William Saroyan International Prize for WritingNonfiction

Given by William Saroyan Foundation

Otros Nombres: William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Finalist (Inglés), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Shortlist (Inglés)
89 Obras 3,029 Libros 162 Reseñas 4.1
The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation jointly award the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, a biennial competition for newly-published books. The prize mostrar más commemorates the life, legacy and intentions of William Saroyan - author, artist, dramatist, composer - and is intended to encourage new or emerging writers, rather than to recognize established literary figures. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Finalist (30), Shortlist (139), No Stage (19)
Categorias:
Todos, Ficción (93), Fiction winner (2), No-ficción (89), Nonfiction winner (3), No Category (1)
Years:
Todos, 2022 (1), 2020 (14), 2018 (15), 2016 (14), 2014 (15), 2012 (11), 2010 (15), 2008 (2), 2005 (2)

Finalist 13

ObraAño
Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here por Angela Palm2018
Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet por Edward Wilson-Lee2018
Russian Tattoo: A Memoir por Elena Gorokhova2016
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War por Susan Southard2016
REMANDO COMO UN HOMBRE SOLO por Daniel James Brown2014
Solacers por Arion Golmakani2012
Pulphead: Essays por John Jeremiah Sullivan2012
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life por Brian Brett2010
Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story por Maryalice Huggins2010
Ticket to Exile por Adam David Miller2008
Return of the Condor: The Race to Save Our Largest Bird from Extinction por John Moir2008
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia por Tom Bissell2005
The Children's Blizzard por David Laskin2005

Shortlist 70

ObraAño
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria por Rania Abouzeid2020
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me por Adrienne Brodeur2020
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays por Alexander Chee2020
The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life por Doug Bock Clark2020
Neruda: The Poet's Calling por Mark Eisner2020
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation por Robert W. Fieseler2020
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice por William E. Glassley2020
Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa por Akemi Johnson2020
Russia's 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories por Michael Khodarkovsky2020
In the Dream House: A Memoir por Carmen Maria Machado2020
Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring por Josh Rosenblatt2020
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds por Caroline Van Hemert2020
The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice por Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh2020
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste por Bianca Bosker2018
No Relation por Paula Carter2018
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve por Lenora Chu2018
Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak por Glenn Dixon2018
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen por Kate Fagan2018
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone por Olivia Laing2018
The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat: A Young Woman's Search for Ethical Food por Marissa Landrigan2018
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years por David Litt2018
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp por Ben Rawlence2018
Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim por Sabeeha Rehman2018
The People Elsewhere: Unbound Journeys with the Storytellers of Myanmar por Lucas Stewart2018
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction por Britt Wray2018
Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World por Andy Bull2016
The Four Words for Home por Angie Chuang2016
Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging por Joshua Dolezal2016
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War por David Halton2016
Bettyville: A Memoir por George Hodgman2016
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World por Joel K. Bourne Jr2016
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War por Rohini Mohan2016
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade por Barbara Rylko-Bauer2016
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape por Lauret Savoy2016
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond por Meline Toumani2016
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return por Kenan Trebincevic2016
Crossing the Line: A Marriage across Borders por Linda Valdez2016
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care por Cris Beam2014
We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust por Ellen Cassedy2014
La distancia entre nosotros por Reyna Grande2014
Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez por Aaron Hirsh2014
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation por Yossi Klein Halevi2014
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century por David Laskin2014
River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa por Ben Miller2014
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir por Deborah A. Miranda2014
El Fuerte de las Nueve Torres por Qais Akbar Omar2014
The Man with the Bionic Brain: And Other Victories over Paralysis por Jon Mukand MD PhD2014
Slowspoke: A Unicyclist's Guide to America por Mark Schimmoeller2014
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine por Victoria Sweet2014
The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society por David Wolman2014
Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina por Ellis Anderson2012
Tales from a Mountain City: A Vietnam War Memoir por Quynh Dao2012
The Good Daughter por Jasmin Darznik2012
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam por Eliza Griswold2012
Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream por Garin K. Hovannisian2012
Black Elephants: A Memoir por Karol Nielsen2012
Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir (Sightline Books) por Peter Selgin2012
Rattlesnake Daddy: A Son's Search for His Father por Brent Spencer2012
Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter por Nancy Agabian2010
Notes from no man's land por Eula Bliss2010
The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction por Glen Chilton2010
The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars por Christopher Cokinos2010
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood por Taras Grescoe2010
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents por Minal Hajratwala2010
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds por Trevor Herriot2010
Opa Nobody por Sonya Huber2010
The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption por Harry N. MacLean2010
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island por Peter Rudiak-Gould2010
Everyone Had Cameras por Richard Steven Street2010
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story por Christina Thompson2010

No Stage 6

ObraAño
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir por Wayétu Moore2022
Homesick por Jennifer Croft2020
On Trails: An Exploration por Robert Moor2018
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code por Margalit Fox2014
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating por Elisabeth Tova Bailey2012
The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire por Linda Himelstein2010

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