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30-426: (Redirected from Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize ) Annual literary prize for fiction and nonfiction books about heartland American The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the newspaper The Chicago Tribune . It is awarded yearly in two categories: Fiction and Nonfiction . These prizes are awarded to books that "reinforce and perpetuate

60-530: A corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize ). 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 );

90-711: A Prince 1997: Charles Frazier , for Cold Mountain 1996: Antonya Nelson , for Talking in Bed 1995: William Maxwell , for All The Days and Nights 1994: Maxine Clair , for Rattlebone 1993: Annie Proulx , for The Shipping News 1992: Jane Smiley , for A Thousand Acres 1991: Kaye Gibbons , for A Cure For Dreams 1990: Tim O'Brien , for The Things They Carried 1989: Ward Just , for Jack Gance 1988: Eric Larsen, for An American Memory Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Nonfiction [ edit ] 2019: Sarah Smarsh , for Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in

120-465: A memoir, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home , about his war experiences. In this memoir, O'Brien writes: "Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories." As of 2010 O'Brien lived in central Texas, raising a family and teaching full-time every other year at Texas State University–San Marcos . In alternate years, he teaches several workshops to MFA students in

150-569: A resonant Heartland Prize winner" . Chicago Tribune . ^ Taylor, Elizabeth (23 October 2014). " 'Men We Reaped' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 April 2015 . ^ "Thomas Dyja's 'The Third Coast' awarded nonfiction Heartland Prize - Chicago Tribune" . Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. ^ "Chicago Humanities Festival | 2011 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners | Jonathan Franzen | Isabel Wilkerson" . www.chicagohumanities.org . Archived from

180-493: A self-conscious or metafictional narrative voice. By the same token, certain sets of stories in The Things They Carried seem to contradict each other, and certain stories are designed to "undo" the suspension of disbelief created in previous stories. For example, "Speaking of Courage" is followed by "Notes", which explains in what ways "Speaking of Courage" is fictional. This is another example of how O’Brien blurs

210-526: Is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War . Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans. O'Brien is perhaps best known for his book The Things They Carried (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by his wartime experiences. In 2010, The New York Times described it as "a classic of contemporary war fiction." O'Brien wrote

240-408: Is different from Wikidata Literary prize 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

270-415: Is sometimes truer than happening-truth." O’Brien suggests that story truth is emotional truth. In turn, the emotions created by a fictional story are sometimes truer than what results from only reading the facts. This demonstrates one aspect of O’Brien's writing style: a blurring of the usual distinction we make between fiction and reality, in that the author uses details from his own life, but frames them in

300-567: The Bookseller /Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year , and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests , given to deliberately bad grammar There are also literary awards targeted specifically to encourage the writing from African American origin and authors of African descent. Two of these awards are Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence , which was established in 2007 by

330-721: The Baton Rouge Area Foundation , and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award , which is a given by the National Community of Black Writers. Australian author Richard Flanagan wrote a critique of literary awards, saying "National prizes are often a barometer of bourgeois bad taste." He says juries can be influenced by vendettas, paybacks and payoffs, "most judges are fair-minded people. But hate, conceit and jealousy are no less human attributes than wisdom, judgment and knowledge." Book prizes will sometimes compete with one another, and these goals do not always coincide with anointing

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360-1054: The Camões Prize ( Portuguese ); the Booker Prize , The Writers' Prize , the Pulitzer Prize and the Hugo Award ( English ). Other international literary prizes include the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Franz Kafka Prize , and the Jerusalem Prize . The International Dublin Literary Award is given to writers, as well as to the translator(s) if the book chosen was written in a language other than English. Spoof awards include: The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award ,

390-558: The war novel , Going After Cacciato (1978), which was awarded the National Book Award . O'Brien taught creative writing, holding the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other academic year from 2003 to 2012. Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1, 1946, the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava Eleanor Schultz O'Brien. When he

420-533: The American Dream 2012: Paul Hendrickson , for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 2011: Isabel Wilkerson , for The Warmth of Other Suns 2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2009: Nick Reding , for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town 2008: Garry Wills , for Head and Heart: American Christianities and What

450-656: The Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith 2001: Louis Menand , for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America 2000: Zachary Karabell , for The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election 1999: Jay Parini for Robert Frost: A Life 1998: Alex Kotlowitz , for The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America's Dilemma 1997: Thomas Lynch , for The Undertaking: Life Studies from

480-1040: The Crisis and Revolution at Sears References [ edit ] ^ "Heartland Prize" , Chicago Tribune . ^ Taylor, Elizabeth (October 11, 2019). "Rebecca Makkai's 'The Great Believers': An empathic novel worthy of the Heartland Prize" . The Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 November 2019 . ^ Johnson, Christen A. (August 23, 2018). "Ron Chernow, George Saunders and Caroline Fraser win 2018 Tribune literary prizes" . Chicago Tribune . ^ "Book awards: Heartland Prize" . LibraryThing . Retrieved 10 September 2018 . ^ Golden Age ^ Taylor, Elizabeth (24 October 2014). " 'The Maid's Version' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 April 2015 . ^ "2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize-Winners: E.O. Wilson and Rebecca Skloot | Chicago Humanities Festival" . Archived from

510-755: The Dismal Trade 1996: Jonathan Harr , for A Civil Action 1995: Richard Stern , for A Sistermony 1994: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , for Colored People: A Memoir 1993: Norman Maclean , for Young Men and Fire 1992: Melissa Fay Greene , for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction 1991: William Cronon , for Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 1990: Michael Dorris , for The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 1989: Joseph Epstein , for Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives 1988: Don Katz , for The Big Store: Inside

540-679: The Gospels Meant 2007: Orville Vernon Burton , for The Age of Lincoln 2006: Taylor Branch , for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 2005: Kevin Boyle , for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 2004: Ann Patchett , for Truth & Beauty: A Friendship 2003: Paul Hendrickson , for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy 2002: Studs Terkel , for Will

570-713: The Richest Country on Earth 2018: Caroline Fraser , for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2017: Matthew Desmond , for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 2016: Margo Jefferson , for Negroland: A Memoir 2015: Danielle Allen , for Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality 2014: Jesmyn Ward , for Men We Reaped 2013: Thomas Dyja , for The Third Coast: When Chicago Built

600-516: The area around My Lai (referred to as "Pinkville" by the U.S. forces), "we all wondered why the place was so hostile. We did not know there had been a massacre there a year earlier. The news about that only came out later, while we were there, and then we knew." Upon completing his tour of duty, O'Brien went to graduate school at Harvard University . Afterward he received an internship at the Washington Post . In 1973 he published his first book,

630-469: The best winner. Sometimes juries can not decide between two contentious books so they will compromise with a third inoffensive bland book. He says there are now so many awards and prizes it has diluted the prestige of being a prize-winning book. Flanagan clarifies he is not against literary awards, but believes they should not be taken too seriously as a form of support for literary culture. Tim O%27Brien (author) Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946)

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660-512: The creative writing program. O'Brien's papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin . In the story "Good Form," from his collection of semi-autobigraphical stories, The Things They Carried , O'Brien discusses the distinction between "story-truth" (the truth of fiction) and "happening-truth" (the truth of fact or occurrence), writing that "story-truth

690-440: The original on 2011-09-14. ^ "Chicago Humanities Festival | Menand, Simpson, and Raboteau | 2001 Chicago Tribune Heartland and Nelson Algren Prizes" . www.chicagohumanities.org . Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. ^ Day, Jennifer (October 28, 2019). "Authors Rebecca Makkai, Sarah Smarsh accept 2019 Heartland Prizes" . Chicago Tribune . ^ "Margo Jefferson memoir 'Negroland'

720-711: The original on 2012-01-03. ^ "E. O. Wilson and Rebecca Skloot: 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prizes" . chicagohumanities.org . 2011. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013 . Retrieved May 3, 2016 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heartland_Prize&oldid=1245100152 " Categories : 1988 establishments in Illinois American fiction awards American non-fiction literary awards Awards established in 1988 Chicago Tribune Literary awards by magazines and newspapers Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

750-567: The original on 2013-11-05 . Retrieved 2011-02-04 . ^ "Chicago Humanities Festival | 2009 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners" . www.chicagohumanities.org . Archived from the original on 2011-05-05. ^ "Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners 2008" . www.chicagohumanities.org . Archived from the original on 2011-09-08. ^ "Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006: Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich" . www.chicagohumanities.org . Archived from

780-509: The traditional distinctions we make between fact and fiction. While O'Brien does not consider himself a spokesman for the Vietnam War, he has occasionally commented on it. Speaking years later about his upbringing and the war, O'Brien described his hometown as "a town that congratulates itself, day after day, on its own ignorance of the world: a town that got us into Vietnam. Uh, the people in that town sent me to that war, you know, couldn't spell

810-1293: The values of heartland America." Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Fiction [ edit ] 2019: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers 2018: George Saunders , for Lincoln in the Bardo 2017: Colson Whitehead , for The Underground Railroad 2016: Jane Smiley , for Golden Age 2015: Chang-rae Lee , for On Such a Full Sea 2014: Daniel Woodrell , for The Maid's Version 2013: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , for Americanah 2012: Richard Ford , for Canada 2011: Jonathan Franzen , for Freedom 2010: E. O. Wilson , for Anthill 2009: Jayne Anne Phillips , for Lark and Termite 2008: Aleksandar Hemon , for The Lazarus Project 2007: Robert Olmstead , for Coal Black Horse 2006: Louise Erdrich , for The Painted Drum 2005: Marilynne Robinson , for Gilead 2004: Ward Just , for An Unfinished Season 2003: Scott Turow , for Reversible Errors 2002: Alice Sebold , for The Lovely Bones 2001: Mona Simpson , for Off Keck Road 2000: Jeffery Renard Allen , for Rails Under My Back 1999: Elizabeth Strout , for Amy and Isabelle 1998: Jane Hamilton , for The Short History of

840-607: The word ' Hanoi ' if you spotted them three vowels." Contrasting the continuing American search for U.S. MIA/POWs in Vietnam with the reality of the high number of Vietnamese war dead, he describes the American perspective as A perverse and outrageous double standard. What if things were reversed? What if the Vietnamese were to ask us, or to require us, to locate and identify each of their own MIAs? Numbers alone make it impossible: 100,000

870-589: Was student body president. That same year he was drafted into the United States Army and was sent to Vietnam , where he served from 1969 to 1970 in 3rd Platoon, Company A, 5th Battalion, 46th Infantry Regiment , part of the 23rd Infantry Division (the Americal Division) that contained the unit that perpetrated the My Lai Massacre the year before his arrival. O'Brien has said that when his unit got to

900-519: Was ten, his family – including a younger brother and sister – moved to Worthington, Minnesota . Worthington had a large influence on O’Brien's imagination and his early development as an author. The town is on Lake Okabena in the southwestern part of the state and serves as the setting for some of his stories, especially those in The Things They Carried . O'Brien earned his BA in 1968 in political science from Macalester College , where he

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