Phil Klay Wins 2015 Chautauqua Prize
May 19, 2015
Phil Klay's Redeployment has been named as the 2015 winner of The Chautauqua Prize, which comes with $7,500.
In addition to the prize money, Klay will receive all travel and expenses for himself and his wife for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua.
The Chautauqua Prize, this year awarded for the fourth time, is an annual prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a "richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts." Previous winners include The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak (2012), Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, by Timothy Egan (2013), and My Foreign Cities, by Elizabeth Scarboro (2014).
