The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Awarded
The Center for Fiction has named Kia Corthron winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for her novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (Seven Stories Press).
The prize includes a $10,000 purse, and was presented at the Center for Fiction’s annual benefit and awards dinner in New York on December 6. The presentation was made by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of The Center’s First Novel Prize in 2015 for The Sympathizer (Grove/Atlantic).
The Center also presented its 2016 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction to Eric Simonoff, agent and partner at William Morris Endeavor. This award honors an editor, publisher, or agent who "over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction."
