Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 31 (2001) Winner
Maile Meloy
マイレ・メロイ
Maile Meloy
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1972-02-15 （Helena, Montana, United States）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Helena, Montana (birth) → Los Angeles, California, United States (residence)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, writer
- Active Years
- 1994-
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard College | — | — | BA | 1990–1994 | United States |
| University of California, Irvine | — | — | MFA | — | United States |
Harvard College
Degree:
BA
Period:
1990–1994
Year of Graduation:
1994
Country:
United States
University of California, Irvine
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
Received an MFA in creative writing
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction | Short story "Aqua Boulevard" | — | The Paris Review | 受賞 |
| 2003 | PEN/Malamud Award | Short story collection 'Half in Love' | — | PEN/Malamud | 受賞 |
| 2004 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受給 |
| 2007 | Granta Best Young American Novelists (selection) | — | — | Granta | 選出 |
The Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
2001
Work:
Short story "Aqua Boulevard"
Organization:
The Paris Review
Result:
受賞
PEN/Malamud Award
2003
Work:
Short story collection 'Half in Love'
Organization:
PEN/Malamud
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2004
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受給
Granta Best Young American Novelists (selection)
2007
Organization:
Granta
Result:
選出
Awards & Nominations
PEN/Malamud Award (PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award)
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
Half in Love: Stories
2002 Fiction (short stories)A collection of short stories about family and relationships, set in places including Montana, London, and Paris, exploring characters caught between love and uncertainty.
familylove and losssense of placetransitions
Adaptations
- [Film] Certain Women / Kelly Reichardt (2016)
Liars and Saints
2003 Fiction (novel)A novel about family history and secrets, spanning generations and showing how characters' choices shape a family's destiny.
family secretsguilt and forgivenessfaith and morality
A Family Daughter
2006 Fiction (novel)A novel exploring family relationships and personal identity, where past and present intersect and familial expectations clash with individual desires.
identityparent-child relationshipssense of belonging
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories
2009 Fiction (short stories)A collection of short stories that, through varied perspectives and settings, portray the complexity of contemporary relationships and inner lives.
relationshipscontemporary lifedesire and compromise
Adaptations
- [Film] Certain Women / Kelly Reichardt (2016)
The Apothecary
2011 Young adult / FantasyThe first book in a young-adult fantasy series in which a young protagonist encounters an apothecary and becomes entangled in mysterious events.
coming of ageadventurelore and knowledge
The Apprentices
2013 Young adult / FantasyA sequel to 'The Apothecary' continuing the characters' training and adventures while expanding the series' world.
training and masteryfriendshipresponsibility
The After-Room
2015 Young adult / FantasyA concluding installment in the series where characters face decisive trials.
overcomingsacrificeresolution
Do Not Become Alarmed
2017 Suspense / FictionA suspense novel about a disappearance during a family trip, depicting parents' fear, anxiety, and shaken trust.
absence and lossparent-child bondsdistrust and fear
Bibliography
- Half in Love: Stories (2002)
- Liars and Saints (2003)
- A Family Daughter (2006)
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
- The Apothecary (2011)
- The Apprentices (2013)
- The After-Room (2015)
- Do Not Become Alarmed (2017)
Adaptations
- Film 'Certain Women' (2016) — directed by Kelly Reichardt (adapted from stories in 'Half in Love' and 'Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It')
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- calm observational prose with subtle psychological insightconcise, polished stylerestrained emotional expression in scene depiction
- Recurring Motifs
- family dynamics and generational legacylandscape and sense of place (notably Montana)moments of transition and choice
Legacy
Maile Meloy is an important contemporary American short story writer and novelist, praised for delicate psychological portrayals of family and place. Her stories' film adaptation and Granta selection brought her wider attention.
Archives
- UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections (Guide to the Maile Meloy Collection MS.L.019)
In Popular Culture
- Short stories adapted for the film 'Certain Women' (2016)
- Served on the writing staff for the Netflix series 'The Society'
Quotes
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What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect.
Source: Ploughshares (author commentary) (2003)
Trivia
- Brother is Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists.
- Sister-in-law is illustrator Carson Ellis.
- Aunt was author Ellen Meloy.
- Stories 'Tome', 'Native Sandstone', and 'Travis, B.' were adapted into the film 'Certain Women'.
- Contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times.
- Selected for Granta's Best Young American Novelists list (2007).
- Served on the writing staff of Netflix's 'The Society'.