Lannan Literary Awards
The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality", according to the foundation.[1] The foundation's awards are lucrative relative to most awards in literature: the 2006 awards for poetry, fiction and nonfiction each came with $150,000, making them among the richest literary prizes in the world.
The awards reflect the philosophy governing the Lannan Foundation, a family foundation established by J. Patrick Lannan, Sr. in 1960.[2] It describes itself as "dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities."[3]
Awards have been made to acclaimed and varied literary figures such as David Foster Wallace, William Gaddis, Lydia Davis, William H. Gass, Steve Erickson and W.S. Merwin. The foundation has also recognized people known as much for their public intellectual activities as for their literary talents, such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Edward Said.
The foundation also gives a "Cultural Freedom Prize" for the stated purpose of recognizing "people whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry, and expression."[4] Prize winners include Elouise P. Cobell, Robert Fisk, Eduardo Galeano, Claudia Andujar, Mahmoud Darwish, Arundhati Roy, Helen Caldicott and Cornel West.
The foundation does not accept applications for awards or fellowships. Candidates are suggested anonymously "by a network of writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors," with the foundation's literary committee making the final determination.[1]
The foundation also "provides financial assistance to tribes and nonprofits that serve Native American communities..."[5] For instance, it gave more than $7 million in grants to the Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund from 1998 to 2009, to support litigation on behalf of Native Americans with interests in trust lands. This nonprofit was created by Elouise P. Cobell and her legal team to bring claims against the United States for mismanaging lands held in trust for Native Americans. The Cobell v. Salazar case was filed in 1996 and settled in 2009.[5]
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
- 2014: Claudia Rankine
- 2012: Dennis O'Driscoll
- 2011: none
- 2010: none
- 2009: none
- 2008: August Kleinzahler
- 2007: none
- 2006: Bruce Weigl
- 2005: Pattiann Rogers
- 2004: Peter Reading
- 2002: Alan Dugan
- 2002: Peter Dale Scott
- 2000: Herbert Morris
- 2000: Jay Wright
- 1999: Dennis O'Driscoll
- 1999: C.D. Wright
- 1999: Louise Glück
- 1998: Frank Bidart
- 1998: Jon Davis
- 1998: Mary Oliver
- 1997: Ken Smith
- 1996: Anne Carson
- 1996: Lucille Clifton
- 1996: William Trevor
- 1996: Donald Justice
- 1995: Hayden Carruth
- 1995: Carol Ann Duffy
- 1995: Arthur Sze
- 1995: Li-Young Lee
- 1994: Simon Armitage
- 1994: Eavan Boland
- 1994: Linda Hogan
- 1994: Jack Gilbert
- 1994: Richard Kenney
- 1993: Cyrus Cassells
- 1993: Denise Levertov
- 1993: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- 1992: A. R. Ammons
- 1992: Thomas Centolella
- 1992: Killarney Clary
- 1992: Suzanne Gardinier
- 1992: Susan Mitchell
- 1992: Luis J. Rodriguez
- 1991: William Bronk
- 1991: Chrystos
- 1991: Pattiann Rogers
- 1991: Herbert Morris
- 1990: Derek Mahon
- 1990: Seamus Heaney
- 1989: Cid Corman
- 1989: George Evans
- 1989: Peter Levitt
Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
- 2007: A. L. Kennedy
- 2007: Susan Straight
- 2006: Kathryn Davis
- 2004: Rikki Ducornet
- 2003: Edward P. Jones
- 2003: Alistair MacLeod
- 2003: John McGahern
- 2000: Robert Coover
- 2000: David Malouf
- 2000: Cynthia Ozick
- 2000: Leslie Marmon Silko
- 1999: Gish Jen
- 1999: Jamaica Kincaid
- 1999: Richard Powers
- 1999: Joanna Scott
- 1998: J.M. Coetzee
- 1998: Lydia Davis
- 1998: Stuart Dybek
- 1998: Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- 1997: John Banville
- 1997: Anne Michaels
- 1997: Grace Paley
- 1996: Howard Norman
- 1996: Tim Pears
- 1996: David Foster Wallace
- 1995: Louis de Bernières
- 1995: Mary Morrissy
- 1995: Alice Munro
- 1994: Edward P. Jones
- 1994: Steven Millhauser
- 1994: Caryl Phillips
- 1994: Stephen Wright
- 1993: Rikki Ducornet
- 1993: Denis Johnson
- 1993: Carole Maso
- 1993: Paul West
- 1992: Frank Chin
- 1992: Gilbert Sorrentino
- 1991: Sandra Cisneros
- 1991: Alexander Theroux
- 1991: John Edgar Wideman
- 1990: John Hawkes
- 1989: John Berger
Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
- 2007: Mike Davis
- 2006: Tim Flannery
- 2005: Adam Hochschild
- 2005: David G. Campbell
- 2004: Luís Alberto Urrea
- 2003: Rebecca Solnit
- 2002: Wade Davis
- 2002: Lewis Hyde
- 2001: Barbara Ehrenreich
- 2000: Bill McKibben
- 2000: Carl Safina
- 1999: Jared Diamond
- 1999: Gary Paul Nabhan
- 1998: Chet Raymo
- 1998: Lawrence Weschler
- 1998: Howard Zinn
- 1997: David Quammen
- 1996: David Abram
- 1996: Charles Bowden
- 1995: Scott Russell Sanders
- 1995: Richard K. Nelson
- 1994: Jonathan Kozol
- 1993: Edward Hoagland
- 1993: Terry Tempest Williams
- 1992: Noam Chomsky
- 1991: Christopher Hitchens
- 1990: Barry Lopez
- 1989: Wendell Berry
Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book
- 2008: Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin
- 2008: Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith, by Philip Kitcher
- 2008: Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, by John N. Gray
- 2005: The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, by Andrew J. Bacevich
Lannan Literary Fellowship
- 2014: Mitchell S. Jackson[6]
- 2013: Andrew N. Rubin
- 2012: Natalie Diaz
- 2012: Kate Moses
- 2011: Sherwin Bitsui
- 2011: Atsuro Riley
- 2010: C.E. Morgan
- 2010: Michael McGriff
- 2009: Sarah Lindsay
- 2009: Valzhyna Mort
- 2008: Charles D'Ambrosio
- 2008: Katie Ford
- 2008: Ilya Kaminsky
- 2008: Glenn Patterson
- 2007: Paula Gunn Allen
- 2007: Daniel Alarcón
- 2007: Edie Meidav
- 2007: Dinaw Mengestu
- 2007: Sinéad Morrissey
- 2007: Jeremy Scahill
- 2006: Chris Hedges
- 2006: Elizabeth Kolbert
- 2006: Charles C. Mann
- 2006: Peter Orner
- 2006: Brian Turner
- 2006: Frank X Walker
- 2005: Nadeem Aslam
- 2005: Judy Budnitz
- 2005: Freeman House
- 2004: Edwidge Danticat
- 2004: Thomas Frank
- 2004: Mavis Gallant
- 2004: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- 2004: Rebecca Seiferle
- 2003: Chris Abani
- 2003: Deborah Eisenberg
- 2003: George Evans
- 2003: Linda Gregg
- 2003: Chris Offutt
- 2003: Mary Rakow
- 2002: Ann Cummins
- 2002: James Galvin
- 2002: James Alan McPherson
- 2002: Naomi Shihab Nye
- 2002: Ahdaf Soueif
- 2002: David James Duncan
- 2002: Lewis Hyde
- 2002: Rubén Martínez
- 2001: Barbara Ehrenreich
- 2001: Deborah Levy
- 2001: David Wong Louie
- 2001: Lorrie Moore
- 2001: George Saunders
- 1993: William Everson
Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2014: Steve Erickson
- 2014: Joseph Stroud
- 2007: Anne Stevenson
- 2006: Gilbert Sorrentino
- 2004: W.S. Merwin
- 2002: John Berger
- 2002: Peter Matthiessen
- 2001: Robert Creeley
- 2001: Edward Said
- 2000: Evan S. Connell
- 1999: Adrienne Rich
- 1998: John Barth
- 1997: William H. Gass
- 1996: R. S. Thomas
- 1993: William Gaddis
- 1989: Kay Boyle
See also
- American literature
- American poetry
- List of poetry awards
- List of literature awards
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
Notes
- 1 2 "Awards and Fellowships - Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
- ↑ "History - Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Welcome - Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
- ↑ Lannan Foundation Web site, Web page titled "Cultural Freedom Prize", accessed November 8, 2006
- 1 2 Iulia Filip, "Quarrel over Fees in $3 Billion Cobell Case", Courthouse News, 19 July 2013; accessed 26 October 2016
- ↑ "Mitchell S. Jackson". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
External links
- Lannan Foundation, official web site.
- Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships