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William Saroyan International Prize For Writing
The William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is a biennial literary award for fiction and nonfiction in the spirit of William Saroyan by emerging writers. It was established by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation to "encourage new or emerging writers rather than recognize established literary figures;" the prize being $12,500. The Saroyan Prize was first awarded in 2003 for "newly published works of fiction including novels, short stories, dramas or memoirs." Starting with the second round of awards in 2005, separate awards have been given for fiction and nonfiction. With the exception of a three year gap between the second and third rounds of awards, the prize has been awarded every two years since it was established. Winners and finalists *2003 : **''Everything is Illuminated'' by Jonathan Safran Foer (winner) **'' The Impressionist'' by Hari Kunzru **''Nocturne'' by Adam Rapp *2005 Fiction: **''The Laments'' by George Hagen (winner) **''Bloodv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saroyan
William Saroyan (; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film ''The Human Comedy''. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, '' The Human Comedy.'' Saroyan is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno. Some of his best-known works are ''The Time of Your Life'', ''My Name Is Aram'' and '' My Heart's in the Highlands''. His two collections of short stories from the 1930s, ''Inhale Exhale'' (1936) and ''The Daring Young Man On the Flying Trapeze'' (1941) are regarded as among his major achievements and essential documents of the cultural history of the period on the American West Coast. He has been described in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), ''The History of Love'' (2005), ''Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''Esquire'', and ''Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40'', and has been collected in ''Best American Short Stories 2003'', '' Best American Short Stories 2008'' and ''Best American Short Stories 2019''. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for ''Great House''. A collection of her short stories, '' To Be a Man'', was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022. Early life Krauss, who grew up on Long Island, New York, was born in Manhattan, New York City, to a British Jewish mother and an American Jewish father, an engineer and orthopedic surgeon who grew up partly in Israel. Krauss's maternal grandparents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Orozco
Daniel Orozco is an American writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as ''The Best American Short Stories'' and ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'' and magazines such as ''Harper's'' and ''Zoetrope''. He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer of Stanford University and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho. He won a 2011 Whiting Award. Orozco's best-known short story is "Orientation", which originally appeared in '' The Seattle Review'' and has subsequently been included in ''The Best American Short Stories 1995'', and presented in audio form on National Public Radio. ''Orientation: And Other Stories'', a collection of Orozco's work, was published by Faber & Faber in May 2011. Early life and education Orozco was born in 1957 in Daly City, California, the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area up until his 30s, during which time he attended Stanford Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Brett
Brian Brett (born 28 April 1950) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist.Brian Brett in . He has been writing and publishing since the late 1960s, and he has worked as an editor for several publishing firms, including the Governor-General's Award-winning Blackfish Press. He has also written a three-part memoir of his life in British Columbia. Early life Brett was born in . He grew up wi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Himelstein
Linda may refer to: As a name * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake in 1924), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Places * Linda, California, a census-designated place * Linda, Missouri, a ghost town * Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda, Georgia, village in Abkhazia, Georgia * Linda, Bashkortostan, village in Bashkortostan, Russia * Linda Valley, Tasmania * 7169 Linda, an asteroid * Linda, a small lunar crater - see Delisle (crater) Music * ''Linda'' (Linda George album), 1974 * ''Linda'' (Linda Clifford album), 1977 * ''Linda'' (Miguel Bosé album), 1978 ** "Linda" (Miguel Bosé song), the title song * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Neofotis
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kelly (author)
Elizabeth Kelly (born 29 March 1921) is a British actress, best known for her roles in television series and soap operas. Career She started acting on television in the late 1960s. She played Edie Burgess in the popular ITV soap opera '' Coronation Street'' in 1971 and went on to have roles in many televised dramas such as ''The Bill'', ''Boon'', '' Cider with Rosie'', ''Spender'', and '' Where the Heart Is'' among others. She is best known for being a regular cast member of the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. She played Nellie Ellis, the interfering relative of Pauline Fowler from 1993 to 1998, returning briefly in 2000 for Ethel Skinner's funeral. Since leaving ''EastEnders'' she has appeared in episodes of ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', ''Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, ''Atmospheric Disturbances'', was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays to ''The New Yorker'' magazine. Early life Galchen was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics. When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States. She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Education Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003. After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow. Career In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. Her first novel, ''Atmospheric Disturbances'', was publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moir (writer)
John Moir may refer to: * John Moir (basketball) (1915–1975), American basketball player * John William Moir (1851–1940), African Lakes Corporation * John Moir (politician) John Moir (29 July 1856 19 July 1939) was prominent businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Born in Albany on 29 July 1856, he was the eldest son of Alexander Moir, who ... (1856–1939), Western Australian politician * John Moir (settler) (1851–1939), Western Australian settler and pastoralist * John Moir (physician) (1808–1899), Scottish physician * John Moir (priest) (1814–1889), Scottish Episcopalian priest {{hndis, Moir, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam David Miller
Adam David Miller (October 8, 1922 – November 4, 2020) was an American poet, writer, publisher, and radio programmer and producer. Born in Saint George, South Carolina, Miller published one of the first collections of modern African-American poetry, as well as five books of poetry and two memoirs, including ''Ticket to Exile'' about his life growing up in the Jim Crow South. He died in November 2020 at the age of 98. United States Navy Miller served in the United States Navy from 1942 -1946. He attended university on the G.I. Bill, earning a master's degree in English (1953) from the University of California at Berkeley where he also completed post-degree work in drama and helped found the university's ''Graduate Student Journal.'' Throughout his career, Miller has promoted and published other writers. In'' Dices, or Black Bones,'' (1970), he showcased the early poems of Al Young, California's poet laureate (2005–2008), Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major, Lucille Clifton, Etheridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyo Sato
(or just Kiyo) in Japanese folklore is a character in the story of Anchin and Kiyohime. In this story, she fell in love with a Buddhist monk named Anchin, but after her interest in the monk was rejected, she chased after him and transformed into a serpent in a rage, before killing him in a bell where he had hidden in the Dōjō-ji temple. Overview The so-called "Anchin-Kiyohime" legend may be designated by various other names, such as Hidaka River legend (Hidakagawa legend). The theatrical versions, for which there are numerous playscripts, are collectively known as ''Dōjōji-mono''. Summary The "Anchin-Kiyohime" legend can be summarized as follows: The legend, connected with the founding of the Dōjō-ji temple in Kii Province (modern-day Wakayama Prefecture), relates how a priest named Anchin from Shirakawa in Ōshū province (present-day Shirakawa, Fukushima) making pilgrimage to the Kumano Shrine in southern Kii, lodged at the home of a (steward of a '' shōen'' m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
