The Lannan Foundation announced its 2008 literary awards and fellowships:
Literary Award
August Kleinzahler, Poetry
Two-Year Literary Fellowships
Charles D’Ambrosio, Fiction
Katie Ford, Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry
Glenn Patterson, Fiction
Notable Book Awards
Black Mass, by John Gray
Living with Darwin, by Philip Kitcher
Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon S. Wolin
Separately, James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton were both named Grand Masters of the genre by the Mystery Writers of America.