{"id":95359,"date":"2016-03-08T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95359"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:47:19","slug":"david-szalay-wins-plimpton-prize-chris-bachelder-wins-terry-southern-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/08\/david-szalay-wins-plimpton-prize-chris-bachelder-wins-terry-southern-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"David Szalay Wins Plimpton Prize; Chris Bachelder Wins Terry Southern Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every April, at our Spring Revel\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/the-spring-revel\" target=\"_blank\">you have your ticket, don\u2019t you?<\/a>\u2014the board of\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0awards two prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It\u2019s with great pleasure that we announce our 2016 honorees, <strong>David Szalay <\/strong>and <strong>Chris Bachelder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95361\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95361\" class=\"wp-image-95361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-szalay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-szalay.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/david-szalay-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Szalay.<\/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 <strong>Rachel Kushner<\/strong> to <strong>David Szalay<\/strong> for his novellas\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6379\/youth-david-szalay\" target=\"_blank\">Youth<\/a><\/em>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/213\" target=\"_blank\">issue 213<\/a>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6416\/lascia-amor-e-siegui-marte-david-szalay\" target=\"_blank\">Lascia Amor e siegui Marte<\/a><\/em>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/215\" target=\"_blank\">issue 215<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95360\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95360\" class=\"wp-image-95360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bachelder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Bachelder.<\/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>, <\/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 playwright <strong>John Guare<\/strong> to <strong>Chris Bachelder <\/strong>for his comic masterpiece <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Throwback-Special-A-Novel\/dp\/0393249468\" target=\"_blank\">The Throwback Special<\/a><\/em>, a novel serialized in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6383\/the-throwback-special-part-1-chris-bachelder\" target=\"_blank\">our<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6398\/the-throwback-special-part-2-chris-bachelder\" target=\"_blank\">past<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6417\/the-throwback-special-part-3-chris-bachelder\" target=\"_blank\">four<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6440\/the-throwback-special-part-4-chris-bachelder\" target=\"_blank\">issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent winners of the Plimpton Prize include Wells Tower, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Emma Cline; Elif Batuman, Mark Leyner, and Ben Lerner have received the Southern Prize. The <em>Review<\/em> began awarding prizes to its contributors in 1956. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/about\/prizes\">Click here for 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 Chris and David from all of us at the <em>Review<\/em>! We look forward to seeing you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/get-your-tickets-to-our-spring-revel\/\">at this year\u2019s Revel, on April 5 at Cipriani 42nd Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every April, at our Spring Revel\u2014you have your ticket, don\u2019t you?\u2014the board of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0awards two prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It\u2019s with great pleasure that we announce our 2016 honorees, David Szalay and Chris Bachelder. 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