The Wanderers | Shortlist | ||
| Andrew Krivák | The Signal Flame | Shortlist | ||
| Dalia Rosenfeld | The Worlds We Think We Know | Shortlist | ||
| 2019 | Anjali Sachdeva | All the Names They Used For God | Winner | |
| Edward Carey | Little | Shortlist | ||
| Ken Krimstein | The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth | Shortlist | ||
| Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir | Shortlist | ||
| Richard Powers | The Overstory | Shortlist | ||
| Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Shortlist | ||
| Elizabeth H. Winthrop | The Mercy Seat | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Petina Gappah | Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Winner | |
| Mikhal Dekel | Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey | Shortlist | ||
| Carolyn Forché | What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance | Shortlist | ||
| Myla Goldberg | Feast Your Eyes | Shortlist | ||
| Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | Shortlist | ||
| Imani Perry | Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Shortlist | ||
| Pitchaya Sudbanthad | Bangkok Wakes to Rain | Shortlist | ||
| 2021 | Eula Biss | Having and Being Had | Winner | |
| Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | Shortlist | ||
| Danielle Evans | The Office of Historical Corrections | Shortlist | ||
| Yaa Gyasi | Transcendent Kingdom | Shortlist | ||
| Andrew Krivak | The Bear | Shortlist | ||
| Natasha Trethewey | Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir | Shortlist | ||
| Matthew Van Meter | Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South | Shortlist | ||
| C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills is Gold | Shortlist | ||
| 2022 | Rebecca Donner | All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler | Winner | |
| Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Shortlist | ||
| Victoria Chang | Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief | Shortlist | ||
| Ash Davidson | Damnation Spring | Shortlist | ||
| Robert Jones, Jr. | The Prophets | Shortlist | ||
| Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | Shortlist | ||
| Jason Mott | Hell of a Book | Shortlist | ||
| Samantha Silva | Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft | Shortlist | ||
| Dorothy Wickenden | The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights | Shortlist | ||
| Hilma Wolitzer | Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories | Shortlist | ||
| 2023 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human | Winner | |
| Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin | Shortlist | ||
| Levi Vonk with Axel Kirschner | Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run | Shortlist | ||
| Meron Hadero | A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Jenny Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky | Shortlist | ||
| Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Shortlist | ||
| Jean Hanff Korelitz | The Latecomer | Shortlist | ||
| Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry | The Orchard | Shortlist | ||
| Javier Zamora | Solito: A Memoir | Shortlist | ||
| Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Shortlist | ||
| 2024 | Tananarive Due | The Reformatory | Winner | |
| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All-Stars | Shortlist | ||
| Isabella Hammad | Enter Ghost | Shortlist | ||
| Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Shortlist | ||
| Kelly Link | White Cat, Black Dog: Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Emily Strasser | Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History | Shortlist |
References
- Ron Charles (October 24, 2011). "Chautauqua Institution announces new literary prize". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 24, 2017. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- ^ "The Sojourn Wins Inaugural Chautauqua Prize". The Post-Journal. April 29, 2012. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
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- "Awards: Chautauqua; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse". Shelf Awareness. May 16, 2013. Archived from the original on August 18, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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- "Awards: Nebulas; Chautauqua; Anthonys". Shelf Awareness. May 24, 2017. Archived from the original on April 17, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- Long, Karen R. (July 14, 2017). "Novelist Peter Ho Davies Accepts 2017 Chautauqua Prize, Muses On Identity And Nuance In "The Fortunes"". Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Los Angeles Times Winners; Chautauqua Finalists; Jackson Poetry". Shelf Awareness. April 24, 2017. Archived from the original on March 10, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- "Awards: Chautauqua; MacDowell; CrimeFest". Shelf Awareness. May 22, 2018. Archived from the original on March 10, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Chautauqua Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. April 26, 2018. Archived from the original on September 21, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- "Sachdeva Wins Chautauqua Prize". Locus Online. June 3, 2019. Archived from the original on March 11, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Chautauqua, Branford Boase Shortlists". Shelf Awareness. May 6, 2019. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ Steves, Jordan (May 2, 2019). "Seven Finalists Named for 2019 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. Archived from the original on February 1, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- "2019 Chautauqua Prize Finalists". Locus Online. May 7, 2019. Archived from the original on December 10, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- Peterson, Angeline (June 1, 2020). "Petina Gappah's Out of Darkness, Shining Light Wins the 2020 Chautauqua Prize". Brittle Paper. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- "Seven finalists named for 2020 Chautauqua Prize". Observer Today. May 16, 2020. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- Borgstrom, Megan (June 2, 2022). "Rebecca Donner's 'All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days' Wins 2022 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ Borgstrom, Megan (May 24, 2022). "Ten Finalists Named for 2022 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
External links
- The Chautauqua Prize, official website.