Pen/Hemingway Award
Dates: 4/19/02,3:35 PM through 4/22/02,1:23 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: BookBitch <bookbitch@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/19/02, 3:35 PM
I need the help of the collective brain here.
I'm putting together a list of award winning
fiction for my newly established RA program, and
I've run into an enigma.
Who won the 1993 PEN/Hemingway award for first
fiction?
I Googled it and there are two titles that claim
the prize for that year.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by
Sherman J. Alexie, Jr.
and
The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
Friday afternoon fun...
Thanks,
Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System
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FROM: Barry Trott <btrott@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 4/19/02, 3:52 PM
However, the PEN New England Web site (PEN NE now administers the
Hemingway award) lists the Edward Jones title as the 1992 winner and the
Gilb title as the 1993 winner. No mention of Alexie. The PEN NE site is
http://www.pen-ne.org/. Click on the awards link and then on past winners.
Barry
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, BookBitch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need the help of the collective brain here.
> I'm putting together a list of award winning
> fiction for my newly established RA program, and
> I've run into an enigma.
>
> Who won the 1993 PEN/Hemingway award for first
> fiction?
>
> I Googled it and there are two titles that claim
> the prize for that year.
>
> The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by
> Sherman J. Alexie, Jr.
>
> and
>
> The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
>
> Friday afternoon fun...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stacy Alesi
> Southwest County Regional Library
> Palm Beach County Library System
>
>
>
> =====
> I am the BookBitch
> www.bookbitch.com
>
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FROM: Candice Michalik <cjoy0821@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/21/02, 3:59 PM
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FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/22/02, 1:23 PM
The DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY from Gale publishes a YEARBOOK
series which includes, among other things, award information. The
1992 YEARBOOK includes "Literary Awards and Honors Announced in
1992," for instance, and they list there for the "Pen/Hemingway
Foundation Award" THE ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark
Richard, and the 1994 YEARBOOK lists for same "Announced in 1994"
THE MAGIC OF BLOOD by Dagoberto Gilb. But the 1993 YEARBOOK,
which does list seven other Pen awards "announced in 1993" makes
no mention of a Pen/Hemingway Foundation award for that year.
So: did they not award one that year, or was it left out in error?
(I've found omissions and inconsistencies of coverage from year
to year before in the YEARBOOK series as regards various genre
awards.) Since both the Gilb and Alexie books were published in
1993, I would think they would have been eligible the same year
and the winner would have been announced in 1994 and, per YEARBOOK,
that winner is Gilb. But I'd feel happier if I had an "announced
in 1993" winner to add to the mix. . . .
So, checking further, DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY's own entry
on Alexie (in vol. 175) says that he received a Pen/Hemingway award
for THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN "in 1993." If
this is literally true, the award must have (a) been awarded in the
same year the book came out, rather than the following year, and
(b) accidentally omitted from the YEARBOOK listing, both possible.
In a LEXIS NEXIS search, I find this reference:
Copyright 1994 The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times
August 21, 1994, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: BOOKS; Pg. M3
LENGTH: 621 words
HEADLINE: NORTHWEST BOOKSHELF
BYLINE: BY MICHAEL UPCHURCH
BODY:
A biweekly selection of new titles by Washington writers and publishers,
or of local interest:
Fiction
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven," by Sherman Alexie
(HarperPerennial, $ 12). Paperback edition of a short-story collection
by the Governor's Writers Award-winning Native American writer from
Spokane who now lives in Seattle. The book also won a PEN/Hemingway
citation and this year's Great Lakes College Association Award for
Best Book of First Fiction.
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Maybe, as someone suggested, a "citation" is an honorable mention
sort of thing for runners-up rather than the actual award? (Since
it's a short story collection, I'd hope it would not in any case
have won an award for best first *novel* -- if that is what the
award was supposedly for.)
Still a mystery.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
At 04:50 PM 4/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>To add to the confusion, according to the literary award database the
>winner of the 1993 PEN/Hemingway first novel award was Edward Jones for
>Lost in the City. This site lists Gilb's The Magic of Blood as the 1994
>winner.
>
>However, the PEN New England Web site (PEN NE now administers the
>Hemingway award) lists the Edward Jones title as the 1992 winner and the
>Gilb title as the 1993 winner. No mention of Alexie. The PEN NE site is
>http://www.pen-ne.org/. Click on the awards link and then on past winners.
>
>Barry
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>Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
>Adult Services Director Williamsburg VA 23188
>Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4053
>btrott@mail.wrl.org FAX: 757-259-4079
> http://www.wrl.org/bookweb/
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>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, BookBitch wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need the help of the collective brain here.
>> I'm putting together a list of award winning
>> fiction for my newly established RA program, and
>> I've run into an enigma.
>>
>> Who won the 1993 PEN/Hemingway award for first
>> fiction?
>>
>> I Googled it and there are two titles that claim
>> the prize for that year.
>>
>> The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by
>> Sherman J. Alexie, Jr.
>>
>> and
>>
>> The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
>>
>> Friday afternoon fun...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stacy Alesi
>> Southwest County Regional Library
>> Palm Beach County Library System
>>
>>
>>
>> =====
>> I am the BookBitch
>> www.bookbitch.com
>>
>> __________________________________________________
>> Do You Yahoo!?
>> Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
>> http://taxes.yahoo.com/
>>
>> ......................................................................
>> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>>
>
>
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