Chautauqua Prize

Given by Chautauqua Institute

93 Works 71,225 Books 3,354 Reviews 4.0
The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institute in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency show more at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts." show less
Stages:
All, Winner (13), Shortlist (83)
Years:
All, 2024 (7), 2023 (10), 2022 (10), 2021 (7), 2020 (7), 2019 (7), 2018 (7), 2017 (6), 2016 (5), 2015 (8), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (6)
Announced:
May 30: Winner2024 Recent

Winner 13

WorkYear
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due2024
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee2023
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner2022
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss2021
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah2020
All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva2019
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich2018
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies2017
Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest by Cyrus Copeland2016
Redeployment by Phil Klay2015
My Foreign Cities: A Memoir by Elizabeth Scarboro2014
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan2013
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak2012

Shortlist 83

WorkYear
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due2024
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2024
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista2024
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad2024
This Other Eden by Paul Harding2024
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link2024
Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History by Emily Strasser2024
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee2023
Horse by Geraldine Brooks2023
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana2023
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter2023
The Orchard: A Novel by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry2023
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories by Meron Hadero2023
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz2023
Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run by Levi Vonk2023
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora2023
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang2023
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner2022
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown2022
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang2022
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson2022
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott2022
Love and Fury by Samantha Silva2022
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden2022
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer2022
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich2021
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans2021
The Bear by Andrew Krivak2021
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey2021
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter2021
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang2021
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi2020
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel2020
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché2020
Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg2020
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad2020
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry2020
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad2020
Little by Edward Carey2019
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon2019
The Overstory by Richard Powers2019
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush2019
The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop2019
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan2018
High Noon by Glenn Frankel2018
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson2018
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey2018
The Signal Flame by Andrew Krivak2018
The Worlds We Think We Know: Stories by Dalia Rosenfeld2018
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H. W. Brands2017
Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s by Victoria Pope Hubbell2017
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters2017
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard2017
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang2017
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario2016
King of the Gypsies by Lenore Myka2016
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God by Steven Nightingale2016
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard2016
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding2015
Byrd by Kim Church2015
The Bully of Order: A Novel by Brian Hart2015
Euphoria by Lily King2015
All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn by Jason Sokol2015
The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer2015
The Witch: And Other Tales Re-Told by Jean Thompson2015
A History of the Present Illness by Louise Aronson2014
Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill2014
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt2014
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin2014
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle2014
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain2013
The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs2013
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King2013
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller2013
The Names of Things by John Colman Wood2013
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks2012
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson2012
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick2012
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen2012
We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories by Stephanie Powell Watts2012

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