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Fabri Literary Prize
The Fabri Literary Prize was established in 2006 to honor the memory of Frances Fabri. A Holocaust survivor, Frances Fabri spearheaded efforts in the United States to record survivor stories, helping to create the interviewing protocols that are used widely today. Frances had much respect for the storyteller’s craft. Throughout her adult life she wrote chronicles of her experiences in the concentration camps and recorded oral histories of fellow survivors. A collection of her short stories, ''Crickets Would Sing'', has been published posthumously by Plum Branch Press. Matthew McKay, psychologist and co-founder of New Harbinger Publications, admired Frances’s determination to write and tell her story. His goal for The Fabri Literary Prize was to discover "deserving but underappreciated" works of fiction and have them published for the general book trade. The Fabri Literary Prize is open to unpublished novels written for adults with a variety of interests. Books for children or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Fabri
Frances Fabri, born Sárika Ladányi (22 September 1929 – 9 January 2006), was a Hungarian-born author and Holocaust survivor. She was born in Békés, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary. Life At the age of fourteen she was deported to Auschwitz with her family. Only Fabri and her mother survived. After their liberation they returned to their hometown. They left in 1956, and moved to New York (state), New York, where Fabri graduated from Hofstra University in history and literature. She married Emery Fabri in Hungary, but the couple later divorced. She moved to San Francisco in about 1972. With the help of college students she started interviewing Holocaust survivors, which she collected in a book called ''Crickets Would Sing''. After her death in January 2006 in San Francisco, Dr. Matthew McKay established the ''Fabri Literary Prize'' in her honor. Sources The Fabri Literary Prize * New Harbinger Publications: Frances Fabri Hofstra University alumni Hungarian e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government began isolating Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. The magazine was founded by bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ... Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Harbinger Publications
New Harbinger Publications, Inc. is an employee-owned, Oakland-based American publisher of self-help books. Overview This publisher of self-help books specializes in titles that offer step-by-step procedures for dealing with phobias, anxiety, anger, relationship conflict and a wide variety of depression-related psychological problems. Founders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning’s have co-authored a dozen titles which established the model for New Harbinger’s other books. New Harbinger has annual sales of + $15 million and over 50 employees. In 2004 employees owned 53% of the stock. New Harbinger markets its titles to therapists, psychiatrists, and physicians for use by their patients and clients. The New Harbinger catalog contains more than 300 titles. History The company was founded in 1973 by psychologist Matthew McKay and writer, Patrick Fanning. McKay received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and specializes in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Krusoe
Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in ''Antioch Review'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''BOMB'', ''Iowa Review'', ''FIELD (magazine), Field'', ''North American Review'', ''American Poetry Review'', and ''Santa Monica Review'', which he founded in 1988. His essays and book reviews have appeared in ''Manoa'', the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', ''The New York Times'' and the ''Washington Post''. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. He teaches at Santa Monica College and in the graduate writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His novel ''Iceland'' was selected by the ''Los Angeles Times'' and the ''Austin Chronicle'' as one of the ten best fiction books of 2002, and it was on the ''Washington Post'' list of notable fiction for the same year. His novel ''Girl Factory'' was published in 2008 by Tin House Books followed by ''Erased,'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Ison
Tara Ison (born 1964) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is the author of three novels: ''Rockaway'' (Soft Skull Press, 2013), ''The List'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, Scribner, 2007), and ''A Child out of Alcatraz'' (Faber & Faber, 1997), which was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A collection of essays, ''Reeling Through Life: How I Learned To Live, Love & Die at the Movies'', was published by Soft Skull Press in January 2015, and was the winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her short story collection, ''Ball'', was published by Soft Skull Press in Fall 2015. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2020 in support of a short story collection tentatively titled "The Meat Bee," after her 2018 story published in ''Tin House''. Work Ison received her MFA in Fiction & Literature from Bennington College, where she was a student of Rick Moody. Institutions she has taught creative writing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fiction Awards
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2006
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
