The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Estate. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.

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  • The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Estate. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language. The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin, a distinguished critic and Smith College professor until he lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed. Past recipients: 2009 Geoffrey Hill - Collected Critical Writings 2008 Helen Small - The Long Life 2007 William H. Gass - A Temple of Texts 2006 Geoffrey Hartman and Daniel T. O'Hara - The Geoffrey Hartman Reader 2005 Angus Fletcher - A New Theory for American Poetry 2004 Susan Stewart - Poetry and the Fate of the Senses 2003 Seamus Heaney - Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001 2002 Declan Kiberd - Irish Classics 2001 Malcolm Bowie - Proust Among the Stars 2000 Elaine Scarry - Dreaming by the Book and Philip Fisher - Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction 1999 Charles Rosen - Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen 1998 John Kerrigan - Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon 1997 John Felstiner - Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew 1996 Helen Vendler - The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefintion The Truman Capote Literary Trust also established a lifetime achievement award worth $100,000 and administered through the Stanford University Creative Writing Program. It has been awarded to Alfred Kazin (1996) and George Steiner (1998). The Truman Capote Literary Trust was established in 1994 (after the death of Capote's longtime companion Jack Dunphy) by Capote's executor, Alan U. Schwartz, pursuant to Capote's will. It also funds a variety of fellowships and scholarships, all financed by the continuing royalties and revenues from Capote's literary works.
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  • The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Estate. The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.
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