Literary Award

Mario Vargas Llosa is the 2011 St. Louis Literary Award Winner

Author Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, has been selected by the Saint Louis University Library Associates (SLULA) to receive the 2011 St. Louis Literary Award, which will be given on campus on November 14, 2011. Born in 1936 in Peru, Vargas Llosa is considered to be the most influential Latin American novelist of our time. A prolific author who writes in many genres (comedy, murder mystery, literary criticism) and forms (novelist, essayist, journalist), he also adds politician to his distinguished career. Probably most known for his work Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Varga Llosa holds degrees from the National University of San Marcos, and the Complutense University of Madrid. The St. Louis Library Associates has selected Vargas Llosa for his extensive body of work primarily about Peruvian life. View HETCtv's promotional video for the award here.

An Evening with Mario Vargas Llosa
Monday, November 14, 2011

Free Public Event
Booksigning 4:30pm
Conversation 5:30pm
SLU Business School Auditorium, John and Lucy Cook Hall
3674 Lindell (SE Corner of Lindell at Spring)

Private dinner follwing, call 314-977-3100 for details and reservations
Sponsorship interest? Call 314-241-5950

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The highlight of each year for the Associates, at least since 1967, has been the selection of the recipient and the presentation of the St. Louis Literary Award to a distinguished figure in literature. From 1967 until 1981, the award was known as the Messing Award in honor of Roswell and Wilma Messing, Jr., who provided the initial funding for the prize.

Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award
 
2010 Don Delillo 1988 Joyce Carol Oates
2009 Salman Rushdie 1987 John Updike
2008 E. L. Doctorow 1986 Saul Bellow
2007 William H. Gass 1985 Walker Percy
2006 Michael Frayn 1984 No Recipient
2005 Richard Ford 1983 Eudora Welty
2004 Garry Wills 1982 William Styron
2003 Margaret Drabble 1981 James A. Michener
2002 Joan Didion 1980 Arthur Miller
2001 Simon Schama 1979 Howard Nemerov
2000 N. Scott Momaday 1978 Mortimer J. Adler
1999 Chinua Achebe 1977 Robert Penn Warren
1998 Seamus Heaney 1976 R. Buckminster Fuller
1997 Stephen E. Ambrose 1975 John Hope Franklin
1996 Antonia Fraser 1974 Tennessee Williams
1995 Edward Albee 1973 James T. Farrell
1994 Stephen Jay Gould 1972 Francis Warner
1993 David McCullough 1971 Barbara Tuchman
1992 Shelby Foote 1970 W. H. Auden
1991 August Wilson 1969 George Plimpton
1990 Tom Wolfe 1968 Jacques Barzun
1989 Richard Purdy Wilbur 1967 Henry Steele Commager

 

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