{"id":1432,"date":"2018-03-08T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:07:53","slug":"mst-tutor-sarah-bakewell-awarded-a-windham-campbell-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell awarded a Windham-Campbell prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/windhamcampbell.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/thumbnail\/public\/Sarah%20Bakewell%20by%20Tundi%20Eugenia%20Haulik.JPG?resize=175%2C175\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><br \/>\nMSt tutor Sarah Bakewell has been awarded a Windham-Campbell prize.<\/p>\n<p>From the announcement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>T<em>he Call of a Lifetime<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes recently made the call of a lifetime to eight entirely surprised writers, informing them that they will each be recognized with a $165,000 <span class=\"caps\">USD<\/span> prize to support their writing. Awards will be conferred September 12-14 at an international literary festival at Yale, where the Prizes are\u00a0based.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<p><em>Established in 2013 with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M. Campbell, the prizes are among the richest and most prestigious literary prizes on\u00a0earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>English language writers from anywhere in the world are eligible. This year&#8217;s recipients are: in drama, <strong>Lucas Hnath<\/strong> (<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>) and <strong>Suzan-Lori Parks<\/strong> (<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>); in non\ufb01ction, <strong>Sarah Bakewell <\/strong>(<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>) and<strong> Olivia Laing<\/strong> (<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>); in \ufb01ction, <strong>John Keene<\/strong> (<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>) and <strong>Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi<\/strong> (Uganda\/<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>); and in poetry, <strong>Lorna Goodison<\/strong> (Jamaica) and <strong>Cathy Park Hong<\/strong> (<span class=\"caps\">US<\/span>).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Sarah Bakewell unknots complex philosophical thought with verve and wit; her eye for detail and her animated conversation bring readers to inhabit the lives of great philosophers &#8230;<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Go to the prize website to read more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windhamcampbell.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/01\/call-lifetime\">about the prize\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windhamcampbell.org\/2018\/winner\/sarah-bakewell\">about Sarah Bakewell and her writing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell has been awarded a Windham-Campbell prize. From the announcement: &#8220;The Call of a Lifetime The director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes recently made the call of a lifetime to eight entirely surprised writers, informing them that they will each be recognized with a $165,000 USD prize to support their writing. Awards will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-n6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1778,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1778","url_meta":{"origin":1432,"position":0},"title":"MSt tutor Jane Draycott and MSt alumnus Luke Allen win TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prizes","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"January 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt tutor Jane Draycott and MSt alumnus Luke Allen have won second and third TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prizes, respectively. 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