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Announcing the Longlist for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize

The Aspen Words Literary Prize is a $35,000 annual award for a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue. The 14 titles included in the 2 ...

BY Aspen Words

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11.09.2023
Literature

“The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” by Jamil Jan Kochai Wins Aspen Words Literary Prize

The prize is awarded annually to an influential work of fiction that highlights a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.19.2023
Literature

Jamil Jan Kochai Writes to Preserve Stories that Might Otherwise be Lost to Time

In March, Aspen Words announced the 2023 finalists for the sixth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 award recognizing a work of fiction that a ...

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.12.2023
Literature

The Long Reckoning

In The Long Reckoning, George Black recounts the story of the small cast of characters—veterans, scientists, a private US foundation, and Quaker-inspired pacifists, and their Vietnamese partners—who used their moral authority, scientific and political ingenuity, and sheer persistence to attempt to heal the horrors left in the wake of the military engagement in Southeast Asia. Their intersecting story is one of reconciliation, embedded in a vivid portrait of Vietnam today, with all its startling collisions between past and present, in which one-time mortal enemies have been transformed into close allies and partners. Click here to read the reviews of The Long Reckoning.

BY The Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

Of Interest

04.07.2023
Literature

Angie Cruz Addresses Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Gay Rhetoric Head-On in Her Most Recent Novel

In March, Aspen Words announced the 2023 finalists for the sixth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 award recognizing a work of fiction that a ...

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.07.2023
Literature

Manuel Muñoz Writes Past Boundaries

In March, Aspen Words announced the 2023 finalists for the sixth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 award recognizing a work of fiction that a ...

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.07.2023
Literature

Oscar Hokeah Writes to Better Understand Himself and the People Around Him

In March, Aspen Words announced the 2023 finalists for the sixth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 award recognizing a work of fiction that a ...

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.07.2023
Literature

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri Wants to Bring Your Attention to Nature

Her short story collection What We Fed to the Manticore is narrated from animal perspectives.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

01.17.2023
Literature

Fatimah Asghar Is Rewriting the Orphan Narrative

Her novel "When We Were Sisters" traces the bond of three siblings who are left to raise one another after their parents die.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

01.10.2023
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