Tag: Jesmyn Ward
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Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025: First Selection Announced
The first selection for Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 was announced on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, featuring authors Jesmyn Ward, Matthieu Niango, and Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin. The prize, which includes a €5,000 award, honors an author—French or foreign—whose work questions modern methods of fighting oppression or represents an act of resistance itself. It was…
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Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2026 finalists announced
Safia Elhillo and Jesmyn Ward are among the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2026 finalists announced on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature is awarded to a living…
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Jesmyn Ward on Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025 shortlist
Jesmyn Ward is on the Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025 shortlist announced in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Internationaler Literaturpreis (English: International Literature Award) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time. It has been awarded annually by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation “Elementarteilchen”…
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Jesmyn Ward wins Library of Congress fiction prize 2022
Jesmyn Ward was announced the winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction on Thursday, June 30, 2022. The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction honours an American literary writer whose body of work is distinguished not only for its mastery of the art but also for its originality of thought and…