Recent Winners
Asheville Poetry Review
WILLIAM MATTHEWS POETRY PRIZE
Denver Butson of New York City won the 2020 William Matthews Poetry Prize for “Study Guide.” He received $1,000, and his poem will be published in Volume 26-27, Issue 30, of Asheville Poetry Review. He also received an invitation to give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina. Ilya Kaminsky judged. The annual award is given for a single poem. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Asheville Poetry Review, William Matthews Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 7086, Asheville, NC 28802. Keith Flynn, Managing Editor.
Beloit Poetry Journal
CHAD WALSH CHAPBOOK SERIES
Victoria C. Flanagan of Madison, Wisconsin, won the 2020 Chad Walsh Chapbook Series for Glossary of Unsaid Terms. They received $1,000, 50 author copies, and publication of their chapbook by Beloit Poetry Journal. The editors judged. The annual award is given for a poetry chapbook. (SEE DEADLINES.)
Beloit Poetry Journal, Chad Walsh Chapbook Series, P.O. Box 1450, Windham, ME 04062. Rachel Contreni Flynn, Associate Editor. bpj@bpj.org
Booker Prize Foundation
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
Fiction writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and translator Michele Hutchison of Amsterdam won the 2020 Man Booker International Prize for Hutchison’s translation from the Dutch of Rijneveld’s novel, The Discomfort of Evening (Faber & Faber). They each received £25,000 (approximately $30,375). The finalists were Shokoofeh Azar of Geelong, Australia, and an anonymous translator, for translation from the Farsi of Azar’s novel, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Europa Editions); Gabriela Cabezón Cámara of Buenos Aires and Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh, both of Edinburgh, for Macintyre and Mackintosh’s translation from the Spanish of Cabezón Cámara’s novel The Adventures of China Iron (Charco Press); Daniel Kehlmann of Vienna, Berlin, and New York City, and Ross Benjamin of Nyack, New York, for Benjamin’s translation from the German of Kehlmann’s novel Tyll (Quercus); Fernanda Melchor of Puebla, Mexico, and Sophie Hughes of Birmingham, England, for Hughes’s translation from the Spanish of Melchor’s novel Hurricane Season (Fitzcarraldo Editions); and Yoko Ogawa of Ashiya, Japan, and Stephen Snyder of Middlebury, Vermont, for Snyder’s translation from the Japanese of Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police (Harvill Secker). They each received £1,000 (approximately $1,270). Lucie Campos, Jennifer Croft, Ted Hodgkinson, Valeria Luiselli, and Jeet Thayil judged. The annual award is given for a story collection or novel translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the award year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.
Booker Prize Foundation, Man Booker International Prize, 28 St. James’s Walk, London, England EC1R 0AP.
www.themanbookerprize.com/international-booker/2020
Commonwealth Club of California
CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS
of Los Angeles won the 89th annual California Book Awards gold medal in poetry for her collection (Tin House). of Los Angeles won the (Ecco). of Los Angeles won the gold medal in first fiction for her novel, (Hogarth). of Los Angeles won the gold medal in nonfiction for his book (Riverhead Books). of Fresno, California, won the gold medal in Californiana for his book (Knopf). The annual awards are given to honor California writers for books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published during the previous year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.
