Publishers Lunch
George Saunders
has won the first Folio
Prize for TENTH
OF DECEMBER, just a week after winning the Story Prize. (The collection
also garnering a National Book Award nomination last fall.) Folio Prize chair
Lavinia Greenlaw said in the announcement: "Saunders's stories are both
artful and profound. Darkly playful, they take us to the edge of some of the
most difficult questions of our time and force us to consider what lies behind
and beyond them. Unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate, he is a
true original whose work is absolutely of the moment."
In other awards news, the American Academy of Arts &
Letters announced its 2014 slate of Literature
Award winners. Among the 8 Arts & Letters Awards in Literature
recipients are translator Don
Bartlett; biographer Brenda
Wineapple; and Eric
Puchner. The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction was awarded to
Manuel Gonzales,
while Laura van den
Berg won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. Other notable
winners include Yiyun
Li; Sarah
Hall; Sherman
Alexie; and Daniel
Mendelsohn.
Canada's Charles Taylor Prize was
awarded to Thomas
King for THE
INCONVENIENT INDIAN.
In still more awards events, the Books For a Better Life
awards were presented
Monday night. Special honors included literary agent Richard Pine at
Inkwell being inducted
into the organization's Hall of Fame, by his client Arianna Huffington.
In advance of the tonight's presentation of
Poets & Writers' Editor's Award to Kate Medina at Random House, group president and
publisher Gina
Centrello shares testimonials from E.L. Doctorow, Jon
Meacham, Katherine Boo and Anna Quindlen in an in-house memo. Centrello adds:
"Let me simply say that because Kate is our colleague I am a better
publisher, and all of us in our group are more embracing and unwavering in our
commitment to do the very best for every book we publish thanks to the
standards Kate sets." The Writers
for Writers awards
will also be presented at the P&W gala.
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