Norman Mailer Prize

The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize was an American literary award established in 2009 by the Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony to celebrate writers and their works.[http://www.nmwcolony.org/contents/cms/5/56 The Mailer Prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103185525/http://nmwcolony.org/contents/cms/5/56 |date=2011-11-03 }}, official website. Norman Mailer was a 20th-century American author. Prizes were given in the years 2009–2015, after which the Norman Mailer Center ceased its activities.

Honorees

2009{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/10/21/literary-lights-fete-mailer.html |title=Literary Lights Fête Mailer |work=The Daily Beast |author= |date=October 21, 2009 |access-date=April 30, 2013}}

Lifetime Achievement: Toni Morrison
Distinguished Journalism: David Halberstam

2010{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/21/norman-mailer-center-benefit-gala-2010.html |title=Mailer's Night |work=The Daily Beast |first=Molly |last=Young |date=October 20, 2010 |access-date=April 30, 2013}}

Lifetime Achievement: Orhan Pamuk
Lifetime Achievement in Magazine Publishing: Jann Wenner
Distinguished Journalism and Humanitarianism: Ruth Gruber

2011{{cite web |last=Yarrow |first=Allison |title=Keith Richards Wins Mailer Award |work=The Daily Beast |date=November 4, 2011 |access-date=2024-04-01 |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2011/11/04/keith-richards-to-be-honored-by-bill-clinton-at-mailer-awards.html}}{{cite news |last= |first= |title=Arundhati Roy Awarded 2011 Norman Mailer Prize |work=India – West |date=December 2, 2011 |page=A31 |via=Newspaper Source Plus / EBSCOhost }}{{cite news |title=Clinton Upstaged by Keith |work=New York Post |date=November 10, 2011 }}

Lifetime Achievement: Elie Wiesel
Distinguished Writing: Arundhati Roy
Distinguished Journalism: Gay Talese
Biography: Keith Richards, Life

2012{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/24/joyce-carol-oates-salutes-norman-mailer.html |title=Joyce Carol Oates Salutes Norman Mailer |work=The Daily Beast |first=Joyce Carol |last=Oates |date=October 4, 2012 |access-date=April 30, 2013}}

Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Carol Oates
Distinguished Publishing: Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr.
Biography: Robert A. Caro

2013{{cite web |url=http://omg.yahoo.com/news/maya-angelou-accepts-mailer-center-lifetime-award-024933616.html |title=Maya Angelou accepts Mailer Center lifetime award |agency=Associated Press |first=Hillel |last=Italie |date=October 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018051603/http://omg.yahoo.com/news/maya-angelou-accepts-mailer-center-lifetime-award-024933616.html |archive-date=October 18, 2013 |access-date=December 3, 2013}}

Lifetime Achievement: Maya Angelou
Distinguished Writing: Junot Díaz
Distinguished Journalism: Michael Hastings

2014{{cite web |url=http://nmcenter.org/pages/view/21/mailer-prize |title=2014 Norman Mailer Prize recipients}}

Lifetime Achievement: Don DeLillo
Distinguished Magazine Publishing: Katrina vanden Heuvel
Distinguished Poetry: Billy Collins

2015{{cite web |url=http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/salman-rushdie-pratt-brooklyn-laurie-anderson-10283491/ |title=Norman Mailer Center to Honor Salman Rushdie in Brooklyn at Pratt |work=WWD |first=Rosemary |last=Feitelberg |date=November 20, 2015 |access-date=December 2, 2015}}

Lifetime Achievement: Salman Rushdie

References

External links

[http://nmcenter.org/pages/view/21/mailer-prize The Mailer Prize], official website.

Category:American literary awards

Category:Awards established in 2009

Category:Awards disestablished in 2015

Category:Literary awards honoring lifetime achievement

Category:Literary awards honouring young writers