BRIEF: SAROYAN AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Stanford Daily
September 23, 2008
CA
Stanford University Libraries recently announced the winners of its
biennial Saroyan Writing Prize.
The award for fiction went to Stanford alumna Nicole Krauss ’96 MA ’96
for her novel, The History of Love. The plot involves the intersections
between the lives of two unusual characters over a span of 60 years.
Kiyo Sato received the non-fiction award for her memoir, Dandelion
Through the Crack. The book chronicles her family’s struggles through
the Depression, wartime emergency, life in an Arizona internment camp
and post-war prejudice.
A total of 230 books competed for the 2008 Saroyan Prize. The honor
is named for Pulitzer and Academy Award-winning writer William Saroyan
(1908-1981), who was an Armenian-American author born in Fresno, Calif.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
