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> On Mar 3, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * > فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > > Only after reading this report did I think of doing a dollar-to-rupee > conversion. Turns out that Goanetter Jerry Pinto becomes the first Goan > writer to get an award worth over a crore of rupees (though the taxman is > not figured into this calculation)! > > See more about the award here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham%E2%80%93Campbell_Literature_Prizes > It is among the richest literary prizes in the world. > > Congrats Jerry! > > On the negative side, like JK Rowling and a handful of others, Jerry will > probably always be pointed to as an example of what writers can earn, > specially when the many complaints from the mostly starving (or feeling > deprived) writers come up :-) > > Btw, Jerry was the speaker of the Goa Book Club sometime in 2011! > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLpeDkKRmg > [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98SBljMQpvw > [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNl_MviVhc > > and > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wasQBDxn34U > > FN > > * * * > > For some winners, getting the $150,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes was > literally unbelievable > Michael Schaub > Yale University just made nine writers a lot happier and richer — even if > they didn't believe the call at first. > > The college announced the winners of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Prizes, a > young literary award that named its first recipients in 2013. The awards, > presented for fiction, nonfiction and drama, come with a $150,000 payment, > making them one of the richest literary prizes in the world. > > Familiar names among this year's winners include critic and biographer > Stanley Crouch ("Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie > Parker") and journalist and essayist Hilton Als ("White Girls"). > > But the prizes are especially important for emerging and lesser-known > writers, not just because of the large payout, but the publicity it assures > them. And some of them could hardly believe it when they were notified of > their win. > > That includes Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch, who initially thought > she was being targeted by a swindler. "I thought it was 'Congratulations, > you've won a cruise to Florida if you pay $200,'" Moscovitch told the Globe > and Mail. "I nearly didn’t listen to the actual voicemail." > > Good news: Some missing Hong Kong booksellers have appeared on TV. But > there's bad news. > Good news: Some missing Hong Kong booksellers have appeared on TV. But > there's bad news. > Another winner, Irish playwright Abbie Spallen, had the same experience. "I > thought it was a scam at first," she told the Irish Times. > > Australian writer Helen Garner, who received an award for nonfiction, > almost missed the notification of her win entirely. The Sydney Morning > Herald reports that the email from Yale asking for her phone number landed > in her spam folder. > > Other winners this year include playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and > fiction writers Tessa Hadley and Jerry Pinto, as well as C. E. Morgan, > whose new novel "The Sport of Kings" comes out in May. > > The Windham-Campbell Prizes are awarded by the Beinecke Rare Book & > Manuscript Library at Yale. The prize money comes from the estate of the > late author Donald Windham and his life partner, Sandy M. Campbell. > > Nine writers are honored each year — three in fiction, three in nonfiction > and three in drama. Poetry will be added to the prizes next year. > > The awards lend themselves to surprise. There's no submission process for > the anonymously judged prizes, so writers don't know they're being > considered until they receive a congratulatory phone call from the > program's director, Michael Kelleher. > > Kelleher seems to relish his job. On Twitter, he posted, "Best part of my > job @WindhamCampbell is calling 9 unsuspecting writers out of the blue > [with] news they've won $150,000. I feel like [Ed] McMahon." > > Of course, the winners are pretty happy themselves. "I only wish everyone > alive could get a phone call like the one I just received," Jacobs-Jenkins > said. "I've never ever felt this confident, joyful, relieved or encouraged > on a Wednesday morning." > > Copyright © 2016, Los Angeles Times > http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nine-authors-awarded-150-000- > windham-campbell-prizes-20160301-story.html > > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha > _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
