Thursday, December 11, 2014

Awards: Flaherty/Dunnan; Slate/Whiting Best Second Novels

via Shelf Awareness

Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique (Riverhead Books) has won the $10,000 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, sponsored by the Center for Fiction, formerly known as the Mercantile Library. The award was presented last night in New York City at the Center's annual benefit and awards dinner.

Also at the dinner, author Nathan Englander presented the Center's 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction to Nicole Aragi, founder and agent of Aragi, Inc.
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Slate and the Whiting Foundation have collaborated to recognize the five best second novels of the last five years. The novels on the We Second That: The Slate/Whiting Second Novel List are:

Family Life by Akhil Sharma
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
Inferno by Eileen Myles
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt

For articles about each book, click here.

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