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NEW
YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez and Booker
Prize winner Anne Enright are among eight recipients of literary
honors that include a $175,000 cash award. The Windham-Campbell
Prizes are given each year for literary achievement and to
enable writers to work independently.
Other winners announced Tuesday include legal scholar Patricia
Williams, dramatists Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini,
poets Anthony V. Capildeo and Tongo Eisen-Martin and essayist
Rana Dasgupta.
Based at Yale University, the prizes were established in 2013 by
the writer Donald Windham, who drew upon family stocks inherited
from his late friend Sandy Campbell. Previous winners include
Percival Everett, Ling Ma and Vivian Gornick.
Windham died in 2010.
“It was the late Donald Windham’s wish in establishing these
prizes to call attention to literary achievement and provide
writers with time, space and freedom,” prize director Michael
Kelleher said in a statement. "This mission remains at the heart
of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, and in today’s world it is more
vital than ever to recognize and support the crucial work and
wisdom that writers share with us all.”
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