Edward Lewis Wallant Award

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The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. [1] It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.

The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.

Awards

Award winners [2]
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1963 Norman Fruchter Coat Upon a Stick [3]
1964 Seymour Epstein Leah
1965 Hugh Nissenson A Pile of Stones
1966 Gene Hurwitz Home Is Where You Start From
1967 Chaim Potok The Chosen
1968No award
1969 Leo Litwak Waiting for the News
1970No award
1971 Cynthia Ozick The Pagan Rabbi
1972 Robert Kotlowitz Somewhere Else
1973 Arthur A. Cohen In the Days of Simon Stern
1974 Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Anya
1975 Anne Bernays Growing Up Rich
1976No award
1977 Curt Leviant The Yemenite Girl
1978No award
1979No award
1980 Johanna Kaplan O My America!
1981 Allen Hoffman Kagan's Superfecta
1982No award
1983 Francine Prose Hungry Hearts
1984No award
1985 Jay Neugeboren Before My Life Began
1986 Daphne Merkin Enchantment
1987 Steve Stern Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven
1988 Tova Reich Master of the Return
1989 Jerome Badanes The Final Opus of Leon Solomon
1990No award
1991No award
1992 Melvin Jules Bukiet Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
1993 Gerald Shapiro From Hunger
1994No award
1995 Rebecca Goldstein Mazel
1996 Thane Rosenbaum Elijah Visible
1997 Harvey Grossinger The Quarry
1998No award
1999 Allegra Goodman Kaaterskill Falls
2000 Judy Budnitz If I Told You Once
2001 Myla Goldberg Bee Season
2002 Dara Horn In the Image [3]
2003 Joan Leegant An Hour in Paradise [4]
2004 Jonathan Rosen Joy Comes in the Morning
2005 Nicole Krauss The History of Love
2006No award
2007 Ehud Havazelet Bearing the Body
2008 Eileen Pollack In the Mouth [5]
2009 Sara Houghteling Pictures at an Exhibition
2010 Julie Orringer The Invisible Bridge
2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision
2012 Joshua Henkin The World Without You [5] [6]
2013 Kenneth Bonert The Lion Seeker
2014 David Bezmozgis The Betrayers [5]
2015 Rebecca Dinerstein The Sunlit Night
2016 Ayelet Tsabari The Best Place on Earth
2017 Margot Singer Underground Fugue [7]
2018 Eduardo Halfon Mourning [8]
2019 Peter Orner Maggie Brown & Others
2020 Lee Conell The Party Upstairs [9]
2021 Hanna Halperin Something Wild [10]


References

  1. ↑ "Edward Lewis Wallant Award (University of Hartford)". American Writers Museum . Archived from the original on 2023-09-25. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  2. ↑ "Edward Lewis Wallant Award". University of Hartford . Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  3. 1 2 Pinsker, Sanford (2003-03-21). "Wallant Worthies Are Instantly Recognizable". The Forward . Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  4. ↑ "Leegant wins distinguished writing awards". Harvard Gazette . 2004-06-03. Archived from the original on 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  5. 1 2 3 "Bezmozgis wins Wallant Award for 'The Betrayers'". CT Insider . 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  6. ↑ "Awards: IACP; Edward Lewis Wallant; Walt Whitman; Griffin". Shelf Awareness . 2013-04-12. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  7. ↑ "Awards: Wallant Winner; Sunday Times EFG Short Story; PEN/Barber Freedom to Write". Shelf Awareness . 2018-02-15. Archived from the original on 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  8. ↑ Bolton-Fasman, Judy (2019-04-09). "Novelist Eduardo Halfon Wins Edward Lewis Wallant Award". Jewish Boston. Archived from the original on 2023-01-30. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  9. ↑ Klaps, Inge (2021-01-20). "Lee Conell (MFA '15) is 2020 Wallant Award recipient". Vanderbilt University . Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  10. ↑ https://www.hartford.edu/unotes/2022/03/greenberg-center-announces-2021-wallant-book-award-winner.aspx
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