The Chautauqua Prize | |
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Date | Annual |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Chautauqua Institution |
First awarded | 2012 |
Website | http://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]
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2012 | Andrew Krivak | The Sojourn | Winner | [2] |
Geraldine Brooks | Caleb's Crossing | Shortlist | [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 Need | Shortlist | [5] | |
Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos | Shortlist | [5] | |
2013 | Timothy Egan | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher | Winner | [6] [7] |
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy | The Presidents Club | Shortlist | [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 Things | Shortlist | [8] | |
2014 | Elizabeth Scarboro | My Foreign Cities | Winner | [9] [10] |
Louise Aronson | A History of the Present Illness: Stories | Shortlist | [11] | |
Lindsay Hill | Sea of Hooks | Shortlist | [11] | |
Roger Rosenblatt | The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood | Shortlist | [11] | |
James Tobin | The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency | Shortlist | [11] | |
Margaret Wrinkle | Wash | Shortlist | [11] | |
2015 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | Winner | [12] [13] |
Michael Blanding | The Map Thief | Shortlist | [14] | |
Kim Church | Byrd | Shortlist | [14] | |
Brian Hart | The Bully of Order | Shortlist | [14] | |
Lily King | Euphoria | Shortlist | [14] | |
Jason Sokol | All Eyes Are Upon Us | Shortlist | [14] | |
Bilal Tanweer | The Scatter Here Is Too Great | Shortlist | [14] | |
Jean Thompson | The Witch | Shortlist | [14] | |
2016 | Cyrus Copeland | Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest | Winner | [15] |
Lynsey Addario | It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War | Shortlist | [16] | |
Lenore Myka | King of the Gypsies: Stories | Shortlist | [16] | |
Steven Niteingale | Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God | Shortlist | [16] | |
Susan Southard | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Shortlist | [16] | |
2017 | Peter Ho Davies | The Fortunes | Winner | [17] [18] |
H. W. Brands | The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War | Shortlist | [19] | |
Victoria Pope Hubbell | Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s | Shortlist | [19] | |
Ben Winters | Underground Airlines | Shortlist | [19] | |
Colin Woodard | American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good | Shortlist | [19] | |
Kao Kalia Yang | The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father | Shortlist | [19] | |
2018 | Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir | Winner | [20] |
Hala Alyan | Salt Houses | Shortlist | [21] | |
Glenn Frankel | High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic | Shortlist | [21] | |
Anne Gisleson | The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading | Shortlist | [21] | |
Meg Howrey | The Wanderers | Shortlist | [21] | |
Andrew Krivák | The Signal Flame | Shortlist | [21] | |
Dalia Rosenfeld | The Worlds We Think We Know | Shortlist | [21] | |
2019 | Anjali Sachdeva | All the Names They Used For God | Winner | [22] |
Edward Carey | Little | Shortlist | [23] [24] | |
Ken Krimstein | The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth | Shortlist | [23] [24] | |
Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir | Shortlist | [23] [24] | |
Richard Powers | The Overstory | Shortlist | [23] [24] [25] | |
Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Shortlist | [23] [24] | |
Elizabeth H. Winthrop | The Mercy Seat | Shortlist | [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 Resistance | Shortlist | ||
Myla Goldberg | Feast Your Eyes | Shortlist | ||
Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | Shortlist | ||
Imani Perry | Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Shortlist | ||
Pitchaya Sudbanthad | Bangkok Wakes to Rain | Shortlist | ||
2021 | Eula Biss | Having and Being Had | Winner | |
Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | Shortlist | ||
Danielle Evans | The Office of Historical Corrections | Shortlist | ||
Yaa Gyasi | Transcendent Kingdom | Shortlist | ||
Andrew Krivak | The Bear | Shortlist | ||
Natasha Trethewey | Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir | Shortlist | ||
Matthew Van Meter | Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South | Shortlist | ||
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 Hitler | Winner | [28] |
Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Shortlist | [29] | |
Victoria Chang | Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief | Shortlist | [29] | |
Ash Davidson | Damnation Spring | Shortlist | [29] | |
Robert Jones, Jr. | The Prophets | Shortlist | [29] | |
Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | Shortlist | [29] | |
Jason Mott | Hell of a Book | Shortlist | [29] | |
Samantha Silva | Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft | Shortlist | [29] | |
Dorothy Wickenden | The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights | Shortlist | [29] | |
Hilma Wolitzer | Today a Women Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories | Shortlist | [29] |
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