Norman Mailer Prize

The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony to celebrate writers and their works.^[1] Norman Mailer was a 20th-century American author. Prizes were given in the years 2009–2015.

Honorees

2009^[2]

• Lifetime Achievement: Toni Morrison
• Distinguished Journalism: David Halberstam

2010^[3]

• Lifetime Achievement: Orhan Pamuk
• Lifetime Achievement in Magazine Publishing: Jann Wenner
• Distinguished Journalism and Humanitarianism: Ruth Gruber

2011^[4][5][6]

• Lifetime Achievement: Elie Wiesel
• Distinguished Writing: Arundhati Roy
• Distinguished Journalism: Gay Talese
• Biography: Keith Richards, Life

2012^[7]

• Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Carol Oates
• Distinguished Publishing: Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr.
• Biography: Robert A. Caro

2013^[8]

• Lifetime Achievement: Maya Angelou
• Distinguished Writing: Junot Diaz
• Distinguished Journalism: Michael Hastings

2014^[9]

• Lifetime Achievement: Don DeLillo
• Distinguished Magazine Publishing: Katrina vanden Heuvel
• Distinguished Poetry: Billy Collins

2015^[10]

• Lifetime Achievement: Salman Rushdie

2016

• (no prize)

References

1. The Mailer Prize Archived 2011-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, official website.
2. "Literary Lights Fête Mailer". The Daily Beast. October 21, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
3. Molly Young (October 20, 2010). "Mailer's Night". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
4. "Keith Richards Wins Mailer Award ", Allison Yarrow, The Daily Beast, Nov. 4, 2011.
5. "Arundhati Roy Awarded 2011 Norman Mailer Prize." India – West, December 02, 2011., A31, Newspaper Source Plus, EBSCOhost (accessed October 16, 2012).
6. "Clinton Upstaged by Keith." New York Post, Nov 10, 2011.
7. Joyce Carol Oates (October 4, 2012). "Joyce Carol Oates Salutes Norman Mailer". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
8. Hillel Italie (October 17, 2013). "Maya Angelou accepts Mailer Center lifetime award". Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
9. "2014 Norman Mailer Prize recipients".
10. Rosemary Feitelberg (November 20, 2015). "Norman Mailer Center to Honor Salman Rushdie in Brooklyn at Pratt". WWD. Retrieved December 2, 2015.

External links

• The Mailer Prize, official website.