William Dean Howells Medal
The William Dean Howells Medal (English: William Dean Howells Medal ) is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is an American literary prize . The award is named after William Dean Howells and was first awarded in 1925. Prize winners are only elected every five years. Usually the award is given for the most extraordinary American novel published in the past five years. However, some of the prizes were also awarded in recognition of the overall work.
The selection committee consists of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Those academy members who have been proposed by another member are entitled to vote.
Medalist
| year | writer | Original title of the excellent novel | German title | Other awards or comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | |||
| 1930 | Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Death comes to the archbishop | |
| 1935 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth | The good earth | Nobel Prize in literature |
| 1940 | Ellen Glasgow | |||
| 1945 | Booth Tarkington | |||
| 1950 | William Faulkner | Nobel Prize in literature | ||
| 1955 | Eudora Welty | The Ponder Heart | - | |
| 1960 | James Gould Cozzens | By Love Possessed | Ruled by love | |
| 1965 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Scandal | The history of the wapshots | National Book Award |
| 1970 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner | Nat Turner's Confessions | Pulitzer Prize |
| 1975 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | The ends of the parabola | Pynchon declined the award. He also received the National Book Award for the novel . The Pulitzer Prize Committee rejected the jury's proposal to award the novel the Pulitzer Prize because of profanity and illegibility. |
| 1980 | William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow | See you tomorrow |
National Book Award Maxwell was President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1969 to 1972. |
| 1985 | No award given | |||
| 1990 | EL Doctorow | Billy Bathgate | Billy Bathgate | |
| 1995 | John Updike | Rabbit at rest | Rabbit at rest | |
| 2000 | Don DeLillo | Underworld | Underworld | |
| 2005 | Shirley Hazzard | The great fire | The great fire | |
| 2010 | Peter Matthiesen | Shadow Country | - |
National Book Award Shadow Country is a revision of Matthiessens Everglades Triology ( Killing Mister Watson , Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone ). |
| 2015 | William Gass | Middle C |
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ American Academy of Arts and Letters - Awards List ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 19, 2014
- ↑ Award Winner Willa Cather ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ theguardian: Thomas Pynchon (Tuesday 22 July 2008 15:39) .
- ↑ Matthiessen's biography on Pinguin Books USA , accessed on July 18, 2014
