World Courant
NEW YORK — Fiction author Aaliyah Bilal, a Nationwide E-book Award finalist final fall for her quick story assortment “Temple People,” is one among ten winners of the Whiting Award for Rising Authors. Bilal and the opposite recipients, together with fellow fiction writers Yoon Choi, Gothataone Moeng and Ada Zhang, will every obtain $50,000.
On Wednesday, the Whiting Basis introduced that Whiting Prizes had been additionally awarded to playwrights Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; in addition to poets Taylor Johnson, Charif Shanahan and Elisa Gonzalez; and to poet and non-fiction author Javier Zamora.
“The accuracy and fluid fantastic thing about their writing makes us excited in regards to the work to return,” mentioned Courtney Hodell, Whiting’s director of Literary Packages, in a press release about this yr’s winners.
The awards had been established in 1985 and former winners embody Tony Kushner, Mary Karr and Jeffrey Eugenides. The Whitings are designed to “determine distinctive new writers who’ve but to make their mark on literary tradition.”
Ten rising writers will every obtain a $50,000 Whiting Award
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