- Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language.
This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated in 1981 by Mrs. Drue Heinz and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. It has recognized and supported writers of short fiction and made their work available to readers around the world.
The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals. Manuscripts are judged anonymously by nationally known writers; past judges have included Robert Penn Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Chabon, Frank Conroy, Richard Ford, John Edgar Wideman, Nadine Gordimer, and Rick Moody. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The winner is announced in February of each year.
Winners
Pulitzer Prize winner and University of Pittsburgh alumnus Michael Chabon served as the senior judge in 2004
Year Winning Author Title Senior Judge 2010 Tina May Hall The Physics of Imaginary Objects Renata Adler 2009 Anne Sanow Triple Time Ann Patchett 2008 Anthony Varallo Out Loud Scott Turow 2007 Kirk Nesset Paradise Road Hilary Masters 2006 Todd James Pierce Newsworld Joan Didion 2005 David Harris Ebenbach Between Camelots Stewart O'Nan 2004 Darrell Spencer Bring Your Legs with You Michael Chabon 2003 Suzanne Greenberg Speed-Walk and Other Stories Rick Moody 2002 John Blair American Standard Elizabeth Hardwick 2001 Brett Ellen Block Destination Known C. Michael Curtis 2000 Adria Bernardi In the Gathering Woods Frank Conroy 1999 Lucy Honig The Truly Needy and Other Stories Charles Johnson 1998 Barbara Croft Necessary Fictions Bharati Mukherjee 1997 Katherine Vaz Fado and Other Stories George Garrett 1996 Edith Pearlman Vaquita and Other Stories Rosellen Brown 1995 Geoffrey Becker Dangerous Men Charles Baxter 1994 Jennifer Cornell Departures Alice McDermott 1993 Stewart O'Nan In The Walled City Tobias Wolff 1992 Jane McCafferty Director of the World and Other Stories John Edgar Wideman 1991 Elizabeth Graver Have You Seen Me? Richard Ford 1990 Rick Hillis Limbo River Russell Banks 1989 Maya Sonenberg Cartographies Robert Coover 1988 Reginald McKnight Moustapha's Eclipse Margaret Atwood 1987 Ellen Hunnicutt In the Music Library Nadine Gordimer 1986 Rick DeMarinis Under The Wheat Alison Lurie 1985 W. D. Wetherell The Man Who Loved Levittown Max Apple 1984 Randall Silvis The Luckiest Man in the World Joyce Carol Oates 1983 Jonathan Penner Private Parties Wright Morris 1982 Robley Wilson Dancing for Men Raymond Carver 1981 David Bosworth The Death of Descartes Robert Penn Warren References
- Wideman, John Edgar, editor (2001). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-4170-8.
External links
Categories:- American literary awards
- Awards established in 1981
- Fiction awards
- Short story awards
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