Claire Vaye Watkins is on a literary award roll. In November she was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35,” and her short story collection, Battleborn, was included on many best of 2012 lists (including ours).
Yesterday, she collected two more awards. Beating out the likes of Junot Díaz, she won The Story Prize, which is awarded for the best short story collection of 2012 and comes with a prize of $20,000. She was also named a One Story 2013 Literary Debutante, who will be feted at the One Story Literary Debutante Ball in Brooklyn on June 6.
This morning she was named a recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award—given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters—honoring “a young writer of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2012″ and accompanied by a prize of $10,000.
Check out our interview of Watkins from last August—when the book was released and the much-deserved accolades were just beginning to pour in—and other coverage of the book here on The Book Case.
I was just listening to a great interview with her on Fresh Air. Glad to come back and see y’all’s post, as well!