William Saroyan International Prize for Writing2016

Given by William Saroyan Foundation

Other Names: William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Finalist, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Shortlist
28 Works 2,544 Books 151 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation jointly award the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, a biennial competition for newly-published books. The prize show more commemorates the life, legacy and intentions of William Saroyan - author, artist, dramatist, composer - and is intended to encourage new or emerging writers, rather than to recognize established literary figures. show less
Stages:
All, Finalist (30), Shortlist (139), No Stage (19)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2022 (2), 2020 (28), 2018 (29), 2016 (28), 2014 (30), 2012 (26), 2010 (29), 2008 (6), 2005 (7), 2003 (3)

Finalist 4

WorkCategoryYear
Now We Will Be Happy (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) by Amina GautierFiction2016
Counternarratives by John KeeneFiction2016
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir by Elena GorokhovaNonfiction2016
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan SouthardNonfiction2016

Shortlist 22

WorkCategoryYear
Faint Promise of Rain by Anjali Mitter DuvaFiction2016
Chase Us: Stories by Sean EnnisFiction2016
A Village in the Fields, A Novel by Patty EnradoFiction2016
'Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-SharmaFiction2016
Ghost Horse by Thomas H. McNeelyFiction2016
A Hero by Charlotte R. MendelFiction2016
Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel by Christina NicholFiction2016
The Given World: A Novel by Marian PalaiaFiction2016
Backlands: A Novel by Victoria ShorrFiction2016
Better than war by Siamak VossoughiFiction2016
Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy BullNonfiction2016
The Four Words for Home by Angie ChuangNonfiction2016
Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging by Joshua DolezalNonfiction2016
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War by David HaltonNonfiction2016
Bettyville: A Memoir by George HodgmanNonfiction2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne JrNonfiction2016
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War by Rohini MohanNonfiction2016
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade by Barbara Rylko-BauerNonfiction2016
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret SavoyNonfiction2016
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Meline ToumaniNonfiction2016
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan TrebincevicNonfiction2016
Crossing the Line: A Marriage across Borders by Linda ValdezNonfiction2016

No Stage 2

WorkCategoryYear
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori JakielaNonfiction winner2016
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson2016

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