Lannan Literary Award

The Lannan Literary Award was started in 1989 to recognize both new and established writers of the highest caliber. It is sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, a private family foundation dedicated to promoting cultural freedom, diversity and creativity.

Click here for a list of winners from 1989 to the present. The award honors fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Past honorees include Jamaica Kincaid and David Foster Wallace.

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