Chautauqua Prize

The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012.[1][2] The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua.[2] It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."[3]

The Chautauqua Prize
DateAnnual
CountryUnited States
Presented byChautauqua Institution
First awarded2012
Websitehttp://www.ciweb.org/prize

Honorees

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Chautauqua Prize winners and shortlist[4]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2012Andrew KrivakThe SojournWinner[2]
Geraldine BrooksCaleb's CrossingShortlist[5]
Erik LarsonIn the Garden of BeastsShortlist[5]
Nathaniel PhilbrickWhy Read Moby-Dick?Shortlist[5]
Stephanie Powell WattsWe Are Taking Only What We NeedShortlist[5]
Leonard RosenAll Cry ChaosShortlist[5]
2013Timothy EganShort Nights of the Shadow CatcherWinner[6][7]
Nancy Gibbs and Michael DuffyThe Presidents ClubShortlist[8]
Ben FountainBilly Lynn's Long Halftime WalkWinner[8]
Gilbert KingDevil in the GroveShortlist[8]
Madeline MillerThe Song of AchillesShortlist[8]
John Colman WoodThe Names of ThingsShortlist[8]
2014Elizabeth ScarboroMy Foreign CitiesWinner[9][10]
Louise AronsonA History of the Present Illness: StoriesShortlist[11]
Lindsay HillSea of HooksShortlist[11]
Roger RosenblattThe Boy Detective: A New York ChildhoodShortlist[11]
James TobinThe Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the PresidencyShortlist[11]
Margaret WrinkleWashShortlist[11]
2015Phil KlayRedeploymentWinner[12][13]
Michael BlandingThe Map ThiefShortlist[14]
Kim ChurchByrdShortlist[14]
Brian HartThe Bully of OrderShortlist[14]
Lily KingEuphoriaShortlist[14]
Jason SokolAll Eyes Are Upon UsShortlist[14]
Bilal TanweerThe Scatter Here Is Too GreatShortlist[14]
Jean ThompsonThe WitchShortlist[14]
2016Cyrus CopelandOff the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's QuestWinner[15]
Lynsey AddarioIt's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and WarShortlist[16]
Lenore MykaKing of the Gypsies: StoriesShortlist[16]
Steven NiteingaleGranada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of GodShortlist[16]
Susan SouthardNagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarShortlist[16]
2017Peter Ho DaviesThe FortunesWinner[17][18]
H. W. BrandsThe General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear WarShortlist[19]
Victoria Pope HubbellBlood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920sShortlist[19]
Ben WintersUnderground AirlinesShortlist[19]
Colin WoodardAmerican Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common GoodShortlist[19]
Kao Kalia YangThe Song Poet: A Memoir of My FatherShortlist[19]
2018Alex Marzano-LesnevichThe Fact of a Body: A Murder and a MemoirWinner[20]
Hala AlyanSalt HousesShortlist[21]
Glenn FrankelHigh Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American ClassicShortlist[21]
Anne GislesonThe Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and ReadingShortlist[21]
Meg HowreyThe WanderersShortlist[21]
Andrew KrivákThe Signal FlameShortlist[21]
Dalia RosenfeldThe Worlds We Think We KnowShortlist[21]
2019Anjali SachdevaAll the Names They Used For GodWinner[22]
Edward CareyLittleShortlist[23][24]
Ken KrimsteinThe Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of TruthShortlist[23][24]
Kiese LaymonHeavy: An American MemoirShortlist[23][24]
Richard PowersThe OverstoryShortlist[23][24][25]
Elizabeth RushRising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreShortlist[23][24]
Elizabeth H. WinthropThe Mercy SeatShortlist[23][24]
2020Petina GappahOut of Darkness, Shining LightWinner[26]
Mikhal DekelTehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee OdysseyShortlist[27]
Carolyn ForchéWhat You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and ResistanceShortlist
Myla GoldbergFeast Your EyesShortlist
Isabella HammadThe ParisianShortlist
Imani PerryBreathe: A Letter to My SonsShortlist
Pitchaya SudbanthadBangkok Wakes to RainShortlist
2021Eula BissHaving and Being HadWinner
Louise ErdrichThe Night WatchmanShortlist
Danielle EvansThe Office of Historical CorrectionsShortlist
Yaa GyasiTranscendent KingdomShortlist
Andrew KrivakThe BearShortlist
Natasha TretheweyMemorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirShortlist
Matthew Van MeterDeep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the SouthShortlist
C Pam ZhangHow Much of These Hills is GoldShortlist
2022Rebecca DonnerAll The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerWinner[28]
Daniel James BrownFacing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War IIShortlist[29]
Victoria ChangDear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and GriefShortlist[29]
Ash DavidsonDamnation SpringShortlist[29]
Robert Jones, Jr.The ProphetsShortlist[29]
Tiya MilesAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeShortlist[29]
Jason MottHell of a BookShortlist[29]
Samantha SilvaLove and Fury: A Novel of Mary WollstonecraftShortlist[29]
Dorothy WickendenThe Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's RightsShortlist[29]
Hilma WolitzerToday a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: StoriesShortlist[29]
2023Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanWinner
Hafizah Augustus GeterThe Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and OriginShortlist
Levi Vonk with Axel KirschnerBorder Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the RunShortlist
Meron HaderoA Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: StoriesShortlist
Jenny Tinghui ZhangFour Treasures of the SkyShortlist
Geraldine BrooksHorseShortlist
Jean Hanff KorelitzThe LatecomerShortlist
Kristina Gorcheva-NewberryThe OrchardShortlist
Javier ZamoraSolito: A MemoirShortlist
Sidik FofanaStories from the Tenants DownstairsShortlist
2024Tananarive DueThe ReformatoryWinner
Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahChain-Gang All-StarsShortlist
Isabella HammadEnter GhostShortlist
Paul HardingThis Other EdenShortlist
Kelly LinkWhite Cat, Black Dog: StoriesShortlist
Emily StrasserHalf-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden HistoryShortlist

References

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