American Academy of Arts & Letters Awards, New Members

Lots of gay or gay-friendly giants among this year's American Academy of Arts and Letters honorees. 

 

New Foreign Honorary Members: Colm Toibin!! Haruki Murakami! John Banville!

New Members in Literature: Ha Jin, Wendell Berry, Tobias Wolff, Denis Johnson

 

Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction ($5,000): The Miniature Wife, Manuel Gonzales

Benjamin Danks Award ($20,000): Yiyun Li

Harold Vursell Award ($20,000): Daniel Mendelsohn

Katherine Anne Porter Award ($20,000): Sherman Alexie

E.M. Forster Award** ($20,000): Sarah Hall

Blake Dodd Prize ($25,000): Alexander Stille

Rosenthal Family Award ($10,000): The Isle of Youth, Laura van den Berg

Rome Fellowships: Krys Lee and Liz Moore

See the full list here. Or, for awards in Art, Architecture, and Music click here.

**E.M. Forster delayed publication of his gay love story Maurice until after his death, bequeathing the royalties and rights to out Christopher Isherwood who in turn bequeathed them to the Academy to fund the E.M. Forster Award for a young writer from the UK or Ireland to spend time in the U.S.