Date: 2 March 2011 (announcement of winner)
The Story Prize is pleased to honor three outstanding short story collections chosen from among eighty-five 2010 books that fifty-seven different publishers or imprints entered for the award. The three finalists are:
* Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
* Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)
* Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (W.W. Norton)
The Story Prize’s annual event will take place at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2. That night, the three finalists will read selections from their work, after which Director Larry Dark will interview each writer on-stage. At the end of the event, Founder Julie Lindsey will announce the winner and present that author with $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The two runners-up will each receive $5,000.
Yiyun Li’s native China is the setting for short stories solidly in the literary tradition of her adopted country, the U.S. A middle-aged woman who has never married traces the complex roots of her solitude. A couple that had emigrated to the U.S. returns to China to hire a surrogate mother after the death of their teenage daughter. And an aging teacher schemes to make a match of her son and a favorite pupil from the past, neither of whom has ever shown an interest in marriage.
Yiyun Li is also the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. She is a native of Beijing, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a MacArthur Foundation fellow. She has won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007, Granta named her to its Best of Young American novelists list, and in 2010, The New Yorker named her as one of its top 20 fiction writers under 40. Her work has also appeared in A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. She teaches at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland with her husband and their two sons.
Founder Julie Lindsey and Director Larry Dark selected the finalists for The Story Prize. Three other judges—bookseller Marie du Vaure, Granta editor John Freeman, and author Jayne Anne Phillips will determine the winner.
More information here.
The Story Prize is pleased to honor three outstanding short story collections chosen from among eighty-five 2010 books that fifty-seven different publishers or imprints entered for the award. The three finalists are:
* Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
* Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)
* Death Is Not an Option by Suzanne Rivecca (W.W. Norton)
The Story Prize’s annual event will take place at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York City at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2. That night, the three finalists will read selections from their work, after which Director Larry Dark will interview each writer on-stage. At the end of the event, Founder Julie Lindsey will announce the winner and present that author with $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The two runners-up will each receive $5,000.
Yiyun Li’s native China is the setting for short stories solidly in the literary tradition of her adopted country, the U.S. A middle-aged woman who has never married traces the complex roots of her solitude. A couple that had emigrated to the U.S. returns to China to hire a surrogate mother after the death of their teenage daughter. And an aging teacher schemes to make a match of her son and a favorite pupil from the past, neither of whom has ever shown an interest in marriage.
Yiyun Li is also the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. She is a native of Beijing, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a MacArthur Foundation fellow. She has won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2007, Granta named her to its Best of Young American novelists list, and in 2010, The New Yorker named her as one of its top 20 fiction writers under 40. Her work has also appeared in A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. She teaches at the University of California, Davis, and lives in Oakland with her husband and their two sons.
Founder Julie Lindsey and Director Larry Dark selected the finalists for The Story Prize. Three other judges—bookseller Marie du Vaure, Granta editor John Freeman, and author Jayne Anne Phillips will determine the winner.
More information here.
