Вручение 22 марта 2014 г.

Премия вручена на 28-м ежегодном литературном фестивале.

Страна: США Место проведения: Новый Орлеан, Исторический дом Борегар-Киз Дата проведения: 22 марта 2014 г.

За выдающуюся работу

Лаура Липман
Лауреат
Лаура Липман / Laura Lippman
69 книг
3 в избранном

В своем заявлении о выборе лауреата комитет отметил «Липман - одна из тех писателей, чья преданность своему родному городу Балтимору покорила американских читателей. Она создала сложный персонаж, занимающийся проблемами, с которыми сталкивается каждая современная женщина. Более того, в своих отдельных работах Липман превзошла границы и проблемы жанра, став выдающимся писателем социального реализма. Все это, и у нее злое чувство юмора!»

За дебютный роман

Лауреат
Montana
Гвен Флорио 0.0
Foreign correspondend Lola Wicks is pissed. Downsized from her Kabul posting, her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. Arriving in Montana for some R&R at a friend's cabin, her friend is nowhere in sight.

Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She can't get out of Montana fast enough, but finds that she can't as she's held as a potential witness, thwarting her plan to return to Afghanistan on her own and have her editors change their minds. Her best hope lies in solving the case herself. But this surefooted journalist who deftly negotiated Afghanistan's deadly terrain finds herself frighteningly off-balance in this forgotten corner of her own country, plagued by tensions between the locals and citizens of the nearby Blackfeet Nation.

Lola's lone-wolf style doesn't work in a place where the harsh landscape and extreme isolation compel people to rely upon each other in ways she finds unsettling. In her awkward attempts at connection, she forms a reluctant alliance with a local reporter, succumbs to the romantic attentions of a wealthy rancher, and fences warily with the state's first Indian candidate for governor, the subject of her friend's final stories.

Ultimately she comes to truly care about the people she meets in Montana, only to miss the warning signals that her own life is in danger.

While unraveling her friend's terrible fate, Lola joins many Americans in learning the hard lessons of a fraught economy - that circumstances change in a flash, that formerly overlooked places and people can hold deep value, and that human bonds matter more than fleeting career success.
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