Edward Lewis Wallant Award Explained

The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews.[1] It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.

The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.

Awards

Award winners[2] !Year!Author!Title!
1963Coat Upon a Stick[3]
1964Leah
1965
1966Home Is Where You Start From
1967
1968No award
1969Waiting for the News
1970No award
1971
1972Somewhere Else
1973In the Days of Simon Stern
1974Anya
1975Growing Up Rich
1976No award
1977
1978No award
1979No award
1980O My America!
1981Kagan's Superfecta
1982No award
1983Hungry Hearts
1984No award
1985Before My Life Began
1986Enchantment
1987Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven
1988Master of the Return
1989
1990No award
1991No award
1992Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
1993From Hunger
1994No award
1995Mazel
1996Elijah Visible
1997
1998No award
1999Kaaterskill Falls
2000If I Told You Once
2001Bee Season
2002In the Image
2003[4]
2004Joy Comes in the Morning
2005
2006No award
2007Bearing the Body
2008In the Mouth[5]
2009Pictures at an Exhibition
2010
2011Binocular Vision
2012[6]
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017Underground Fugue[7]
2018Mourning[8]
2019Maggie Brown & Others
2020[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edward Lewis Wallant Award (University of Hartford) . 2024-04-24 . . en-US . 2023-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230925033504/https://americanwritersmuseum.org/award/edward-lewis-wallant-award-university-of-hartford/ . live .
  2. Web site: Edward Lewis Wallant Award . 2024-04-24 . . en . 2019-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191229033704/https://www.hartford.edu/academics/schools-colleges/arts-sciences/academics/departments-and-centers/greenberg-center-for-judaic-studies/edward-Lewis-Wallant-award.aspx . live .
  3. Web site: Pinsker . Sanford . 2003-03-21 . Wallant Worthies Are Instantly Recognizable . 2024-04-24 . . en . 2023-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230205100831/https://forward.com/news/9512/wallant-worthies-are-instantly-recognizable/ . live .
  4. Web site: 2004-06-03 . Leegant wins distinguished writing awards . 2024-04-24 . . en-US . 2023-11-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231130072402/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/06/leegant-wins-distinguished-writing-awards/ . live .
  5. News: 2014-12-25 . Bezmozgis wins Wallant Award for 'The Betrayers' . 2024-04-24 . . en.
  6. Web site: 2013-04-12 . Awards: IACP; Edward Lewis Wallant; Walt Whitman; Griffin . 2024-04-24 . . 2022-08-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220811164738/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1970 . live .
  7. Web site: 2018-02-15 . Awards: Wallant Winner; Sunday Times EFG Short Story; PEN/Barber Freedom to Write . 2024-04-23 . . 2023-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230817194644/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4048#m53416 . live .
  8. Web site: Bolton-Fasman . Judy . 2019-04-09 . Novelist Eduardo Halfon Wins Edward Lewis Wallant Award . 2024-04-24 . Jewish Boston . en-US . 2023-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230130180713/https://www.jewishboston.com/read/novelist-eduardo-halfon-wins-edward-lewis-wallant-award/ . live .
  9. Web site: Klaps . Inge . 2021-01-20 . Lee Conell (MFA '15) is 2020 Wallant Award recipient . 2024-04-24 . . en . 2021-09-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928051054/https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/lee-conell-mfa-15-is-2020-wallant-award-recipient/ . live .

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