St. Louis Literary Award
The St. Louis Literary Award has been presented yearly since 1967 to a distinguished figure in literature. It is sponsored by the Saint Louis University Library Associates.
Winners
Past Recipients of the Award:[1]
- 2025 Colson Whitehead
- 2024 Jamaica Kincaid
- 2023 Neil Gaiman[2]
- 2022 Arundhati Roy[3]
- 2021 Zadie Smith[4][3]
- 2020 Michael Chabon[3]
- 2019 Edwidge Danticat[3]
- 2018 Stephen Sondheim[3]
- 2017 Margaret Atwood[3]
- 2016 Michael Ondaatje[5][3]
- 2015 David Grossman[6][3]
- 2014 Jeanette Winterson[7][8][3]
- 2013 [no award][3]
- 2012 Tony Kushner[3]
- 2011 Mario Vargas Llosa[3]
- 2010 Don DeLillo[3]
- 2009 Sir Salman Rushdie[3]
- 2008 E. L. Doctorow[3]
- 2007 William H. Gass[3]
- 2006 Michael Frayn[3]
- 2005 Richard Ford[3]
- 2004 Garry Wills[3]
- 2003 Margaret Drabble[3]
- 2002 Joan Didion[3]
- 2001 Simon Schama[3]
- 2000 N. Scott Momaday[3]
- 1999 Chinua Achebe[3]
- 1998 Seamus Heaney[3]
- 1997 Stephen E. Ambrose[3]
- 1996 Antonia Fraser[3]
- 1995 Edward Albee[3]
- 1994 Stephen Jay Gould[3]
- 1993 David McCullough[3]
- 1992 Shelby Foote[3]
- 1991 August Wilson[3]
- 1990 Tom Wolfe[3]
- 1989 Richard Wilbur[3]
- 1988 Joyce Carol Oates[3]
- 1987 John Updike[3]
- 1986 Saul Bellow[3]
- 1985 Walker Percy[3]
- 1984 [no award][3]
- 1983 Eudora Welty[3]
- 1982 William Styron[3]
- 1981 James A. Michener[3]
- 1980 Arthur Miller[3]
- 1979 Howard Nemerov[3]
- 1978 Mortimer J. Adler[3]
- 1977 Robert Penn Warren[3]
- 1976 R. Buckminster Fuller[3]
- 1975 John Hope Franklin[3]
- 1974 Tennessee Williams[3]
- 1973 James T. Farrell[3]
- 1972 Francis Warner[3]
- 1971 Barbara Tuchman[3]
- 1970 W. H. Auden[3]
- 1969 George Plimpton[3]
- 1968 Jacques Barzun[3]
- 1967 Henry Steele Commager[3]
References
- ^ "Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award". Archived from the original on April 30, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ ""Neil Gaiman to Receive the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award"". slu.edu. Saint Louis University. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd "St. Louis Literary Award". slu.edu. Saint Louis University. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ Maggie Rotermund (May 2, 2016). "Zadie Smith to Receive 2021 St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis University. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
- ^ Jane Henderson (May 2, 2016). "Ondaatje wins St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Robert H. Cohn (October 7, 2015). "Acclaimed Israeli author wins St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis Jewish Light. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ "Saint Louis University Libraries". lib.slu.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
- ^ Cooperman, Jeannette (16 September 2014). "A Conversation With Jeanette Winterson". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 2019-01-12.