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Seaview (novel)
''Seaview'' is a novel by Toby Olson. It received the 1983 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The book centers around a woman called Melinda who is dying of cancer and her husband, Allen who agrees to help out a drug dealer in return for medicine. He instead decides to make money by hustling players on the golf courses they pass while on their way to Cape God where Melinda was born. References 1982 American novels PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works New Directions Publishing books {{1980s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaview
Seaview or Sea View may refer to: Places * Clifton Beach, Karachi, also known as Sea View, a beach in Pakistan * Sea View, Dorset, a suburb in England * Seaview, Isle of Wight, a small village in England * Seaview, Lower Hutt, an industrial suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand * Seaview, New Brunswick, a small Canadian coastal community * Seaview, Eastern Cape, South Africa * Seaview, Hawaii, United States * Seaview, Virginia, United States * Seaview, Washington, United States * Seaview, Seattle, Washington, United States Television and film * USOS ''Seaview'' or S.S.R.N. ''Seaview'', the fictitious submarine from ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' (USOS in the film, S.S.R.N. in the television series) * ''Seaview'' (TV series), a British children's TV series from the 1980s * ''Seaview'' (film), a 2008 Irish documentary film Other uses * The Catlin Seaview Survey * Seaview (football ground), football stadium in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, home of Crusaders F.C. * Seaview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Olson
Toby Olson (born 1937 Chicago) is an American novelist and winner of the 1983 PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction. Life Through high school and his four years in the Navy as a surgical technician, he lived in California, Arizona, and Texas. He graduated from Occidental College and Long Island University. He co-founded and taught at the Aspen Writers' Workshop, and at Long Island University and The New School For Social Research, and since 1975 Temple University. Recently, he has collaborated with composer Paul Epstein, including chamber music, songs, a short story set for voice and piano, and two chamber operas, ''Dorit'', and ''Chihuahua''. Both operas were performed by the Temple University Opera Theater. He lives in Philadelphia and North Truro, on Cape Cod. Awards * 1983 PEN/Faulkner Award, for '' Seaview'' * 1985 Guggenheim Fellowships * 2015 Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards The Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards were established to honor the legacy of the founder of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's use of his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's ''A Separate Peace'' in 1961. The foundation was dissolved after 1970. Mary Lee Settle was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 American Novels
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction-winning Works
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." The award was first given in 1981. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's use of his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's ''A Separate Peace'' in 1961. The foundation was dissolved after 1970. Mary Lee Settle was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |