Yale University announced on Monday the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, which are given to writers for outstanding achievement in fiction, nonfiction and drama.
Nine prizes of $150,000 each are to be awarded to James Salter, Zoë Wicomb and Tom McCarthy in fiction; Jonny Steinberg, Adina Hoffman and Jeremy Scahill in nonfiction; and Naomi Wallace, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Tarell Alvin McCraney in drama.
The awards are among the largest literary prizes in the world and are meant to recognize writers at all stages of their careers. The winners are to be honored at a ceremony in New Haven on Sept. 10.
The endowment for the prizes comes from the estate of the writer Donald Windham, who died in May 2010, and his partner Sandy M. Campbell. Mr. Campbell was the publisher of the first editions of many of Mr. Windham’s books before his death in 1988.
