| Steven Hayward wins prestigious
award for emerging novelists |
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English Professor Steven Hayward is the 2006 winner of the Grinzane
Cavour Prize for Emerging Novelists for his novel, The Secret
Mitzvah of Lucio Burke.
Established in 1982, the Grinzane Cavour Prize is one of the most
famous Italian awards for fiction. Among its recipients are some of
the most important writers in the world, including Jorge Amado, Mario
Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Günter Grass, Julien Green, Nadine Gordimer,
Doris Lessing, Wole Soyinka, Carlos Fuentes, Czeslaw Milosz, Bohumil
Hrabal, Yves Bonnefoy, J. M. Coetzee and V.S. Naipaul. Dr. Hayward
will receive the award of 5,000 Euros at ceremony in June 2006 at
Grinzane Cavour Castle (about 40 km. from Turin, Italy).
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Click on audio icon above to hear Steven Hayward read a segment
(20 min) from his novel |
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