2018 Windham Campbell Prize Recipients Suzan-Lori Parks and Lucas Hnath
DDW Professors Lucas Hnath and Suzan-Lori Parks receive Windham-Campbell Prizes in Drama!
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 earth.
English language writers from anywhere in the world are eligible. This year’s recipients are: in drama, Lucas Hnath (US) and Suzan-Lori Parks (US). Writers from around the world are nominated confidentially and judged anonymously. The call that Prize recipients receive from program director Michael Kelleher is the first time that they have learned of their consideration.
Lucas Hnath’s agile writing ranges across genres and subjects with voracious curiosity; his wit, formal daring and poetic precision crystallize dramas that are socially incisive and indelible.
Suzan-Lori Parks is an artist whose ethical imagination confronts rather than consoles; she acknowledges in the fissures of language and human relations the complexities of a fraught world.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
For further information, please visit windhamcampbell.org, or contact Lauren Cerand
(Lauren Cerand, 2018)