[LM_NET] SHARE: 2008 Saroyan International Prize for Writing

[Ken Umbach <ken@UMBACHCONSULTING.COM>]

Hi . . .

Kiyo Sato's memoir Dandelion Through the Crack is the nonfiction winner of 
the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. The award was 
given out at a festive celebration of Saroyan's centenary at Stanford 
University yesterday. Here is part of the the announcement:

>Stanford Report, September 5, 2008
>
>Authors Nicole Krauss, Kiyo Sato win 2008 Saroyan Prize
>
>
>
>Two very different female writers are this year's recipients of the third 
>William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (also known as the Saroyan 
>Prize). Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with the William 
>Saroyan Foundation, announced the winners during a ceremony today at Stanford.
>
>This year's award honors an acclaimed 30-something New Yorker and an 
>octogenarian Californian. Nicole Krauss, a Stanford alumna, has been 
>awarded the fiction prize for The History of Love. Kiyo Sato has won the 
>nonfiction prize for Dandelion Through the Crack, her first book. Each 
>will receive $12,500.

See 
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/saroyan-091008.html 
for the full announcement.

I take considerable pleasure in having helped to help Dandelion get to 
publication by a regional small press after I read it in manuscript three 
and a half years ago. It had  been rejected by a series of publishers and 
was in a sort of literary limbo. Some might recall that I have posted 
previously about this book and that I wrote a lengthy review of it for 
Knowledge Quest's Web edition last fall. Now all of the work over the years 
is amply justified.

Ken

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