NEW YORK — Fiction author Aaliyah Bilal, a Nationwide E book Award finalist final fall for her story assortment “Temple Folks,” is amongst 10 winners of the Whiting Award for rising authors. Bilal and the opposite recipients, who embody fellow fiction writers Yoon Choi, Gothataone Moeng and Ada Zhang, will every be given $50,000.
On Wednesday, the Whiting Basis introduced that Whiting prizes additionally have been awarded to dramatists Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; in addition to poets Taylor Johnson, Charif Shanahan and Elisa Gonzalez; and to poet and nonfiction author Javier Zamora.
“The rigor and fluid fantastic thing about their writing makes us excited for the work to return,” Courtney Hodell, Whiting’s director of Literary Applications, stated in a press release about this 12 months’s honorees.
The awards have been established in 1985, with earlier winners together with Tony Kushner, Mary Karr and Jeffrey Eugenides. The Whitings are designed to “establish distinctive new writers who’ve but to make their mark within the literary tradition.”
