Yale University announced the inaugural set of winners of its Windham Campbell Literature Prizes Monday morning at a press conference in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the university. Nine writers--three fiction writers, three playwrights, and three nonfiction writers--were awarded $150,000 each by an anonymous panel of distinguished judges drawn from across the literary arts with the objective of rewarding excellence in established and emergent English-language literature.
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