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Уилла (Willa Literary Award) - ежегодная американская национальная литературная награда за лучшие истории, написанные женщинами.

Премия вручается с 1999 года Women Writing the West (WWW) - освобожденной от налогов ассоциацией женщин, пишущих об американском Западе. Ассоциация поддерживает авторов и других специалистов в продвижении вклада женщин в историю, культуру и развитие Запада Америки. Членство в этой ассоциации открыто для всех во всем мире.

Награда названа в честь лауреата Пулитцеровской премии 1923 года - американской писательницы и ведущего романиста страны Уиллы Кэсер (1873-1947).

Лауреаты выбираются профессиональными библиотекарями колледжей, университетов, публичных библиотек и научно-исследовательских учреждений, историками страны.

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Награды вручаются на осенней конференции женской ассоциации WWW Fall. Победители получают специальный Диплом и статуэтку.

Жанры: Современная зарубежная литература, Детские книги, Зарубежные детские книги, Книги для подростков, Зарубежная поэзия, Зарубежная публицистика, Эссе, Поэзия, Биографии и мемуары Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1999 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: http://www.womenwritingthewest.org/index.html

Номинации

Cовременный роман
WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction
Исторический роман
WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction
Книга для детей и молодежи
WILLA Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Номинация появилась в 2001 году. Она объединила две существовавшие ранее номинации "Детская книга" и "Книга для подростков".

Детская книга
WILLA Literary Award for Children's Fiction
Поэзия
WILLA Literary Award for Poetry

Номинация учреждена в 2001 году.

Оригинальная книга в мягкой обложке
WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction
Мемуары/эссе
WILLA Literary Award for Memoir/Essay

Премия в этой номинации вручалась с 1999 по 2006 год.

Документальная книга
WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction
Научная публицистика
WILLA Literary Award for Scholarly Nonfiction
Книга для подростков
WILLA Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction
Публицистика для детей
WILLA Literary Award for Children's Nonfiction

Вручение премии в этой номинации прошло только в 2000 году.

Книга для детей
WILLA Literary Award for Children’s Fiction and Nonfiction

Номинация появилась в 2021 году. Участвуют детские художественные и документальные книги.

Любовный роман
WILLA Literary Award for Romance

Премия присуждается с 2021 года.

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Cовременный роман
Happy for You
Клэр Стэнфорд 0.0
A whip-smart, funny, affecting novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking to break into the "happiness market"--even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than ever

Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her reserved Japanese father is energized by a new relationship--his first since her mother's passing when Evelyn was just fourteen. The privacy-invading, norm-reinforcing apps, algorithms, and self-optimization messaging that surround her seem more sure of what Evelyn should think and want than she is.

Looking for a change, Evelyn accepts a job as a researcher at the third-most popular internet company, housed at a glass and steel office building in downtown San Francisco. There, she is charged with aiding in the development of an app that will help users quantify--and augment--their happiness. As she grapples with the tech world's bewildering work culture and jolting excess, an unexpected development in her personal life upends her assumptions about her future, and Evelyn embarks on a journey towards an authentic happiness all her own.

Wry, touching, and sharply attuned to the ambivalence, atomization, and illusion of control that characterize modern life, Happy for You is a story of a young woman at a crossroads that movingly explores how, even in this mediated world, our emotions, contradictions, and vulnerabilities have a transformative power we could never predict.
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Исторический роман
Woman of Light
Кали Фахардо-Анстин 4.0
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina

"There is one every generation--a seer who keeps the stories."

Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930's Denver on her own, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion.

Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love, filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz.
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Книга для детей и молодежи
Meg and the Rocks
Кэти Хэммел 0.0
A thirteen year-old girl. A vast pile of uranium.
Two stories of one country as World War II rages. For ages 11 and up.

Meg, daughter of American Protestant missionaries, is more at home in Japan, where she grew up. But now she finds herself in a world of strangers in a country that should welcome her.

All she wants is to make some friends but she’ll find that it will require all her dedication and strength to stand up for Deanna, her friend that’s imprisoned in an internment camp in Manzanar, CA. Can she bridge the gulf being created by the US government and protect Deanna from an abuser?

Meanwhile, WWII is creating rifts between countries, and the world is in a race to build a bomb. Who will get there first?

Inspired by historical events, and true stories, Meg and the Rocks is an extraordinary novel that proves the bonds of friendship can make hope flourish, even in hopeless times.
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Поэзия
Prairie Midden
Афина Килдегаард 0.0
"In PRAIRIE MIDDEN, Athena Kildegaard delves into the archives and recovers and revivifies what was kept of the voices of settler women. She brings them into conversation with this moment--weaving a braid of voices from 19th century all the way to the 21st. These voices that build across centuries are at turns poignant, ruminative, and elegiac for not only people but also the prairie. They speak to settler and settled life in a place shaped in the name of "progress." I appreciate the way this moving collection brings me into these lives, and as the speaker of one of the "Dear prairie daughters" poems says "the only connections are the ones we make." You'll be grateful to connect with Prairie Midden."--Sean Hill, author of Dangerous Goods
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Документальная книга
Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
Кэти Хикман 0.0
"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard."

The true-life story of women's experiences in the 'Wild West' is more gripping, more heart-rending, and more stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends and ballads that popular imagination has been able to create.

Whether they were the hard-drinking hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, 'ordinary' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slave-brides working in laundries, or the Native American women displaced by the mass migration of the 'whites' to their lands, all have one trait in common: that of extreme resilience and courage in the face of the unknown.

Reading the extraordinary accounts they have left behind them, their experiences seem as strange to us today as it must have been to have lived through them, perhaps even stranger. They were put to the test, in terms of sheer survival, in ways that we can only dimly imagine.
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Научная публицистика
The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Крис Энсс 0.0
There weren’t many women in the late 1800s who had the opportunity to accompany their husbands on adventures that were so exciting they seemed fictitious. Such was the case for the women married to the officers in General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry. There were seven officers’ wives. They were all good friends who traveled from post to post with one another along with their spouses. Of the seven widows, Elizabeth Custer was the most well-known. As the wife of the commanding officer, Libbie felt it was her duty to be present when the officer’s wives at Fort Lincoln were told their husbands had been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The women were overwhelmed with letters of condolence. Most people were sincere in their expressions of sorrow over the widows’ loss. Others were ghoulish souvenir hunters requesting articles of their husbands’ clothing and personal weapons as keepsakes. The press was preoccupied with how the wives of the deceased officers were handling their grief. During the first year after the tragic event, reporters sought them out to learn how they were coping, what plans they had for the future, and what, if anything, they knew about the battle itself. The widows were able to soldier through the scrutiny because they had one another. They confided in each other, cried without apologizing, and discussed their desperate financial situations. The friendship the bereaved widows had with one another proved to be a critical source of support. The transition from being officers’ wives living at various forts on the wild frontier to being single women with homes of their own was a difficult adjustment. Without one another to depend upon, the time might have been more of a struggle. The Widowed Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn tells the stories of these women and the unique bond they shared through never-before-seen materials from the Elizabeth Custer Library and Museum at Garryowen, Montana, including letters to and from politicians and military leaders to the widows, fellow soldiers and critics of George Custer to the widows, and letters between the widows themselves about when the women first met, the men they married, and their attempts to persevere after the tragedy.
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Книга для детей
The Other Side of the River
Альда Доббс 0.0
A novel about building a new life in America. Strong and determined, Petra Luna returns in a story about the immigrant experience.

Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Still, twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby brother depend on her to survive. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. And for the first time ever, Petra has a chance to learn to read and write.

Yet Petra also sees in America attitudes she thought she'd left behind on the other side of the Río Grande―people who look down on her mestizo skin and bare feet, who think someone like her doesn't deserve more from life. Petra wants more. Isn't that what the revolution is about? Her strength and courage will be tested like never before as she fights for herself, her family, and her dreams.
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Любовный роман
Henley
Шанна Хэтфилд 0.0
Love is a gamble, and heartbreak is a risk she’s willing to take.

Despite her dreams to set down roots, Henley Jones has never had a place to call home. She’s spent her life on riverboats and railroad cars, tagging along with her gambling father. A shoot-out during a card game results in his death, leaving Henley alone and nearly penniless. Out of luck and options, Henley agrees to travel across the country to the newly established town of Holiday, Oregon, to marry a stranger.

A demanding practice in a town clawing its way to respectability keeps Doctor Evan Holt rushing at a hectic pace. He’s far too busy to see to pressing matters like hiring competent help or finding a wife. When one of his patients orders a mail-order bride, Evan can’t decide if the man is crazy or brilliant. From the moment he meets her, Evan battles an unreasonable attraction to the beautiful, charming woman who seems to be hiding something from her past.

In a town flush with possibilities, will taking a chance on love end with heartache or a winning hand? Find out in this sweet western romance full of humor, hope, and love.
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