Matt Fraction Wins the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award for Graphic Literature
PEN USA, the West Coast center for the renowned writers’ organization International PEN, has unveiled the winners of its prestigious 2010 Literary Awards competition. The prizes, announced by PEN USA Executive Director Adam Somers, honor outstanding work by writers in 11 separate genres, including a new award for Graphic Literature. They will be presented at the 20th Annual Literary Awards Festival, known as LitFest, which will be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on the evening of Wednesday, November 17, 2010.
This year is the first year that the organization has handed out a award for graphic fiction, and they chose to give it to Matt Fraction. The award wasn’t given for any specific title that Fraction has worked on, but rather for “For His Outstanding Body of Work”.
Might impressive! Check out the full list of winners an finalists, listed below:
FICTION
Scott Blackwood: We Agreed to Meet Just Here (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Robert Boswell: The Heydey of Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press)
Ryan Boudinot: Misconception (Grove/Atlantic)
Laird Hunt: Ray of the Star (Coffee House Press)
Judged by: Susan Taylor Chehak, Alistair McCartney, Amy Wallen
Amy Catanzano: Multiversal (Fordham University Press)
Dan Beachy-Quick: The Nest, Swift Passerine (Tupelo Press)
Douglas Kearney: The Black Automaton (Fence Books)
Rachel Loden: Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press)
Joseph Stroud: Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
Judged by: Seido Ray Ronci, Robyn Schiff, Richard Siken
Vicki Forman: This Lovely Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Charles Bowden: Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Stephen Elliott: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Graywolf Press)
Jarvis Jay Masters: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row (HarperOne)
Gregory Orfalea: Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics (University of Arizona Press)
Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Dan Baum: Nine Lives: Death and Live in New Orleans (Random House Publishing Group)
Lesley Hazleton: After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam (Doubleday Publishing)
Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Carol Sklenicka: Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
Judged by: Bruce Barcott, Leslie Chang, Andrew Ward
Kate DiCamillo: The Magician’s Elephant (Candlewick Press)
Benjamin Alire Saenz: Last Night I Sang to the Monster (Cinco Puntos Press)
Liz Garton Scanlon: All the World (Beach Lane Books)
Judged by: Jonathan Hunt, Julie Larios, Lola Schaefer
Mary Melton: Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures (Los Angeles Magazine)
Megan Feldman: Gimme Shelter (Dallas Observer)
Kristen Hinman: Vanishing Act (River Front Times)
Matthew Segal: Spokes People (Los Angeles Magazine)
Joe Wilkins: Out West: Growing Up Hard (Orion Magazine)
Judged by: Ken Armstrong, Ben Ehrenreich, Nick Perry
Fady Joudah: Mahmoud Darwish’s If I Were Another (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sean Cotter: Liliana Ursu’s Lightwall (Zephyr Press)
Stephen Kessler: Luis Cernuda’s Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press)
Donald Revell: Arthur Rimbaud’s The Illuminations (Omnidawn Publishing)
Edward Snow: The Poetry of Rilke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Julie Hebert: Tree
Boni B. Alvarez: Ruby, Tragically Rotund
Michael Golamco: Year Zero
Victor Lodato: Dear Sara Jane
Caridad Svich: Instructions for Breathing
Judged by: Jennifer Maisel, Marisela Trevino Orta, Lauren Yee
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner: Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures)
Mark Boal: The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber: 500 Days of Summer (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema: Grey Gardens (HBO)
Judged by: Neil Cuthbert, Wallace King, Neil Landau
Peter Blake: House: The Tyrant (NBC)
Marti Noxon & Cathryn Humphris & Matthew Weiner: Mad Men: The Gypsy and the Hobo (AMC)
Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer: Big Love: On Trial (HBO)
John Shiban: Breaking Bad: Phoenix (AMC)
Moira Walley-Beckett: Breaking Bad: Over (AMC)
GRAPHIC LITERATURE
Winner:
EXCEPTIONAL FIRST BOOK AWARD
Angela Garcia: The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (University of California Press)
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