The Windham Campbell Prizes were announced, with winners including Stanley Crouch, Helen Garner, and Hilton Als (nonfiction); Tessa Hadley, C.E. Morgan, and Jerry Pinto (fiction); and Abbie Spallen, Hannah Moscovitch, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (drama). The winners will receive their $150,000 prizes at an awards ceremony held at Yale University on September 28. PEN America also announced a number of award winners in several categories, most notably Toni Morrison receiving the Saul Bellow Prize for lifetime achievement and Lisa Ko winning the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins winning here, too, as an emerging American playwright. More winners, […]
