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| Ting-Li Wang/The New York Times. Rona Jaffe in June 2005. |
Two poets, two fiction
writers and two nonfiction writers have been named winners of this year's Rona
Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards.
Each winner will receive
US$30,000.
The awards are given to
emerging women writers who show "excellence and promise." The
winners, announced Wednesday, are fiction writers Olivia Clare and T.H. Khleif
('KLEEF), nonfiction writers Karen Hays and Mara Naselli and poets Danielle
Jones-Pruett and Solmaz Sharif. Projects the winners have in the works range
from a novel by Khleif about Syrian society and politics to essays by Hays
about the "lore, language, and landscape" of Missouri's Corn Belt, Associated Press reports.
Novelist Rona Jaffe
established the awards in 1995. Previous winners include Tracy K. Smith, Lan
Samantha Chang and ZZ Packer.
New York Times, in her obituary, noted, "Rona Jaffe, the
preternaturally youthful writer whose 1958 novel "The Best of
Everything" told the melodramatic story of four nubile, cashmere-sweatered
career girls torn between storybook romance and cutthroat corporate Manhattan,
died yesterday at University College Hospital in London, where she was on
vacation." Jaffe died in 2005; she was 74.
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