LIBRARY NOTES
Library Members Take Literary Honors
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Library congratulates the following members who have been honored with recent awards and fellowships:
Ellen Feldman is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts Fiction category. Her most recent novel, Scottsboro, was shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Frances FitzGerald has been awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts General Non-Fiction category. She is an author and journalist who won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for her history Fire in the Lake, an account of the Vietnam war.
John Hargraves has won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for
The Executor, his translation of Michael Kruger's Die Turiner Komodie.
Elizabeth Strout is the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a novel of interrelated stories about a retired schoolteacher and the people who inhabit her world in Crosby, Maine.
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