The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews.[1] It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.
The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.
Awards
edit| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Norman Fruchter | Coat Upon a Stick | [3] |
| 1964 | Seymour Epstein | Leah | |
| 1965 | Hugh Nissenson | A Pile of Stones | |
| 1966 | Gene Hurwitz | Home Is Where You Start From | |
| 1967 | Chaim Potok | The Chosen | |
| 1968 | No award | ||
| 1969 | Leo Litwak | Waiting for the News | |
| 1970 | No award | ||
| 1971 | Cynthia Ozick | The Pagan Rabbi | |
| 1972 | Robert Kotlowitz | Somewhere Else | |
| 1973 | Arthur A. Cohen | In the Days of Simon Stern | |
| 1974 | Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | Anya | |
| 1975 | Anne Bernays | Growing Up Rich | |
| 1976 | No award | ||
| 1977 | Curt Leviant | The Yemenite Girl | |
| 1978 | No award | ||
| 1979 | No award | ||
| 1980 | Johanna Kaplan | O My America! | |
| 1981 | Allen Hoffman | Kagan's Superfecta | |
| 1982 | No award | ||
| 1983 | Francine Prose | Hungry Hearts | |
| 1984 | No award | ||
| 1985 | Jay Neugeboren | Before My Life Began | |
| 1986 | Daphne Merkin | Enchantment | |
| 1987 | Steve Stern | Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven | |
| 1988 | Tova Reich | Master of the Return | |
| 1989 | Jerome Badanes | The Final Opus of Leon Solomon | |
| 1990 | No award | ||
| 1991 | No award | ||
| 1992 | Melvin Jules Bukiet | Stories of an Imaginary Childhood | |
| 1993 | Gerald Shapiro | From Hunger | |
| 1994 | No award | ||
| 1995 | Rebecca Goldstein | Mazel | |
| 1996 | Thane Rosenbaum | Elijah Visible | |
| 1997 | Harvey Grossinger | The Quarry | |
| 1998 | No award | ||
| 1999 | Allegra Goodman | Kaaterskill Falls | |
| 2000 | Judy Budnitz | If I Told You Once | |
| 2001 | Myla Goldberg | Bee Season | |
| 2002 | Dara Horn | In the Image | [3] |
| 2003 | Joan Leegant | An Hour in Paradise | [4] |
| 2004 | Jonathan Rosen | Joy Comes in the Morning | |
| 2005 | Nicole Krauss | The History of Love | |
| 2006 | No award | ||
| 2007 | Ehud Havazelet | Bearing the Body | |
| 2008 | Eileen Pollack | In the Mouth | [5] |
| 2009 | Sara Houghteling | Pictures at an Exhibition | |
| 2010 | Julie Orringer | The Invisible Bridge | |
| 2011 | Edith Pearlman | Binocular Vision | |
| 2012 | Joshua Henkin | The World Without You | [5][6] |
| 2013 | Kenneth Bonert | The Lion Seeker | |
| 2014 | David Bezmozgis | The Betrayers | [5] |
| 2015 | Rebecca Dinerstein | The Sunlit Night | |
| 2016 | Ayelet Tsabari | The Best Place on Earth | |
| 2017 | Margot Singer | Underground Fugue | [7] |
| 2018 | Eduardo Halfon | Mourning | [8] |
| 2019 | Peter Orner | Maggie Brown & Others | |
| 2020 | Lee Conell | The Party Upstairs | [9] |
References
edit- ^ "Edward Lewis Wallant Award (University of Hartford)". American Writers Museum. Archived from the original on 2023-09-25. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Edward Lewis Wallant Award". University of Hartford. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ a b Pinsker, Sanford (2003-03-21). "Wallant Worthies Are Instantly Recognizable". The Forward. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Leegant wins distinguished writing awards". Harvard Gazette. 2004-06-03. Archived from the original on 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ a b c "Bezmozgis wins Wallant Award for 'The Betrayers'". CT Insider. 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Awards: IACP; Edward Lewis Wallant; Walt Whitman; Griffin". Shelf Awareness. 2013-04-12. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Awards: Wallant Winner; Sunday Times EFG Short Story; PEN/Barber Freedom to Write". Shelf Awareness. 2018-02-15. Archived from the original on 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ^ Bolton-Fasman, Judy (2019-04-09). "Novelist Eduardo Halfon Wins Edward Lewis Wallant Award". Jewish Boston. Archived from the original on 2023-01-30. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Klaps, Inge (2021-01-20). "Lee Conell (MFA '15) is 2020 Wallant Award recipient". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2024-04-24.