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 | |
|---|---|
| Date | Annual |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Chautauqua Institution |
| First awarded | 2012 |
| Website | http://www.ciweb.org/prize |
Honorees edit
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Andrew Krivak | The Sojourn | Winner | [2] |
| Geraldine Brooks | Caleb's Crossing | Shortlist | [5] | |
| Erik Larson | In the Garden of Beasts | Shortlist | [5] | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | Why Read Moby-Dick? | Shortlist | [5] | |
| Stephanie Powell Watts | We Are Taking Only What We Need | Shortlist | [5] | |
| Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos | Shortlist | [5] | |
| 2013 | Timothy Egan | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher | Winner | [6][7] |
| Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy | The Presidents Club | Shortlist | [8] | |
| Ben Fountain | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Winner | [8] | |
| Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove | Shortlist | [8] | |
| Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | Shortlist | [8] | |
| John Colman Wood | The Names of Things | Shortlist | [8] | |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Scarboro | My Foreign Cities | Winner | [9][10] |
| Louise Aronson | A History of the Present Illness: Stories | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Lindsay Hill | Sea of Hooks | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Roger Rosenblatt | The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood | Shortlist | [11] | |
| James Tobin | The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency | Shortlist | [11] | |
| Margaret Wrinkle | Wash | Shortlist | [11] | |
| 2015 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | Winner | [12][13] |
| Michael Blanding | The Map Thief | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Kim Church | Byrd | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Brian Hart | The Bully of Order | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Lily King | Euphoria | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Jason Sokol | All Eyes Are Upon Us | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Bilal Tanweer | The Scatter Here Is Too Great | Shortlist | [14] | |
| Jean Thompson | The Witch | Shortlist | [14] | |
| 2016 | Cyrus Copeland | Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest | Winner | [15] |
| Lynsey Addario | It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War | Shortlist | [16] | |
| Lenore Myka | King of the Gypsies: Stories | Shortlist | [16] | |
| Steven Niteingale | Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God | Shortlist | [16] | |
| Susan Southard | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Shortlist | [16] | |
| 2017 | Peter Ho Davies | The Fortunes | Winner | [17][18] |
| H. W. Brands | The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Victoria Pope Hubbell | Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Ben Winters | Underground Airlines | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Colin Woodard | American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Kao Kalia Yang | The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father | Shortlist | [19] | |
| 2018 | Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir | Winner | [20] |
| Hala Alyan | Salt Houses | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Glenn Frankel | High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Anne Gisleson | The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Meg Howrey | The Wanderers | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Andrew Krivák | The Signal Flame | Shortlist | [21] | |
| Dalia Rosenfeld | The Worlds We Think We Know | Shortlist | [21] | |
| 2019 | Anjali Sachdeva | All the Names They Used For God | Winner | [22] |
| Edward Carey | Little | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
| Ken Krimstein | The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
| Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
| Richard Powers | The Overstory | Shortlist | [23][24][25] | |
| Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
| Elizabeth H. Winthrop | The Mercy Seat | Shortlist | [23][24] | |
| 2020 | Petina Gappah | Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Winner | [26] |
| Mikhal Dekel | Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey | Shortlist | [27] | |
| 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 | [28] |
| Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Victoria Chang | Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Ash Davidson | Damnation Spring | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Robert Jones, Jr. | The Prophets | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Jason Mott | Hell of a Book | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Samantha Silva | Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Dorothy Wickenden | The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights | Shortlist | [29] | |
| Hilma Wolitzer | Today a Women Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories | Shortlist | [29] |
References edit
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- ^ Borgstrom, Megan (2022-06-02). "Rebecca Donner's 'All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days' Wins 2022 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
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External links edit
- The Chautauqua Prize, official website.