Chautauqua 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]

The Chautauqua Prize
Date	Annual
Country	United States
Presented by	Chautauqua Institution
First awarded	2012
Website	http://www.ciweb.org/prize

Winners and runners-up

• 2012: Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn[2]
  • Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
  • Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
  • Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
  • Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos
  • Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
• 2013: Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[4]
  • Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club
  • Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove
  • Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
  • John Colman Wood, The Names of Things
• 2014: Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign Cities[5]
  • Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness: Stories
  • Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
  • Roger Rosenblatt, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
  • James Tobin, The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
  • Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
• 2015: Phil Klay, Redeployment[6]
  • Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
  • Kim Church, Byrd
  • Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
  • Lily King, Euphoria
  • Jason Sokol, All Eyes Are Upon Us
  • Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great
  • Jean Thompson, The Witch
• 2016: Cyrus Copeland, Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest
  • Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
  • Lenore Myka, King of the Gypsies: Stories
  • Steven Niteingale, Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
  • Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
• 2017: Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes[7]
  • H. W. Brands, The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
  • Victoria Pope Hubbell, Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s
  • Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
  • Colin Woodard, American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
  • Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
• 2018: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir[8]
  • Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
  • Glenn Frankel, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
  • Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
  • Meg Howrey, The Wanderers
  • Andrew Krivák, The Signal Flame
  • Dalia Rosenfeld, The Worlds We Think We Know
• 2019: Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used For God[9]
  • Edward Carey, Little
  • Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
  • Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir
  • Richard Powers, The Overstory
  • Elizabeth Rush, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
  • Elizabeth H. Winthrop, The Mercy Seat
• 2020: Petina Gappah, Out of Darkness, Shining Light [10]
  • Mikhal Dekel, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
  • Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  • Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes
  • Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
  • Imani Perry, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
  • Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

References

1. Ron Charles (October 24, 2011). "Chautauqua Institution announces new literary prize". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
2. Staff writer (April 29, 2012). "The Sojourn Wins Inaugural Chautauqua Prize". The Post-Journal. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
3. "The Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua official website. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
4. Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
5. "My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro win 2014 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. May 15, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
6. "Redeployment wins 2015 Chautauqua Prize". Westfield Republician. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
7. "Peter Ho Davies' The Fortunes wins 2017 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution News & Announcements. May 23, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
8. 21, 2020
9. 21, 2020
10. "Winners & Shortlists". chq.org. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

External links

• The Chautauqua Prize, official website.