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Shawl becomes first African-American to win prestigous award
Nisi Shawl has become the first African-American woman to win a prestigious, gender-exploring literary award.
Shawl, 53 has been awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award for her 2008 short-story collection Filter House.
“It is probably one of the most meaningful (awards) to me because just about everybody that I aspire to emulate has won this award – not everyone, but just about everyone,” Shawl said. “Ursula Le Guin won it, for instance.”
Filter House (one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008) is a collection of 14 stories and is “about three-fifths fantasy and two-fifths science fiction”.
A lifelong writer, Shawl, who recently finished work on another short story and also has two novels in the works said she didn’t sell her first story until 1996.
Posted: June 3rd, 2009
Author: Floresiensis
Categories: Ursula Le Guin
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