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Prizes are awarded annually by the editors of The Paris Review. Winning selections are announced in the winter issue. No application form is required; winners are selected from the stories and poems published in The Paris Review each year.
The Plimpton Prize
$10,000 is awarded to the best work of fiction published in The Paris Review in a given year by an emerging or previously unpublished writer.
The 2007 Plimpton Prize was awarded to Benjamin Percy for his story “Refresh, Refresh” from issue 175.
The 2008 Plimpton Prize will be awarded to Jesse Ball for his story “The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr” from issue 183. The Plimpton Prize honors The Paris Review's longtime editor, George Plimpton, who presided over the magazine for fifty years, until his death in September 2003. The prize will be awarded annually for the best piece of fiction by a newcomer to appear in The Paris Review that year. The prize continues the tradition of the magazine's Discovery Prize, which has been awarded to such writers as Elizabeth Gilbert, Julie Orringer, and Karl Iagnemma.
The Paris Review Hadada
A bronze statuette, The Paris Review Hadada is awarded annually to a distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to the literary arts.
The 2006 Hadada was awarded to Joan Didion. The 2007 Hadada was given to Norman Mailer.
The 2008 Hadada will be awarded to Peter Matthiessen. During the spring of 2003, George Plimpton conceived the idea of awarding a statuette of The Paris Review bird to honor a writer, a reader, an editor, a publisher, or an organization. The magazine’s original emblem, designed by its first art editor William Pène du Bois, is an eagle with a Phrygian cap (a French revolutionary hat to denote the French connection) perched atop a pen. Its image now appears on the cover of every issue. But because some have claimed that the emblem does not quite look like an actual eagle, it was decided to name the award after Plimpton’s favorite bird, the hadada, an ibis. Barney Rosset won the first Hadada prize in 2003 and George Plimpton was given the award posthumously, also in 2003. William Styron was awarded the 2004 prize.
PAST WINNERS
Plimpton (Discovery) Prize
2004: Malinda McCollum, Issue 171, for “The Fifth Wall”
2003: Yiyun Li, Issue 167, for “Immortality”
2002: Wells Tower, Issue 161, for “The Brown Coast”
2001: John Barlow, Issue 160, “Eating Mammals”
2000: Karl Iagnemma, Issue 157, “On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction”
1999: Daniel Libman, Issue 150, “In the Belly of the Cat”
1998: Julie Orringer, Issue 149, “When She Is Old and I Am Famous”
1997: Martin McDonagh, Issue 142, “The Cripple of Inishmaan”
1996: Elizabeth Gilbert, Issue 141, “The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick”
1995: Lise Goett, Issue 133, “Three Poems”
1994: Vikram Chandra, Issue 130, “Dharma”
1993: Macia Guthridge, Issue 128, “Bones”
Aga Khan Prize
2004: Annie Proulx, Issue 171, “The Wamsutter Wolf”
2003: Michael Chabon, Issue 166, for "The Final Solution"
2002: Denis Johnson, Issue 162, for “Train Dreams”
2001: Maile Meloy, Issue 158, “Aqua Boulevard”
2000: Marcel Moring, Issue 155, “East Bergholt”
1999: Robert Antoni, Issue 152, “My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head”
1998: Will Self, Issue 146, “Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys”
1997: David Foster Wallace, Issue 144, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6”
1996: Patricia Eakins, Issue 140, “The Garden of Fishes”
1995: A. S. Byatt, Issue 133, “The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye”
1994: Rick Moody, Issue 131, “The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven”
1993: Charles D'Ambrosio, Issue 126, “Her Real Name”
1992: Joanna Scott, Issue 123, “A Borderline Case”
1991: Jeffrey Eugenides, Issue 117, “The Virgin Suicides”
1990: Larry Woiwode, Issue 114, “Summer Storms”
1989: John Banville, Issue 113, “The Book of Evidence”
1987: Ben Okri, Issue 105, “The Dream-Vendor's August”
1985: Michael Covino, Issue 94, “Monologue of the Movie Mogul”
1984: Norman Rush, Issue 93, “Instruments of Seduction”
1983: Charlie Smith, Issue 88, “Crystal River”
1982: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Issue 84, “Greasy Lake”
1979: Norman Lock, Issue 76, “The Love of Stanley Marvel & Claire Moon”
1978: Dallas Wiebe, Issue 73, “Night Flight to Stockholm”
1977: C. W. Gusewelle, Issue 70, “Horst Wessel”
1976: Bart Midwood, Issue 66, “John O'Neill versus the Crown”
1975: David Evanier, Issue 61, “Cancer of the Testicles”
1974: Lamar Herrin, Issue 59, “The Rio Loja Ringmaster”
1973: Paul West, Issue 57, “Tan Salaam”
1967: Christina Stead, Issue 40, “George”
1965: Jeremy Larner, Issue 33, “Oh, the Wonder!”
1962: Albert Guerard, Issue 28, “The Lusts & Gratification of Andrada”
1961: Thomas Whitbread, Issue 24, “The Rememberer”
1958: Philip Roth, Issue 19, “Epstein”
1956: Gina Berriault, Issue 12, “Around the Dear Ruin”
1956: John Langdon, Issue 12, “The Blue Serge Suit”
1956: Owen Dodson, Issue 12, “The Summer Fire” (2nd Prize:)
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry
2004: Jeremy Glazier, Issue, 170, “Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger,” and Danielle Pieratti, Issue 170, Five Poems.
2003: Julie Sheehan, Issue 167, for “Brown-headed Cow Birds”
2002: Timothy Donnelly, Issue 164, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
2001: Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Issue 160, “Circus Fire, 1944”
2000: Corey Marks, Issue 155, “Renunciation”
2000: Christopher Patton, Issue 157, “Broken Ground”
1999: J. D. McClatchy, Issue 152, “Tattoos”
1998: Neil Azevedo, Issue 148, “Caspar Hauser Songs”
1998: Sherod Santos, Issue 149, “Elegy for My Sister”
1997: John Drury, Issue 145, “Burning the Aspern Papers”
1996: Sarah Arvio, Issue 140, “Visits from the Seventh”
1996: John Voiklis, Issue 139, “The Princeling's Apology”
1995: Vijay Seshadri, Issue 137, “Lifeline”
1994: Marilyn Hacker, Issue 131, “Cancer Winter”
1994: Stewart James, Issue 132, “Vanessa”
1993: Stephen Yenser, Issue 129, “Blue Guide”
1992: Tony Sanders, Issue 126, “The Warning Track”
1991: Donald Hall, Issue 123, “Museum of Clear Ideas”
1990: Christopher Logue, Issue 117, “Kings”
1989: Jorie Graham, Issue 110, “Spring”
1988: David Lehman, Issue 106, “Mythologies”
1985: James Schuyler, Issue 96, “A Few Days”
1984: Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Issue 94, “Imaginary Prisons”
1984: Sharon Ben-Tov, Issue 93, “Carillon for Cambridge Women”
1986: John Koethe, Issue 102, “Mistral”
1982: Gerald Stern, Issue 83, “Father Guzman”
1981: Frank Bidart, Issue 80, “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”
John Train Humor Prize
1991: Dan Leone, Issue 125, “Spinach 1991”
1990: Robie Macauley, Issue 114, “Silence”; “Exile”; “Cunnning”
1990: Padgett Powell, Issue 115, “Mr. Irony”; “Mr. Irony Renounces Irony”
1989: Edna O'Brien, Issue 110, “Dramas”
1987: David Foster Wallace, Issue 106, “Little Expressionless Animals”
1985: Stephen Dixon, Issue 97, “Goodbye to Goodbye”
1984: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Issue 93, “The Hector Quesadilla Story”
1970: Paul Spike, Issue 49, “Specks Saga”
1968: Mordecai Richler, Issue 42, “A Liberal Education”
1966: Rosalyn Drexler, Issue 38, “Dear”
1964: Stanley Elkin, Issue 32, “The Great Sandusky”
1961: Hughes Rudd, Issue 26, “Miss Eulayla is the Sweetest Thang”
1961: Bowden Broadwater, Issue 25, “Ciao”
1959: Terry Southern, Issue 21, “Grand Guy Grand” |
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