The American Academy of Arts and Letters has given novelist David Mitchell the $20,000 E.M. Forster Award. The prize intended to help “a young writer from the United Kingdom or Ireland for a stay in the United States.”
In all, the academy gave $160,000 in awards to 18 different writers for its annual awards. The awards will be handed out at a ceremony in May. Winners are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy.
We’ve listed all the winners below. (Via Sarah Weinman)
Arts and Letters Awards in Literature
$7500 Arts and Letters Awards in Literature
ANDRE DUBUS III
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
DAVID LINDSAY–ABAIRE
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON
JULIE OTSUKA
MICHAEL PALMER
FREDERICK SEIDEL
TIMOTHY SNYDER
$5,000 Michael Braude Award for Light Verse: ROGER ANGELL
$5,000 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction: ISMET PRCIC
$20,000 Katherine Anne Porter Award: MAUREEN HOWARD
$10,000 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award: TEJU COLE
Rome Fellowships in Literature: LUCY CORIN, JESSICA FISHER
$10,000 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award: PETER CAREY
$20,000 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation: MICHAEL HOFMANN
$10,000 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award: ANDREW SARRIS