Lannan Literary Awards

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The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. The foundation's awards are some of the most lucrative in the world. The 2006 awards for poetry, fiction and nonfiction each came with $150,000. 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 awards reflect the progressive, left-wing philosophy governing the Lannan Foundation, a family foundation that 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."^[2]

Awards have gone both to literary stars, such as W.S. Merwin, and also to those more known more for their politics than their literary talents, such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Edward Said. The foundation also gives out 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."^[3] The prize recently went to Robert Fisk. Other prize winners have been 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]

Contents 1 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry 2 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction 3 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction 4 2005 Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book 5 Lannan Literary Fellowship 6 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award 7 See also 8 Notes 9 External links

[edit] Lannan Literary Award for Poetry

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 Saenz

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 2005 Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book

• 2005: The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, by Andrew J. Bacevich

[edit] Lannan Literary Fellowship

2007: Paula Gunn Allen 2007: Daniel Alarcón 2007: Edie Meidav 2007: Dinaw Mengestu 2007: Sineád Morrissey 2007: Jeremy Scahill 2006: Chris Hedges 2006: Elizabeth Kolbert 2006: Charles C. Mann 2006: Peter Orner 2006: Brian Turner 2005: 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: Ruben Martinez 2001: Barbara Ehrenreich 2001: Deborah Levy 2001: David Wong Louie 2001: Lorrie Moore 2001: George Saunders 1993: William Everson

[edit] Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award

• 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

[edit] See also

• American literature
• American poetry
• List of poetry awards
• List of literature awards
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} [1] Lannan Foundation Web site, Web page titled "Literary Awards and Fellowships", accessed November 8, 2006.
2. ^ [2] Lannan Foundation Web site, Web page titled "Welcome to Lannan Online", accessed November 8, 2006
3. ^ [3] Lannan Foundation Web site, Web page titled "Cultural Freedom Prize", accessed November 8, 2006

[edit] External links

• Lannan Foundation Web site