The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. [1] It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.
The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.
Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1963 | Norman Fruchter | Coat Upon a Stick | [3] |
1964 | Seymour Epstein | Leah | |
1965 | Hugh Nissenson | A Pile of Stones | |
1966 | Gene Hurwitz | Home Is Where You Start From | |
1967 | Chaim Potok | The Chosen | |
1968 | No award | ||
1969 | Leo Litwak | Waiting for the News | |
1970 | No award | ||
1971 | Cynthia Ozick | The Pagan Rabbi | |
1972 | Robert Kotlowitz | Somewhere Else | |
1973 | Arthur A. Cohen | In the Days of Simon Stern | |
1974 | Susan Fromberg Schaeffer | Anya | |
1975 | Anne Bernays | Growing Up Rich | |
1976 | No award | ||
1977 | Curt Leviant | The Yemenite Girl | |
1978 | No award | ||
1979 | No award | ||
1980 | Johanna Kaplan | O My America! | |
1981 | Allen Hoffman | Kagan's Superfecta | |
1982 | No award | ||
1983 | Francine Prose | Hungry Hearts | |
1984 | No award | ||
1985 | Jay Neugeboren | Before My Life Began | |
1986 | Daphne Merkin | Enchantment | |
1987 | Steve Stern | Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven | |
1988 | Tova Reich | Master of the Return | |
1989 | Jerome Badanes | The Final Opus of Leon Solomon | |
1990 | No award | ||
1991 | No award | ||
1992 | Melvin Jules Bukiet | Stories of an Imaginary Childhood | |
1993 | Gerald Shapiro | From Hunger | |
1994 | No award | ||
1995 | Rebecca Goldstein | Mazel | |
1996 | Thane Rosenbaum | Elijah Visible | |
1997 | Harvey Grossinger | The Quarry | |
1998 | No award | ||
1999 | Allegra Goodman | Kaaterskill Falls | |
2000 | Judy Budnitz | If I Told You Once | |
2001 | Myla Goldberg | Bee Season | |
2002 | Dara Horn | In the Image | [3] |
2003 | Joan Leegant | An Hour in Paradise | [4] |
2004 | Jonathan Rosen | Joy Comes in the Morning | |
2005 | Nicole Krauss | The History of Love | |
2006 | No award | ||
2007 | Ehud Havazelet | Bearing the Body | |
2008 | Eileen Pollack | In the Mouth | [5] |
2009 | Sara Houghteling | Pictures at an Exhibition | |
2010 | Julie Orringer | The Invisible Bridge | |
2011 | Edith Pearlman | Binocular Vision | |
2012 | Joshua Henkin | The World Without You | [5] [6] |
2013 | Kenneth Bonert | The Lion Seeker | |
2014 | David Bezmozgis | The Betrayers | [5] |
2015 | Rebecca Dinerstein | The Sunlit Night | |
2016 | Ayelet Tsabari | The Best Place on Earth | |
2017 | Margot Singer | Underground Fugue | [7] |
2018 | Eduardo Halfon | Mourning | [8] |
2019 | Peter Orner | Maggie Brown & Others | |
2020 | Lee Conell | The Party Upstairs | [9] |