The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for
literary criticism by the
University of Iowa on behalf of the
Truman Capote Literary Trust. 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.[1] The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating both Capote and his friend
Newton Arvin, who was a distinguished critic and
Smith College professor until he lost his job in 1960 after his
homosexuality was publicly exposed.[2]
Recipients
1996
Helen Vendler – The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for
literary criticism by the
University of Iowa on behalf of the
Truman Capote Literary Trust. 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.[1] The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating both Capote and his friend
Newton Arvin, who was a distinguished critic and
Smith College professor until he lost his job in 1960 after his
homosexuality was publicly exposed.[2]
Recipients
1996
Helen Vendler – The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition