Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.[1] The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating both Capote and his friend Newton Arvin, who was a distinguished critic and Smith College professor until he lost his job in 1960 after his homosexuality was publicly exposed.[2]

Recipients

  • 1996 Helen Vendler – The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
  • 1997 John Felstiner – Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
  • 1998 John Kerrigan – Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon
  • 1999 Charles Rosen – Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen
  • 2000 Elaine Scarry – Dreaming by the Book and Philip Fisher – Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction[3]
  • 2001 Malcolm Bowie – Proust Among the Stars
  • 2002 Declan Kiberd – Irish Classics
  • 2003 Seamus Heaney – Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001
  • 2004 Susan Stewart – Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
  • 2005 Angus Fletcher – A New Theory for American Poetry
  • 2006 Geoffrey Hartman and Daniel T. O'Hara – The Geoffrey Hartman Reader
  • 2007 William H. Gass – A Temple of Texts[4]
  • 2008 Helen Small – The Long Life[1]
  • 2009 Geoffrey Hill – Collected Critical Writings[5]
  • 2010 Seth Lerer – Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter[6]
  • 2011 Mark McGurl – The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing[7]
  • 2012 Elaine Showalter – A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx[8]
  • 2013 Marina Warner – Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights[9]
  • 2014 Fredric Jameson – The Antinomies of Realism[10]
  • 2015 Stanley Plumly – The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner With Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb[11]
  • 2016 Kevin Birmingham – The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses[12]
  • 2017 Gillian Beer – Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll[13]
  • 2018 Robert Hass – A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry[14]
  • 2019 Brent Hayes Edwards – Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination[15]
  • 2020 Fred Moten – Black and Blur[16]
  • 2021 Kay Ryan – Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose[17]
  • 2022 Heather Clark – Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath[18]

References

  1. ^ a b Helen Small wins 2008 Truman Capote Award for literary criticism Archived 2017-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, University of Iowa news release, April 30, 2008.
  2. ^ "Capote Trust Is Formed To Offer Literary Prizes" Archived 2017-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, New York Times, March 25, 1994.
  3. ^ "Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI". www.news-releases.uiowa.edu. University News Service – The University of Iowa. April 5, 2000. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  4. ^ "Gass wins 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine, Washington University in St. Louis news release, May 4, 2007.
  5. ^ "Geoffrey Hill wins 2009 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, University of Iowa news release, April 15, 2009.
  6. ^ "Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" Archived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, University of Iowa news release, April 14, 2010.
  7. ^ "UCLA English professor wins 2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" Archived 2011-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, UCLA news release, April 13, 2011
  8. ^ Kelli Andresen, "Showalter book wins Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism" Archived 2013-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, Iowa Now, April 30, 2012.
  9. ^ "Marina Warner receives top award" Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine, The Gazette, April 21, 2013
  10. ^ "Fredric Jameson receives Truman Capote Award" Archived 2015-02-28 at the Wayback Machine, Iowa Now, May 23, 2014.
  11. ^ Brittany Borghi, "Stanley Plumly receives Truman Capote Award" Archived 2015-07-02 at the Wayback Machine, Iowa Now, July 1, 2015.
  12. ^ "Kevin Birmingham wins Truman Capote Award" Archived 2016-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, Harvard Gazette, May 23, 2016. ("Birmingham is the first author to receive this prestigious award for a first book.")
  13. ^ "Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism: Gillian Beer" Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, University of Iowa, October 19, 2017.
  14. ^ "Truman Capote Award Ceremony: Robert Hass". The Writing University. The University of Iowa. October 17, 2018. Archived from the original on July 30, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  15. ^ "Brent Hayes Edwards receives 2019 Truman Capote Award | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | the University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  16. ^ "Fred Moten receives 2020 Truman Capote Award | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | the University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2022-07-30. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  17. ^ "Kay Ryan and Heather Clark Receive the 2021 and 2022 Truman Capote Awards | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | the University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2022-09-23. Retrieved 2022-09-23.
  18. ^ "Kay Ryan and Heather Clark Receive the 2021 and 2022 Truman Capote Awards | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | the University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2022-09-23. Retrieved 2022-09-23.

External links

  • Recipients of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism