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New York, March 27, 2007 -- The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the names of 17 writers who will receive its 2007 awards in literature. The awards will be presented in New York in May at the Academy's annual Ceremonial. The literature prizes, totaling nearly $140,000, honor both established and emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Academy's 250 members nominate candidates, and a rotating committee of writers selects winners. This year's committee members were A. R. Gurney, Edward Hoagland, Lorrie Moore, Charles Simic, Jane Smiley, and Edmund White. |
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Joan Acocella Charles D'Ambrosio Barbara Ehrenreich David Markson |
Robert Morgan Joan Silber William T. Vollmann Dean Young |
Benjamin H. Danks Award
The $20,000 Benjamin H. Danks Award is conferred to a promising young playwright. Adam Rapp
E. M. Forster Award
$15,000 to a young writer from the United Kingdom or Ireland for a stay in the United States. Award jury: Margaret Drabble, Alison Lurie, J. D. McClatchy. Jez Butterworth
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
$5,000 for the best work of first fiction (novel or short stories) published in 2006. Tony D'Souza for Whiteman
Award of Merit for the Short Story
$10,000 and a medal to an outstanding short story writer. Charles Baxter
Addison M. Metcalf Award
$10,000 to a young writer of great promise. Suji Kwock Kim
Rome Fellowships in Literature
A one-year residency (2007-2008) at the American Academy in Rome. Junot Diaz and Sarah Manguso
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award
$5,000 to a young novelist of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2006. Dana Spiotta for Eat the Document
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award
$10,000 to a writer whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose style. Amy Hempel
