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James Salter wins 2012 PEN/Malamud Award

May 23, 2012 - Alicia Dietrich

Photo of James Salter by Linda Gervin.
Photo of James Salter by Linda Gervin.

James Salter, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center, will receive the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award, which honors excellence in the art of the short story.

Salter is the author of more than a dozen books, including novels Light Years (1975), A Sport and a Pastime (1967), The Arm of Flesh (1961), and The Hunters (1957); the memoirs Gods of Tin (2004) and Burning the Days (1997); and the short story collection Dusk and Other Stories (1988), which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award.

His latest novel, All That Is, will be published in October.

Other Ransom Center authors who have received the PEN/Malamud Award include T. C. Boyle and Andre Dubus.

Salter will be presented the award on December 7. The award was established by the family of Bernard Malamud, whose archive also resides at the Ransom Center.

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: A Sport and a Pastime, All That Is, Andrew Dubus, Bernard Malamud, Burning the Days, Dusk and Other Stories, giveaway, Gods of Tin, James Salter, Light Years, PEN/Faulkner Award, PEN/Malamud Award, T. C. Boyle, The Arm of Flesh, The Hunters

Three Ransom Center authors announced as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award

February 22, 2012 - Kelsey McKinney

Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Authors Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, and Anita Desai were selected as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.  The Ransom Center holds the archives of Banks, Delillo, and Desai.

Banks was nominated for his twelfth novel Lost Memory of Skin, DeLillo was nominated for his collection of short stories The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, and Desai was nominated for The Artist of Disappearance, a collection of three novellas.

DeLillo was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award in 1991 for his novel Mao II (1991). Banks was previously nominated for Affliction (1990) and Cloudsplitter (1999). This is the first nomination for Desai.

The winner of the 2012 PEN/Faulkner award will be announced on May 5, 2012.

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Anita Desai, Authors, Books, Don DeLillo, giveaway, literature, Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, The Artist of Disappearance

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