Norman Mailer Prize




The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony to celebrate writers and their works.[1]Norman Mailer was a 20th-century American author.



Honorees


2009[2]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Toni Morrison

  • Distinguished Journalism: David Halberstam


2010[3]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Orhan Pamuk

  • Lifetime Achievement in Magazine Publishing: Jann Wenner

  • Distinguished Journalism and Humanitarianism: Ruth Gruber


2011[4][5][6]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Elie Wiesel

  • Distinguished Writing: Arundhati Roy

  • Distinguished Journalism: Gay Talese

  • Biography: Keith Richards, Life


2012[7]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Carol Oates

  • Distinguished Publishing: Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr.

  • Biography: Robert A. Caro


2013[8]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Maya Angelou

  • Distinguished Writing: Junot Diaz

  • Distinguished Journalism: Michael Hastings


2014[9]



  • Lifetime Achievement: Don DeLillo

  • Distinguished Magazine Publishing: Katrina vanden Heuvel

  • Distinguished Poetry: Billy Collins


2015[10]


  • Lifetime Achievement: Salman Rushdie

2016


  • (no prize)


References





  1. ^ The Mailer Prize, official website.


  2. ^ Staff writer (October 21, 2009). "Literary Lights Fête Mailer". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Molly Young (October 20, 2010). "Mailer's Night". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013.


  4. ^ "Keith Richards Wins Mailer Award ", Allison Yarrow, The Daily Beast, Nov. 4, 2011.


  5. ^ "Arundhati Roy Awarded 2011 Norman Mailer Prize." India – West, December 02, 2011., A31, Newspaper Source Plus, EBSCOhost (accessed October 16, 2012).


  6. ^ "Clinton Upstaged by Keith." New York Post, Nov 10, 2011.


  7. ^ Joyce Carol Oates (October 4, 2012). "Joyce Carol Oates Salutes Norman Mailer". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013.


  8. ^ Hillel Italie (October 17, 2013). "Maya Angelou accepts Mailer Center lifetime award". Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.


  9. ^ "2014 Norman Mailer Prize recipients".


  10. ^ Rosemary Feitelberg (November 20, 2015). "Norman Mailer Center to Honor Salman Rushdie in Brooklyn at Pratt". WWD. Retrieved December 2, 2015.




External links



  • The Mailer Prize, official website.








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