For those of you who love to nurture first-timers, here are the new PEN/Hemingway honorees for debut fiction. Colm Toibin, an early Powers booster, will give the keynote address at the March 24 ceremony at the JFK Library in Cambridge.
Winner:
- Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds [Kindle]
Finalists:
- Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
[Kindle]
- Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan
[Kindle]
Honorable Mentions:
- Catherine Chung, Forgotten Country
[Kindle]
- Peter Wheelwright, As It Is On Earth
[Kindle]
The winner tells "the" great war story, which is such an uphill challenge, that it is heartening to believe he has brought it off. Thanks for the reminder of a text I've neglected - and for the introduction to things I didn't know about.
Posted by: Laurent | March 05, 2013 at 02:48 PM