[New-Poetry] Stevenson wins Lannan

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Arts, Briefly 
Poet Wins $200,000 

By THE NEW YORK  TIMES
Published: November 8, 2007
 
The American lyric poet Anne Stevenson, 74, who has lived in Britain for  
more than 40 years, was named the winner yesterday of the $200,000 lifetime  
achievement award of the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, N.M. Awards of $150,000  
each were made in fiction to A. L. Kennedy of Scotland and Susan Straight of  
Riverside, Calif., and in nonfiction to Mike Davis of San Diego. Writing  
fellowships totaling $550,000 went to Paula Gunn Allen of Fort Bragg, Calif.;  
Daniel Alarcón of Oakland, Calif.; Edie Meidav of Rhinebeck, N.Y.; Dinaw  Mengestu 
and Jeremy Scahill of Brooklyn and Sinead Morrissey of Belfast,  Northern 
Ireland. The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in  1989 to 
honor established and emerging writers of work of exceptional quality.  ... “
Late Nights on Air,” the third novel by Elizabeth Hay, 56, a former radio  
broadcaster in Canada, won the $43,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the most  
lucrative Canadian prize for fiction, Reuters reported. The novel, about loves  and 
rivalries at a small radio station in Yellowknife, in the Northwest  Territories 
of Canada near the Arctic, beat shortlist competition that included  “
Divisadero,” by Michael Ondaatje.
 
 



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