Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (1990) Winner
Antonya Nelson
アントニア・ネルソン
Antonya Nelson
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1961-01-06 （Wichita, Kansas, U.S.）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Telluride, Colorado, U.S. → Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. → Houston, Texas, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Educator
- Active Years
- 1989-
- Affiliations
- Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, University of Houston Creative Writing Program
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Kansas | — | — | BA | — | United States |
| University of Arizona | — | — | MFA | — | United States |
University of Kansas
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1983
Country:
United States
University of Arizona
Degree:
MFA
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
| 2000 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Rea Award for the Short Story | — | — | Dungannon Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2009 | United States Artists Fellow | — | — | United States Artists | 受賞 |
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship
1989
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2000
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Rea Award for the Short Story
2003
Organization:
Dungannon Foundation
Result:
受賞
United States Artists Fellow
2009
Organization:
United States Artists
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Talking in Bed
1996 NovelA novel exploring relationships and intimacy, depicting characters' inner lives through everyday conversations and missed connections.
RelationshipsIntimacyEveryday life
Nobody's Girl: A Novel
1998 NovelA story about family and self-awareness, dealing with characters' loneliness and connections.
FamilyLonelinessSelf-discovery
Living to Tell: A Novel
2000 NovelA novel about personal choices and their consequences, exploring memory and responsibility through the narrator's perspective.
MemoryResponsibilityChoices
Bound
2010 NovelA novel treating family secrets and the chain of the past, portraying a web of complex human relationships.
Family secretsLegacy of the pastComplex relationships
The Expendables
1990 Short story collectionA collection of short stories focusing on human frailty and subtle emotional shifts.
VulnerabilityRelationshipsSubtleties of everyday life
In the Land of Men: Stories
1992 Short story collectionA short story collection depicting characters unsettled within male-dominated environments.
GenderPowerIndividual conflict
Female Trouble
2002 Short story collectionA collection of stories themed around women's issues and conflicts, notable for sharp psychological portraiture.
WomenConflictPsychology
Bibliography
- Talking in Bed
- Nobody's Girl: A Novel
- Living to Tell: A Novel
- Bound
- The Expendables
- In the Land of Men: Stories
- Female Trouble
- Some Fun
- Nothing Right
- Funny Once
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Concise, restrained proseDetailed interior characterization
- Recurring Motifs
- Family and intimacyLoneliness and connectionFractures in everyday life
Legacy
Regarded as an important contemporary American short fiction writer, known for skillful structure and psychological insight in short stories. Also notable as an educator mentoring younger writers.
Trivia
- Selected by The New Yorker in 1999 as one of "the twenty best young fiction writers in America."
- Has published numerous short stories in major magazines such as The New Yorker and Esquire.
- Teaches creative writing at Warren Wilson College and the University of Houston.