Entries Tagged 'prizes and awards' ↓

My fellow New Orleanian, Bill Loehfelm, was announced the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award earlier this month. Loehfelm wrote the winning novel, Fresh Kills, after his return to the city following Hurricane Katrina.

According to Publishers Weekly, “The action plays out on the mean streets of Staten Island and its famous garbage dump, Fresh Kills, and the author evokes the particulars of lower middle class life with great understanding.”

The novel will be published by the G. P. Putnam’s Sons imprint of Penguin Group (USA) in Summer 2008, and is available now for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Congratulations, Bill!

Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?, a non-fiction account of Jane Haynes’ life as a psychotherapist, has made the shortlist for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for memoir and autobiography. It is the first self-published book to do so.

The prize was first awarded in 1982, in honor of author Joe Randolph Ackerley, who was long-time literary editor of The Listener magazine. His sister Nancy endowed the prize in his memory, and it is funded through Acklery’s posthumous royalties.

The other finalists for the prize this year are The Islamist by Ed Husain, In My Father’s House by Miranda Seymour, The Presence by Dannie Abse and Family Romance by John Lanchester.

The winner will be announced on June 10.