Edward Lewis Wallant Award

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]

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
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
1968	No award
1969	Leo Litwak	Waiting for the News
1970	No 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
1976	No award
1977	Curt Leviant	The Yemenite Girl
1978	No award
1979	No award
1980	Johanna Kaplan	O My America!
1981	Allen Hoffman	Kagan's Superfecta
1982	No award
1983	Francine Prose	Hungry Hearts
1984	No 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
1990	No award
1991	No award
1992	Melvin Jules Bukiet	Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
1993	Gerald Shapiro	From Hunger
1994	No award
1995	Rebecca Goldstein	Mazel
1996	Thane Rosenbaum	Elijah Visible
1997	Harvey Grossinger	The Quarry
1998	No 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
2006	No 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]
2022	Liana Finck	Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation

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. 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. "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