tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44213488351112544522024-02-20T17:27:41.199-08:00United States Literary AwardAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07752916656601455487noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421348835111254452.post-78898838963219144032013-12-19T10:37:00.001-08:002014-01-17T09:16:53.592-08:00United States Literary Award<br />
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United States Literary
Award – December 21, 2013</div>
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<i>No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his
expeditions in a precious casket. </i><i>A written word is the choicest of
relics.</i><i> </i><i>It is something at once
more intimate to us and more universal than any other work of art.</i><i> </i><i>It is the work of art nearest to life
itself….Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of
generations and nations.…Their authors are a natural and irresistible
aristocracy in</i><i> </i><i>every society, and,
more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.</i></div>
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Henry David Thoreau,
Walden (1854)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
United States Literary Award provides annual recognition for excellence in eight areas:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>non-fiction (35
categories), fiction (5 categories), poetry, drama, film (screenplay),
television (screenplay), music (lyrics), and lifetime achievement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The awards are officially announced on
the winter solstice (December 21st) at the web-site, through press-release, and
by mailed notice, including the certificate signed by the executive
director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All award decisions are
made on the basis of merit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
self-published work or a work published by a literary press is accorded the
same respect as a work released by a major university press or a venerated national
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The goal is to find, and
celebrate, excellence wherever it might be found, and share that discovery with
a new constituency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 2013
awards recognize works published in 2012 and 2013.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Works
may be submitted in any category throughout the year to:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John A. Murray, Executive Director,
USLA, P.O. Box 102345, Denver, Colorado 80250.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no submission fee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The current email address for the USLA
program is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="mailto:johnallenmurray@gmail.com">johnallenmurray@gmail.com</a>.</div>
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</span>2013 Award Recipients</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Non-Fiction<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(35 categories)</div>
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Nature:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and
Conservation, edited by Curt Meine (Library of America). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: A monumental tribute to the most
influential environmental leader and nature writer of the 20th Century. Leopold
led the effort for the creation of the world’s first designated wilderness area
(The Gila, 1924), which ultimately culminated in the Wilderness Act of 1964. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Fine Arts:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schenck in the 21st Century, The Myth of the Hero and the Truth of
America, by Amy Abrams (Western Skies Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: Fusing the innovations of
Pop Art with the natural and human landscapes of the Southwest, Billy Schenck has
created a timeless body of work.</div>
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Autobiography/</div>
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Memoir:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Waging Heavy Peace, by Neal
Young (Blue Rider Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing with
great skill and honesty, Neal Young presents a journey fully lived, and engages
his readers in the deeper narrative of his eventful era.</div>
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Translation:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Ingenious Gentlemen and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Heaven, by Carlos
Rojas, translated by Edith Grossman (Yale University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Citation: T</span>his compact masterpiece evokes the magical
best of Spanish literature, from Cervantes to Marquez.</div>
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American<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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West:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (Vintage).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A breathtaking
and revelatory work of personal exploration and transcendence. </div>
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Intellectual</div>
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History:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Algerian Chronicles, by Albert Camus – edited by Alice Kaplan and
translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard University Press). Citation: The
editor and translator are to be commended for providing readers with this indispensable
chronicle by the quintessential French philosopher of the 20th Century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Camus’s observations are timely and
relevant with respect to the Arab Spring, and are particularly germane<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> vis-à-vis recent events in Syria.</div>
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Biography:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geronimo, by Robert Utley (Yale University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert Utley, the dean of western historians, has presented
readers with a definitive biography that has been researched and written in
accordance to the highest literary standards.</div>
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Philosophy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Descartes’s Method of Doubt, by Janet Broughton (Princeton University
Press). Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Broughton
reminds us of Descartes’s primacy as a thinker who advanced skepticism and
doubt as vital tools in the search for the truth.</div>
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History:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Empires, Nations & Families:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A History of the North American West, 1800 – 1860, by Anne F. Hyde
(University of Nebraska Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation: Working brilliantly in the tradition of Bernard de Voto and William
Goetzmann, the author explores the social changes that attended an age of transcendent
progress on the continent.</div>
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Anthropology/</div>
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Archaeology:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncovering
History:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Archaeological
Investigations at the Little Bighorn, by Douglas D. Scott (University of
Oklahoma Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: Douglas D. Scott has produced a stellar book for students and scholars on the
most important battle in the American West. </div>
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Environmental</div>
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Advocacy:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vanishing
Animals of East Africa, by Nick Brandt (Abrams).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nick Brandt is to be commended for this outstanding work of
environmental advocacy, written and illustrated in the crusader tradition of
John James Audubon, George Caitlin, and William Henry Jackson.</div>
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Essay:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Letters to a Young Scientist, by E.O. Wilson (Norton) – Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Wilson distils a life-time of
wisdom into this radiant volume, which is as insightful as Rilke’s Letters to a
Young Poet or Camus’s Letters to a German Friend.</div>
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Illustration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
of the Buildings of New York That I’ve Drawn So Far, by James Gulliver Hancock (Universe
Publishing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hancock inspires us to regard the urban
landscape in new and liberating ways, as he “remaps” one of the great cities in
the history of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Music:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Horizon:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mississippi
Hill Country Blues 1967, by George Mitchell (University Press of
Mississippi).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitchell takes us back to the
birthplace of the blues and re-acquaints us with one of the most vibrant
musical landscapes in modern times.</div>
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Law:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking the Stand:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Life
in the Law, by Allan Derschowitz (Crown).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor
Derschowitz is the consummate American lawyer, and has remained vitally engaged
in the central legal issues of his era for half a century.</div>
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Classics:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Complete Greek Tragedies, by David Greene and Richard Lattimore,
third edition edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most (Princeton University
Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: No library,
public or private, can consider its collection on classical literature to be complete
without this wonderful new third edition.</div>
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American</div>
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East:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Secret Lives of Red Wolves:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Fight to Save America’s Other Wolf, by T. Delene Beeland (University
of North Carolina Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story of the
preservation of the red wolf attests to the best in the American spirit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reverence for life, love of wild
nature, and generosity.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Letters:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume I, 1886 – 1921, Edited by Donald
Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen (Harvard University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As with the letters of T.S. Eliot, the letters of Robert
Frost provide a rare in-depth look at the origins of modern poetry, as we witness
the flowering of a genius and a literary age.</div>
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Photography:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curb Service, A Memoir by Scott Sothern (Counterpoint). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the tradition of Weegee, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Diane
Arbus, Scott Sothern preserves, in photographs and words, a rarely documented
part of society as he sees and experiences it.</div>
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Political<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></div>
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Science:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Losing
the Center:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Decline of
American Liberalism, 1968 – 1992, by Jeffrey Bloodworth (University of Kentucky
Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this essential work, the author
documents, through detailed biographical and archival analysis, how the
Democratic party began to unravel as it drifted from the mainstream that had
sustained it from the 1930s through the early 1960s.</div>
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Jewish Studies:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Jewish Life
on Three Continents, by Menachem Mendel Frienden, translated by the author’s
grandson Lee Wiessbach (Stanford University Press Studies in Jewish History).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: This fascinating memoir,
originally written in Hebrew, takes us back to the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century, before Jewish life in Europe was changed forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stanford University Press is to commended
for this invaluable series.</div>
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Psychology:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Natural History of Human Thinking, by Robert Zaretsky (Harvard
University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author explores the nature of human
consciousness with a vigorous and original approach, and makes a well-reasoned
case for the importance of social interaction.</div>
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Religion:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earthly Mission:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Catholic Church and World Development, by Robert Calderisi (Yale University
Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic
Church remains one of the unifying forces of civilization, and this fine book
pays fitting tribute to the complex role of the church as a stabilizing force in
the modern world.</div>
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American:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sun Chief:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, by Don C. Talavesya, edited by Leo W. Simmons
(Yale University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rare
and exemplary book, first published in 1963, that ranks with Jason Betzinez’s I
Fought <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Geronimo (1959) and
the account of Pretty Shield (Frank Lindermann, Red Mother, 1932) as one of the
classic biographies of American Indian life.</div>
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Asian studies:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lost
Enlightenment:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Central Asia’s
Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, by S. Frederick Starr
(Princeton University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation: A magisterial work of scholarship that takes us from the age
of Mohammed to Marlowe’s Tamerlane.</div>
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Science:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturalists at Sea:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scientific Travelers from Dampier to Darwin, by Glyn Williams (Yale
University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Citation: </span>The early European
explorers – William Dampier, Joseph Banks, Captain Cook, La Perouse, Malaspina,
Charles Darwin – made exciting new scientific discoveries on every continent,
and helped lay the foundation for the modern world.</div>
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Fine Art</div>
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Photography:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolution:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifty
Photographs from Europe, by Roman Loranc (Photography West Graphics).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For twenty years Roman Loranc has found rare beauty in the
urban and rural landscapes of Europe and America, and his new book is a
testament to the purity and strength of his creative genius.</div>
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Criticism:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parabolas of Science Fiction, by Brian Atterly and Veronica Hollinger
(Wesleyan University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book represents
a major breakthrough in the field of literary criticism, as it expands and
develops an exciting new approach for the analysis of a relatively new genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Mathematics:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love and
Math:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Heart of Hidden Reality,
by Edward Frankel (Basic Books).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Frankel has produced a magnificent
overview of the challenges facing mathematicians as they seek to unify
disparate areas of research on the frontiers of human knowledge.</div>
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Islamic
Studies:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pakistan’s
Blasphemy Law, by Shememm Burney Abbas (University of Texas Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This important work documents how the current rulers of
Pakistan have used blasphemy laws to suppress dissent and impose conformity
thinking on a people who yearn for freedom and are in desperate need of social
and economic justice. </div>
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Legal</div>
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Decision: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Judge
Richard D. Leon, Klayman versus Obama, United States District Court for the District
of Columbia (December 16, 2013).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judge Leon is to
be commended for the power of his reasoning and the eloquence of his writing in
this key 4th Amendment case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
his 68-page decision he wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
have little doubt that the author of our Constitution, James Madison, who
cautioned us to ‘beware the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and
silent encroachment of those in power’ would be aghast.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His courageous ruling represents a significant
victory for the rule of law in our country, and is written in accordance to the
highest standards of his guild.</div>
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Education:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Program Era:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Postwar
Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, by Mark McGurl (Harvard University Press, new in
paperback).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An exemplary book that honestly
appraises the efficacy of the AWP era, when universities profited at the
expense of credulous young writers, most of whom found no professional
employment and were faced with crippling debt.</div>
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Blogs:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jorma Kaukonen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one has done more
for American music than the former member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot
Tuna, who now maintains an Appalachian music center on his southeastern Ohio
farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His blogs are always a joy to
read, and will brighten any day.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Interviews:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Terry Southern, interviewed in 1967 by Maggie Paley, published
posthumously in 2012 as ‘The Art of Screen-writing” (The Paris Review).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Terry Southern, who achieved cinematic excellence with the
screenplays for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) and Easy Rider (1969),
greatly advanced the literary form during the modern film era.</div>
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Newspaper</div>
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Columns: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David
Brooks, New York Times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Brooks is,
simply put, a national treasure. </div>
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</span>Poetry<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></div>
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W.S. Merwin:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collected
Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy (Library of America). Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No other poet in the modern era has
created such a radiant, unified, and timeless body of work.</div>
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Novel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>House
of Earth, by Woody Guthrie (Harper Collins).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This novel
forever enriches the cultural heritage of the United States, and enhances our understanding
of, and appreciation for, the father of modern folk and protest music.</div>
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Short Fiction:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Corpse Washer, by Sinan Antoon, translated from the Arabic by the
author (Yale University Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinan Antoon
bears eloquent witness to an era of heart-breaking tragedy and violence in one
of the oldest cities in the world, Baghdad.</div>
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Fantasy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord of Shadows, by Erin Ewer (Liquid Fae Studios, self-published).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An outstanding achievement in one of the world’s most
ancient and distinguished genres.</div>
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Fiction:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dog
Stars, by Peter Heller (Vintage).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Citation: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author mixes
James Dickey and Cormac McCarthy and creates an end-of-the-world tale that is
full of strange twists and amazing surprises.</div>
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Crime/Mystery:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rope, by Nevada Barr (St.
Martin’s).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dark desert tale that evokes The Woman
in The Dunes (1962) of Kobo Abe, as well as the myth of Sisyphus.</div>
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4000 Miles, by Amy Herzog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A resonant
play that focuses on two lives in transition that intersect, and are then forever
changed as a result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In its compression
and verisimilitude, it recalls the classic works of Tennessee Williams,William Inge,
and Horton Foote.</div>
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Screenplay for Django Unchained, by Quentin Tarentino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This film confirms Quentin Tarentino’s mastery of the
literary form of screen-writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Screenplay for Game of Thrones, Season III (HBO).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The script mixes the lively spirit of the Elizabethan stage
with the best of modern British screen-writing to take the medium to an
entirely new level of serious drama.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lifetime Achievement<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Bob Dylan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Citation: </span>For half
a century, beginning with his first album in 1962, Bob Dylan has created immortal
lyrics in the troubador tradition that began with Francois Villon, the venerated
father of French poetry.</div>
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