The Story Prize Awards Ceremony 2009

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Partner:: New School
Location:: The New School
New York, NY
Event Date:: 03.04.09
Speakers:: Larry Dark,; Jhumpa Lahiri,; Joe Meno,; Tobias Wolff
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Summary: The three finalists for the Story Prize, awarded annually for outstanding collections of short fiction, are honored at a ceremony at The New School.

The finalists, Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth; Joe Meno, author of Demons in the Spring; and Tobias Wolff, author of Our Story Begins, read and discuss their work. Moderated by Larry Dark, director of the Story Prize.

This year�s judges are author and editor Daniel Menaker, bookseller Rick Simonson, and author and editor Hannah Tinti. The evening culminates in the presentation of the $20,000 prize to the winner for 2009.

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Larry Dark

Larry Dark is the director of The Story Prize, an annual book award for short story collections. He served as series editor for the O. Henry Awards from 1997 to 2002, and before that compiled, edited, and introduced four literary anthologies.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in England to Bengali parents. Her books include the collections Unaccustomed Earth and Interpreter of Maladies, which won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the novel The Namesake. Parts of all three were first published in The New Yorker. Last year, she was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Joe Meno

Joe Meno is a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago.

Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff is the author of numerous books, including the novel "Old School," parts of which originally appeared in The New Yorker; a novella, "The Barracks Thief," which won a PEN/Faulkner Award; four short-story collections; and two memoirs, "This Boy's Life" and "In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War." His most recent book, "Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories," contains several stories that originally appeared in the magazine.