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Festival 2015

Hilton Als delivers the Windham-Campbell Lecture at Sprague Hall, Yale University, on September 28, 2015. Introduced by James Bundy, Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theater. The lecture will be the first publication in a new series by Yale University Press called “Why I Write.”

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The 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize winners answer the question, “Why Write?”

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Ivan Vladislavić reads from his book Portrait with Keys at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Geoff Dyer reads from an unpublished essay about Jackson Pollock at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Edmund de Waal reads from his book The White Road at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury reads from an untitled play-in-progress at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner John Jeremiah Sullivan reads from an unpublished essay at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Helon Habila reads from his novel Oil on Water at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Windham-Campbell Prize winner Teju Cole reads from his novel Open City at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham discusses fiction writing withWindham-Campbell Prize winners Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball leads a discussion with Anne Fadiman and Windham-Campbell Prize winners Geoff Dyer and John Jeremiah Sullivan at the 2015 Prize Festival.

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NINE INTERNATIONAL WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZEWINNERS ANNOUNCED

Recipients, chosen for fiction, nonfiction, and drama, each receive $150,000 unrestricted grants

NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24–– The Windham-Campbell Prizes announced today its third round of prizewinners, chosen confidentially in three categories –– fiction, nonfiction, and drama ––to honor and support writers anywhere in the world writing in English. The awards, which come with a $150,000 check, can be given for a body of work or extraordinary promise. The 2015 winners are, in fiction: Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić; in nonfiction: Edmund de Waal, Geoff Dyer, and John Jeremiah Sullivan; and, in drama: Jackie Sibblies Drury, Helen Edmundson, and Debbie Tucker Green. Full bios are just below.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes were established by Donald Windham and Sandy M. Campbell to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. The Prizes debuted in 2013. There is no submission process and winners are determined by a global group of invited nominators, a jury in each cate-gory, and a selection committee.

In September, the winners will gather from around the world at Yale (where the Prizes are based), for an international literary festival celebrating their work. All events are free and open to the public.

“The Windham-Campbell Prizes were created by a writer to support other writers, said Michael Kelleher, director of the program. “Donald Windham recognized that the most significant gift he could give to another writer was time to write. In addition to the recognition prestige it confers, the prize gives them just that – with no strings attached.”