Edward Lewis Wallant Award

In 1962, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award was established at the University of Hartford, in Connecticut, USA by Fran and Irving Waltman. It is presented annually to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.

Awards[]

• 1963 - Norman Fruchter, Coat Upon a Stick
• 1964 - , Leah
• 1965 - Hugh Nissenson, A Pile of Stones
• 1966 - , Home Is Where You Start From
• 1967 - Chaim Potok, The Chosen
• 1968 - no award
• 1969 - Leo Litwak, Waiting for the News
• 1970 - no award
• 1971 - Cynthia Ozick, The Pagan Rabbi
• 1972 - , Somewhere Else
• 1973 - Arthur A. Cohen, In the Days of Simon Stern
• 1974 - Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Anya
• 1975 - Anne Bernays, Growing Up Rich
• 1976 - no award
• 1977 - Curt Leviant, The Yemenite Girl
• 1978 - no award
• 1979 - no award
• 1980 - , O My America!
• 1981 - , Kagan's Superfecta
• 1982 - no award
• 1983 - Francine Prose, Hungry Hearts
• 1984 - no award
• 1985 - Jay Neugeboren, Before My Life Began
• 1986 - Daphne Merkin, Enchantment
• 1987 - Steve Stern, Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven
• 1988 - , Master of the Return
• 1989 - , The Final Opus of Leon Solomon
• 1990 - no award
• 1991 - no award
• 1992 - Melvin Jules Bukiet, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
• 1993 - Gerald Shapiro, From Hunger
• 1994 - no award
• 1995 - Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel
• 1996 - Thane Rosenbaum, Elijah Visible
• 1997 - Harvey Grossinger, The Quarry
• 1998 - no award
• 1999 - Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls
• 2000 - Judy Budnitz, If I Told You Once
• 2001 - Myla Goldberg, Bee Season
• 2002 - Dara Horn, In the Image
• 2003 - , An Hour in Paradise
• 2004 - Jonathan Rosen, Joy Comes in the Morning
• 2005 - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
• 2006 - no award
• 2007 - Ehud Havazelet, Bearing the Body
• 2008 - Eileen Pollack, In the Mouth
• 2009 - Sara Houghteling, Pictures at an Exhibition
• 2010 - Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
• 2011 - Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
• 2012 - , The World Without You
• 2013 - Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker
• 2014 - David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers
• 2015 - , "The Sunlit Night"
• 2016 - Ayelet Tsabari, "The Best Place on Earth"
• 2017 - Margot Singer, "Underground Fugue"
• 2018 - Eduardo Halfon, "Mourning"
• 2019 - Peter Orner, "Maggie Brown & Others"
• 2020 - , "The Party Upstairs"

References[]

• The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, The University of Hartford