The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."
Honorees +Chautauqua Prize winners and shortlistYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2012 Winner Caleb's CrossingShortlist In the Garden of BeastsShortlist Why Read Moby-Dick?Shortlist We Are Taking Only What We NeedShortlist All Cry ChaosShortlist 2013 Short Nights of the Shadow CatcherWinner and Michael Duffy Shortlist Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkWinner Devil in the GroveShortlist Shortlist Shortlist2014 My Foreign CitiesWinner Shortlist Sea of HooksShortlist Shortlist Shortlist WashShortlist 2015 RedeploymentWinner Shortlist ByrdShortlist Shortlist EuphoriaShortlist All Eyes Are Upon UsShortlist Shortlist Shortlist 2016 Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's QuestWinner It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and WarShortlist King of the Gypsies: StoriesShortlist Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of GodShortlist Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarShortlist 2017 Winner Shortlist Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920sShortlist Underground AirlinesShortlist American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common GoodShortlist Shortlist 2018 Winner Salt HousesShortlist High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American ClassicShortlist Shortlist Shortlist Shortlist Shortlist 2019 All the Names They Used For GodWinner LittleShortlist Shortlist Heavy: An American MemoirShortlist Shortlist Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreShortlist Shortlist 2020 Out of Darkness, Shining LightWinner Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee OdysseyShortlist What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and ResistanceShortlist Feast Your EyesShortlist Shortlist Breathe: A Letter to My SonsShortlist Bangkok Wakes to RainShortlist 2021 Having and Being HadWinner Shortlist Shortlist Transcendent KingdomShortlist Shortlist Memorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirShortlist Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the SouthShortlist How Much of These Hills is GoldShortlist 2022All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerWinnerFacing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War IIShortlistDear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and GriefShortlistDamnation SpringShortlistShortlistAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeShortlistHell of a BookShortlistLove and Fury: A Novel of Mary WollstonecraftShortlistShortlistToday a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: StoriesShortlist2023The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New HumanWinnerThe Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and OriginShortlist with Axel KirschnerBorder Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the RunShortlistA Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: StoriesShortlistFour Treasures of the SkyShortlistHorseShortlistThe LatecomerShortlistThe OrchardShortlistSolito: A MemoirShortlistStories from the Tenants DownstairsShortlist2024The ReformatoryWinnerChain-Gang All-StarsShortlistEnter GhostShortlistThis Other EdenShortlistWhite Cat, Black Dog: StoriesShortlistHalf-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden HistoryShortlist
References
External links The Chautauqua Prize, official website.