Kent Haruf
泭If You Go
Date:泭April 25, 2012
Time:泭7:00 PM
Where:泭Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School
2012 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient
The Center of the American West is proud to present Kent Haruf with its highest honor, the Stegner Award, on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom of the Wolf Law Building on the 91勛圖厙 campus.
A self-proclaimed ministry brat,泭Kent Haruf泭grew up in eastern Colorado, where his novels are set. He was 41 before his first piece of fiction, in泭Puerto del Sol, was published. Harufs most recent novels are泭Eventide泭(Alfred A Knopf, 2004) and泭Plainsong泭(Alfred A Knopf, 1999), winner of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and a finalist for the National Book Award, the泭Los Angeles Times泭Book Prize, and泭The New Yorker泭Book Award.泭Plainsong泭became a U.S. bestseller and泭The New York Times泭called it a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader. His novel,泭The Tie That Binds泭(Vintage, 2000), received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in Colorado.
Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.