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Oxford critic Malcolm Bowie wins $50,000 Capote Award
The Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
The $50,000 prize will be awarded in a free, public ceremony at 4 p.m., April 28, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol. The event will include a brief address by Bowie, who is the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and Director of the European Humanities Research Centre.
The book was selected for the Capote Award by an international panel of prominent critics and writers—Peter Sacks, John Kerrigan, K. Anthony Appiah, Richard Poirier, J.M. Coetzee, and Michael Wood.
The panelists’ choices were reviewed and confirmed by the award’s administrative committee: Frank Conroy, director of the UI Writers’ Workshop; longtime workshop faculty member Jorie Graham, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and fiction writer, philosopher, and critic William Gass, head of the International Writing Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
The establishment of the Truman Capote Literary Trust was stipulated in the author’s will, and the Annual Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin reflects Capote’s frequently expressed concern for the health of literary criticism in the English language. The awards are designed to reward and encourage excellence in the field.
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by Winston Barclay