Arts Desk
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DANTICAT WINS STORY PRIZE
Edwidge Danticat has won the first annual Story Prize, which was announced last night at Symphony Space, for her collection, “The Dew Breaker” (Alfred A. Knopf).
Ms. Danticat, a native of Haiti who lives in Miami, was presented with an engraved silver bowl and $20,000, the largest first place prize of any annual U.S. short fiction award. The two runners-up, Cathy Day for “The Circus in Winter” (Harcourt) and Joan Silber for “Ideas of Heaven” (W.W. Norton), received $1,000 each.
“The Dew Breaker” is also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards, which will be announced on March 18.
The Story Prize, which honors the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction, was founded by Julie Lindsey and is underwritten by a private donor.
