The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is an annual literary award presented to a writer whose fiction is considered to have significance for American Jews. It was established in 1962 at the University of Hartford by Fran and Irving Waltman.
The award is named for Jewish American writer Edward Lewis Wallant.
Awards +Award winnersYearAuthorTitle1963 Coat Upon a Stick1964 Leah19651966 Home Is Where You Start From19671968No award1969 Waiting for the News1970No award19711972 Somewhere Else1973 In the Days of Simon Stern1974 Anya1975 Growing Up Rich1976No award19771978No award1979No award1980 O My America!1981 Kagan's Superfecta1982No award1983 Hungry Hearts1984No award1985 Before My Life Began1986 Enchantment1987 Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven1988 Master of the Return19891990No award1991No award1992 Stories of an Imaginary Childhood1993 From Hunger1994No award1995 Mazel1996 Elijah Visible19971998No award1999 Kaaterskill Falls2000 If I Told You Once2001 Bee Season2002 In the Image20032004 Joy Comes in the Morning20052006No award2007 Bearing the Body2008 In the Mouth2009 Pictures at an Exhibition20102011 Binocular Vision2012201320142015 2016 2017 Underground Fugue2018 Mourning2019 Maggie Brown & Others2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
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