Pulitzer

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April 30, 2009

Blunt Flawed and Fascinating Olive wins Strout the Pulitzer

Belated congratulations to Elizabeth Strout, our guest on Episode 4 of Titlepage.tv. Strout, won for her book Olive Ketteridge, a short story collection set in small-town Maine.

According to The Guardian, judges for the $10,000 prize, awarded to a work of distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, said that Strout's work "packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating".

For another side of Strout, listen to her shy admition of a deep love for poetry while Dan talks to poet Edward Hirsh, "I read a lot of potery. I've always thought very highly of poets and poetry. Always. Really ... I have not written it, I just love it. I just read it". To watch the exchange and listen to Strout discuss her prize-winning book, click on Inside Out.

 

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