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Ferro-Grumley Award
The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBT fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley. It was co-founded in 1988 by Stephen Greco who continues to direct it as of 2022. First awarded in 1990, separate awards were presented for gay and lesbian fiction until 2008 when the awards were merged into a single award. On two occasions, the award has been won by works that were not conventional literary fiction. In 1994, journalist John Berendt won the award for his non-fiction novel '' Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'', and in 2009, cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the award for her comic strip anthology '' The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For''. Awards Gay male fiction * 1990 — Dennis Cooper, ''Closer'' * 1991 — Allen Barnett, ''The Body and Its Dangers'' * 1992 — Melvin Dixon, ''Vanishing Rooms'' * 1993 — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish), the Camões Prize ( Portuguese) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Swim, Two Boys
''At Swim, Two Boys'' (2001) is a novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill. The title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien's ''At Swim-Two-Birds''. The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style, which has led to favourable comparisons to James Joyce. Ten years after publication, Alison Walsh, reviewing the year 2001 for the '' Sunday Independent'', called it "a vintage one in Irish writing", specifically naming the "unforgettable" ''At Swim, Two Boys'' alongside books by Dermot Bolger, Eoin Colfer and Nuala O'Faolain. Terry Pender commented on ''At Swim, Two Boys'': "With only this work O'Neill can take his rightful place among the great Irish writers beginning with Joyce and ending with Roddy Doyle". Plot summary Set in Dublin before and during the 1916 Easter Rising, ''At Swim, Two Boys'' tells the love story of two young Irish men: Jim Mack and Doyler Doyle. Jim goes to school on a scholarship (for which he is looked down upon) – he is quiet, studious, thoughtful, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie O'Neill
Jamie O'Neill (born 1 January 1962) is an Irish author. His critically acclaimed novel, '' At Swim, Two Boys'' (2001), earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent praise as the natural successor to James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. He is currently living in Gortachalla in County Galway, having previously lived and worked in England for two decades. O'Neill's work follows the imaginative route in Irish literature, unlike his realist contemporaries such as Colm Tóibín or John McGahern. Terry Pender commented on ''At Swim, Two Boys'': "With only this work O'Neill can take his rightful place among the great Irish writers beginning with Joyce and ending with Roddy Doyle". Background and education O'Neill was born in Dún Laoghaire in 1962 the youngest of four children and was educated at Presentation College, Glasthule, County Dublin, run by the Presentation Brothers, and (in his words) "the city streets of London, the beaches of Greece." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is an American writer, editor, and teacher. His debut novel, '' The Danish Girl'', was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2015, while his third novel, '' The 19th Wife'', was adapted into a television movie of the same name in 2010. Writing career Ebershoff published his first novel, ''The Danish Girl'', in 2000. It is inspired by the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to have gender reassignment surgery. The novel won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award and an American Library Association Award, and a '' New York Times Notable Book of the Year.'' An international bestseller, it has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. In 2015, producer Gail Mutrux adapted the novel into an Oscar-winning film also called ''The Danish Girl'', directed by Tom H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993. White's books include '' The Joy of Gay Sex'', written with Charles Silverstein (1977); his trilogy of semi-autobiographic novels, '' A Boy's Own Story'' (1982), ''The Beautiful Room Is Empty'' (1988) and ''The Farewell Symphony'' (1997); and his biography of Jean Genet. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. White has also written biographies of three French writers: Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He is the namesake of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, awarded annually by Publishing Triangle. Early life and education Edmund Valentine White mostly grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as a boy. Afterward, he stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coming Storm
''The Coming Storm'' is a 1999 novel by Paul Russell. ''The Coming Storm'' (the book), Paul Russell, 2000, 384 pages, , pp. 125, 350; web: BooksG-EC ''The Coming Storm'' is set on the campus of a boys' University-preparatory school in upstate New York. Tracy Parker, a 25-year-old, is hired as an English teacher by the headmaster Louis Tremper. Tracy has a sexual relationship with a troubled 15-year-old student. The novel touches on the transience of youth, the challenges of illegal or unconventional love, and the tragedy of sexual obsession. Plot The story is told from the alternating perspective of four characters: Louis Tremper, the headmaster of a boy's prep school in upstate New York; his wife, Claire Tremper; Tracy Parker, the school's new 25-year-old English teacher; and Noah Lathrop III, a 15-year-old student struggling with his own sexuality. "The Coming Storm , Paul Russell , Macmillan", macmillan.com, 2010, webpage: Mac-CS Headmaster Loui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Russell (novelist)
Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for '' The Coming Storm'' and in 2012 for ''The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov''. ''The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov'' is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person - Sergey Nabokov, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known. Russell grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where his father Jack was a mathematics professor at Southwestern at Memphis. He studied at Oberlin College and Cornell University. He is a professor of English literature at Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely fol .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hours (novel)
''The Hours'' is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Plot introduction The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ''Mrs Dalloway''. In 1923 Richmond, outside London, author Virginia Woolf is writing ''Mrs Dalloway'' and struggling with her mental illness. In 1949 Los Angeles, Laura Brown is reading ''Mrs Dalloway'' while planning a birthday party for her husband, a World War II veteran. In 1999 New York City, Clarissa Vaughan plans a party to celebrate a major literary award received by her good friend and former lover, the poet Richard, who is dying of an AIDS-related illness. The situations of all three characters mirror situations experienced by Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway in ''Mrs Dalloway'', with Clarissa Vaughan being a ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel '' The Hours'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. Early life and education Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University, where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and the ''Paris Review''. His short story "White Angel" was later used as a chapter in his novel ''A Home at the End of the World''. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989", published by Houghton Mifflin. In 1993, Cunningham received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of The Night
''The Story of the Night'' is a Bildungsroman by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. The novel interweaves the personal story of Richard Garay, a gay Argentinian man with an English mother, and the political history of Argentina through the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Told entirely in the first person, the novel presents a wholly convincing picture of a character who could almost be described as an anti-hero, and who distills not just the Argentinian but the global late 20th century mix of sexual and economic "freedoms" in a single life: a "story of the night" lights otherwise shadowy places. Toibín's third novel, it was his first to feature a gay character. Plot The novel is split into three parts across various settings in Argentina and in Barcelona, and takes place in both domestic and public spaces. ;Part One The Story of the Night opens with a discussion of Richard's mother – her patriotism towards England before her death, and how Richard imagines she would have re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. '' The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. '' The Master'' (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award, securing for Toíbín a bounty of thousands of euro as it is one of the richest literary awards in the world. ''Nora Webster'' won the Hawthornden Prize, whilst ''The Magician'' (a fictionalised version of the life of Thomas Mann) won the Folio Prize. His fellow artists elected him to Aosdána and he won the "UK and Ireland Nobel" David Cohen Prize in 2021. He succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017. He is now Irene and Sidney B. Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
