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Plimpton Prize
The Plimpton Prize is an annual award of $10,000 given by ''The Paris Review'' to a previously unpublished or emerging author who has written a work of fiction that was recently published in its publication. The award was named in honor of longtime editor of ''The Paris Review'', George Plimpton, who died in 2003. The Plimpton Prize is funded by Sarah Plimpton, his widow, and Terry McDonell, president of the Paris Review Board of Directors. Winners of the Plimpton Prize * 1993: Macia Guthridge, for ''Bones'' * 1994: Vikram Chandra, for ''Dharma"'' * 1995: Lise Goett, for ''Three Poems'' * 1996: Elizabeth Gilbert, for ''The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick'' * 1997: Martin McDonagh, for ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' * 1998: Julie Orringer, for ''When She Is Old and I Am Famous'' * 1999: Daniel Libman, for ''In the Belly of the Cat'' * 2000: Karl Iagnemma, for ''On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction'' * 2001: John Barlow, for ''Eating Mammals'' * 2002: Wells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly. The ''Review''s "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Nabokov, among many hundreds of others. Literary critic Joe David Bellamy called the series "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world." The headquarters of ''The Paris Review'' moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. Plimpton edited the ''Review'' from its founding until his death in 2003. Brigid Hughes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Early life and education Ball was born into a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School, and matriculated at Vassar College. Following Vassar, Ball attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA and met the poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, '' March Book'', with Grove Press. Career In 2007 and 2008, Ball published ''Samedi the Deafness'' and the novella ''The Early Deaths of Lube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Literary Awards
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
