Chautauqua Prize

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Chautauqua Prize
DateAnnual
CountryUnited States
Presented by Chautauqua Institution
First awarded2012
Website www.ciweb.org/prize

The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. [1] [2] The winner receives US$ 7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. [2] It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts." [3]

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Honorees

Chautauqua Prize winners and shortlist [4]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2012 Andrew Krivak The Sojourn Winner [2]
Geraldine Brooks Caleb's CrossingShortlist [5]
Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts Shortlist [5]
Nathaniel Philbrick Why Read Moby-Dick?Shortlist [5]
Stephanie Powell Watts We Are Taking Only What We NeedShortlist [5]
Leonard Rosen All Cry ChaosShortlist [5]
2013 Timothy Egan Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher Winner [6] [7]
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy The Presidents ClubShortlist [8]
Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Winner [8]
Gilbert King Devil in the Grove Shortlist [8]
Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Shortlist [8]
John Colman Wood The Names of ThingsShortlist [8]
2014 Elizabeth Scarboro My Foreign CitiesWinner [9] [10]
Louise Aronson A History of the Present Illness: StoriesShortlist [11]
Lindsay Hill Sea of HooksShortlist [11]
Roger Rosenblatt The Boy Detective: A New York ChildhoodShortlist [11]
James Tobin The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the PresidencyShortlist [11]
Margaret Wrinkle WashShortlist [11]
2015 Phil Klay Redeployment Winner [12] [13]
Michael Blanding The Map ThiefShortlist [14]
Kim Church ByrdShortlist [14]
Brian HartThe Bully of OrderShortlist [14]
Lily King EuphoriaShortlist [14]
Jason Sokol All Eyes Are Upon UsShortlist [14]
Bilal Tanweer The Scatter Here Is Too Great Shortlist [14]
Jean Thompson The WitchShortlist [14]
2016 Cyrus Copeland Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's QuestWinner [15]
Lynsey Addario It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and WarShortlist [16]
Lenore Myka King of the Gypsies: StoriesShortlist [16]
Steven Niteingale Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of GodShortlist [16]
Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarShortlist [16]
2017 Peter Ho Davies The FortunesWinner [17] [18]
H. W. Brands The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear WarShortlist [19]
Victoria Pope Hubbell Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920sShortlist [19]
Ben Winters Underground AirlinesShortlist [19]
Colin Woodard American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common GoodShortlist [19]
Kao Kalia Yang The Song Poet: A Memoir of My FatherShortlist [19]
2018 Alex Marzano-Lesnevich The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a MemoirWinner [20]
Hala Alyan Salt Houses Shortlist [21]
Glenn Frankel High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American ClassicShortlist [21]
Anne Gisleson The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and ReadingShortlist [21]
Meg Howrey The WanderersShortlist [21]
Andrew Krivák The Signal FlameShortlist [21]
Dalia Rosenfeld The Worlds We Think We KnowShortlist [21]
2019 Anjali Sachdeva All the Names They Used For GodWinner [22]
Edward Carey LittleShortlist [23] [24]
Ken Krimstein The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of TruthShortlist [23] [24]
Kiese Laymon Heavy: An American MemoirShortlist [23] [24]
Richard Powers The Overstory Shortlist [23] [24] [25]
Elizabeth Rush Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreShortlist [23] [24]
Elizabeth H. Winthrop The Mercy SeatShortlist [23] [24]
2020 Petina Gappah Out of Darkness, Shining Light Winner [26]
Mikhal Dekel Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey Shortlist [27]
Carolyn Forché What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and ResistanceShortlist
Myla Goldberg Feast Your EyesShortlist
Isabella Hammad The ParisianShortlist
Imani Perry Breathe: A Letter to My SonsShortlist
Pitchaya Sudbanthad Bangkok Wakes to RainShortlist
2021 Eula Biss Having and Being HadWinner
Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman Shortlist
Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections Shortlist
Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom Shortlist
Andrew Krivak The BearShortlist
Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirShortlist
Matthew Van Meter Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the SouthShortlist
C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold Shortlist
2022 Rebecca Donner All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerWinner [28]
Daniel James Brown Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War IIShortlist [29]
Victoria Chang Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and GriefShortlist [29]
Ash Davidson Damnation SpringShortlist [29]
Robert Jones, Jr. The ProphetsShortlist [29]
Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeShortlist [29]
Jason Mott Hell of a Book Shortlist [29]
Samantha Silva Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary WollstonecraftShortlist [29]
Dorothy Wickenden The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's RightsShortlist [29]
Hilma Wolitzer Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: StoriesShortlist [29]
2023 Siddhartha Mukherjee The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanWinner
Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and OriginShortlist
Levi Vonk with Axel Kirschner Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the RunShortlist
Meron Hadero A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: StoriesShortlist
Jenny Tinghui Zhang Four Treasures of the SkyShortlist
Geraldine Brooks HorseShortlist
Jean Hanff Korelitz The LatecomerShortlist
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry The OrchardShortlist
Javier Zamora Solito: A MemoirShortlist
Sidik Fofana Stories from the Tenants DownstairsShortlist
2024 Tananarive Due The ReformatoryWinner
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Shortlist
Isabella Hammad Enter GhostShortlist
Paul Harding This Other Eden Shortlist
Kelly Link White Cat, Black Dog: StoriesShortlist
Emily Strasser Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden HistoryShortlist

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  10. ↑ "Awards: Maxwell E. Perkins; Chautauqua". Shelf Awareness . May 16, 2014. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Awards: Chautauqua, Branford Boase Shortlists". Shelf Awareness . May 6, 2019. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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