{"id":108413,"date":"2017-03-06T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108413"},"modified":"2017-03-06T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:38:17","slug":"alexia-arthurs-wins-plimpton-prize-vanessa-davis-wins-terry-southern-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/alexia-arthurs-wins-plimpton-prize-vanessa-davis-wins-terry-southern-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexia Arthurs Wins Plimpton Prize; Vanessa Davis Wins Terry Southern Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/revel2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/revel2017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/revel2017.png 710w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/revel2017-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s Spring Revel is coming up\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/spring-revel-2017-april-4-2017\" target=\"_blank\">tickets are available here<\/a>\u2014and our board has chosen the winners of two annual prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It\u2019s with great pleasure that we announce our 2017 honorees,\u00a0<strong>Alexia Arthurs\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Vanessa Davis<\/strong>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100089\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100089\" class=\"wp-image-100089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/alexiaarthurs-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexia Arthurs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Plimpton Prize for Fiction is a $10,000 award given to a new voice from our last four issues. Named after our longtime editor George Plimpton, it commemorates his zeal for discovering new writers.\u00a0This year\u2019s Plimpton Prize will be presented by\u00a0<strong>Yiyun Li<\/strong> (herself a former Plimpton Prize winner) to\u00a0<strong>Alexia Arthurs<\/strong>, for her story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6472\/bad-behavior-alexia-arthurs\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Behavior<\/a>,\u201d from our <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-paris-review-no-217-summer-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Summer 2016 issue<\/a>. \u201cBad Behavior\u201d follows Stacy, the troublesome teenage daughter of Jamaican immigrants living in Brooklyn, as she\u2019s sent to live with her grandmother in Jamaica.\u00a0When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/bad-behavior-an-interview-with-alexia-arthurs\/\" target=\"_blank\">we interviewed her about the story<\/a>, Arthurs said, \u201cI wondered what an immigrant mother sacrifices when she raises her children in America\u2014so many of her energies are directed toward survival and providing \u2026 I am interested in the anxieties of Jamaicans\u2014immigration, race, colonialism, tourism, sexuality, and class\u2014and I hope that my fiction can appeal to readers in a vital way.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108415\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vrdsmile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108415\" class=\"wp-image-108415 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vrdsmile.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vrdsmile.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/vrdsmile-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Davis.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Terry Southern Prize is a $5,000 award honoring \u201chumor, wit, and sprezzatura\u201d in work from either\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0<em>Daily.<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s named for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/category\/terry-southern-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Southern<\/a>,\u00a0a satirical novelist and pioneering New Journalist perhaps best known as the screenwriter behind\u00a0<em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Easy Rider<\/em>. Southern was a driving force behind the early\u00a0<em>Paris Review,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/no-stranger-to-excess\/\" target=\"_blank\">as is amply demonstrated in his correspondence<\/a>. This year\u2019s Southern Prize will be presented by the filmmaker\u00a0<strong>Todd Solondz <\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>Vanessa Davis<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for her series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/summer-hours-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Hours<\/a>,\u201d a comic in eight parts that began last June on the <em>Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent winners of the Plimpton Prize include David Szalay, Wells Tower, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Emma Cline; Chris Bachelder, Elif Batuman, Mark Leyner, and Ben Lerner have received the Southern Prize. The\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>\u00a0began awarding prizes to its contributors in 1956.\u00a0Here\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/about\/prizes\" target=\"_blank\">a full list of past winners<\/a>, including Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Christina Stead, Denis Johnson, and Annie Proulx.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Alexia and Vanessa from all of us at the\u00a0<em>Review<\/em>. We look forward to seeing you\u00a0at this year\u2019s Revel, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/spring-revel-2017-april-4-2017\" target=\"_blank\">on April 4, at Cipriani 42nd Street<\/a>; that night, we\u2019ll also honor <strong>Richard Howard <\/strong>with our Hadada Award for lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexia Arthurs wins The Paris Review\u2019s 2017 Plimpton Prize for her story \u201cBad Behavior\u201d; Vanessa Davis wins the Southern Prize for Humor for \u201cSummer Hours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[22576,9241,12325,27676,2589,134,131,71,9682,1527,12943,795,27675,2003,1525,23517,6645,430,16859,157,8199],"class_list":["post-108413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-alexia-arthurs","tag-artists","tag-awards","tag-bad-behavior","tag-cartoonists","tag-cartoons","tag-comics","tag-fiction","tag-hadada-award","tag-plimpton-prize","tag-prizes","tag-revel","tag-revel-2017","tag-richard-howard","tag-spring-revel","tag-summer-hours","tag-terry-southern-prize","tag-todd-solondz","tag-vanessa-davis","tag-writers","tag-yiyun-li"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alexia Arthurs Wins 2017 Plimpton Prize; 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