2019 Prize Recipients

Danielle McLaughlin

Fiction

Danielle McLaughlin

Ireland

Poetry

Kwame Dawes

United States/Jamaica/Ghana

Patricia Cornelius

Drama

Patricia Cornelius

Australia

Nonfiction

Raghu Karnad

India

David Chariandy

Fiction

David Chariandy

Canada

Drama

Young Jean Lee

United States

Ishion Hutchinson

Poetry

Ishion Hutchinson

Jamaica

Nonfiction

Rebecca Solnit

United States

Why I Write

Renowned poet Eileen Myles to deliver the 2019 "Why I Write" lecture

Renowned poet Eileen Myles to deliver the 2019 "Why I Write" lecture

Yale University Press publishes INADVERTENT by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Yale University Press publishes INADVERTENT by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Why I Write

Watch Elizabeth Alexander deliver the 2018 "Why I Write" lecture More

Watch Karl Ove Knausgaard deliver the 2017 "Why I Write" lecture More

Watch Patti Smith deliver the 2016 "Why I Write" lecture More

ON INSTAGRAM

We are thrilled to support these events with @edmunddewaal in Venice this week!

Our good friend @mrdamianbarr of @damianbarrliterarysalon with @cheemobile reading from #youwillbesafehere @greenlightbklyn

Last night was an ideal spring night in New York as we hosted a preview party for media and influencers to meet @WindhamCampbell Prize recipient Helon Habila and give them an advance copy of his new novel, TRAVELERS (@w.w.norton), which everyone will be talking about this summer ⤴️link in bio to pre-order). It all happened @apublicspace with catering from @greenegrape.

📸: @thisispattismith @mcnallyjackson #whyiwrite

2019 Prize Announcement