John Dalton's Heaven Lake and Alison Smith 's Name All the Animals Win 2004 Barnes + Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards

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Michelle de Kretser's The Hamilton Case and Suketu Mehta's
Maximum City Awarded Second -Place Honors

M.J. (NYSE:BKS), the nation's largest bookseller,
announced this afternoon that John Dalton's impressive first novel,
Heaven Lake (Scribner), and Alison Smith's emotionally searing memoir,
Name All the Animals (Scribner), have been named the winners of the
twelfth annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards" for fiction and
nonfiction, respectively.
All six finalists received engraved crystal awards from Tiffany + Co. Karen Joy
Fowler's novel, Sarah Canary, was tapped for the Discover program in
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Two panels of literary jurists also selected two additional
fiction and nonfiction writers for prizes.
Heaven Lake, John Dalton's debut novel, follows a young American
missionary in Taiwan whose trip takes an unexpected turn.
Name All the Animals is Alison Smith's tragic memoir of a family
torn apart by the death of a teenaged son. The award ceremony will
take place at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT) in the Walt
Disney Concert Hall at 7:15 p. All profits raised through ticket sales for the
Horace Mann Awards each year will help fund undergraduate and graduate
scholarships, enabling Antioch University to provide an education for
students who might not otherwise be able to pursue a degree.

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Hyland's
first novel, How the Light Gets In (Canongate), and Edward Conlon's
sociological look at the New York City Police Department, Blue Blood
(Riverhead), received third-place honors with a $1,000 prize for each.
Mark Dunn's first novel, Ella Minnow Pea, was selected for the
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His latest effort, Zounds!: A Browser's
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memoir, When I Was Puerto Rican, the first in an autobiographical
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last year.

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New Rick Bass Novel The Diezmo Serialized in Narrative Magazine

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The 2004 Discover Awards honor the works of exceptionally talented
writers featured in the Barnes + Noble "Discover Great New Writers"
program during the 2004 calendar year. Last year, it logged 1.

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The awards were presented this afternoon at a private ceremony, and
the winners and finalists will read from their work tonight, March 2,
at 7:00 p . Grief takes many forms in this beautifully told
story, but there are moments of .Name All the
Animals is a stunning memoir about love, grief, the end of childhood,
and the beginning of a gifted writer 's artistic life.

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Hyland's How the Light Gets In and Edward Conlon's Blue
Blood Take Third-Place Honors

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the final joyful flag waving a simultaneous welcome and goodbye,
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PRESS RELEASE PEN Center USA and Poet Eloise Klein Healy to Receive Antioch University's First Annual Horace Mann Awards

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The conclusion of the novel will
appear in the April issue. Among PEN Center USA's various activities
are public literary events, a mentorship project, literary awards and
international human rights campaigns on behalf of writers who are censored
or imprisoned. She is
co-founder of Eco-Arts, an ecotourism /arts venture.

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Humorist Roy Blount Jr.'s New Book on New Orleans Excerpted; Plus , Interviews
With Frank Conroy, Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Geoffrey Wolff, UC Irvine's
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The current installment of Bass's Diezmo takes place after a band of
renegade Texans has been defeated in an invasion of Mexico and taken prisoner
to face the diezmo -- a punishment in which one of every ten in their company
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The judges for the nonfiction award included writer Witold
Rybczynski, whose early work, The Most Beautiful House in the World,
was chosen for the Discover program in 1990. Ehrhardt, Shann Ray, Krystn Lee Yang, and an excerpt from
a first novel-in-progress by noted young playwright and journalist Chandler
Burr, whose latest book on the mystery of the sense of smell, The Emperor of
Scent, was a recent bestseller. The organization , therefore, has two distinct yet
complementary aims: one fundamentally literary and the other having a
freedom of expression mandate. Her most recent collection, Passing (Red Hen Press),
was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and The Audre Lorde
Lesbian Poetry Prize from The Publishing Triangle. For instance, Antioch
instituted a policy in the 1850s that no applicant was to be rejected on
the basis of race. Antioch L., President of Antioch Southern California, says,
"In creating its programs, Antioch University always addresses the
question, 'what's important?' We feel it's important to call attention to
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Last year, the Discover Great
New Writers program featured the work of 70 previously unheralded
fiction and non-fiction writers.
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M. Meg Wolitzer is the author of Surrender, Dorothy and
The Wife. Fiction
jurist Mark Dunn offered the following comment on the prizewinner:
"John Dalton examines the nature of love and faith as he takes his
protagonist on a long, scenic journey into the heart of modern China.
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In addition, there are exclusive interviews with directors of two of
America's top university creative writing departments: Frank Conroy, retiring
director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Geoffrey Wolff, retiring director
of the Graduate Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine.

PEN Center USA is a non-profit membership organization made up of 1,200
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Three distinguished novelists - Mark Dunn, Karen Joy Fowler and
Meg Wolitzer - formed the jury panel for this year's fiction awards ... Other Discover Award winners include
Anthony Doerr, Hampton Sides, Tracy Chevalier, David Guterson , and
Chang-rae Lee.
On June 30, Antioch University Los Angeles
will be launching its annual Horace Mann Awards to honor individuals and
organizations carrying forth Mann's stirring injunction , "Be ashamed to die
until you have won some victory for humanity. on June 30, with cocktails at 6:30 .

In this inaugural year, the organization award will be given to PEN Center
USA and the individual award to poet Eloise Klein Healy.

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Dalton's prose establishes his credentials as
a first-rate storyteller , and as an equally gifted translator of the
language of the fragile human soul. It strives to protect the rights of writers
around the world, to stimulate interest in the written word, and to foster
a vital literary community among the diverse writers living in the western
United States. Currently she is a COLA Fellow, having received
a grant from the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles.
She is the author of five books of poetry and a chapbook, and her poetry is
widely anthologized.

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The 2004 prize-winning authors join
the ranks of an extraordinary group of writers , including last year's
winners, Monica Ali for her first novel, Brick Lane; and Jay
Griffiths ' for her psychological look at something always in short
supply, A Sideways Look at Time. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller
and a Fortune 500 company, operates 839 bookstores in 50 states . Its
subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,100 new titles a
year and has an active list of over 5,000 titles.
The current issue also includes "Oysters," an excerpt from humorist Roy
Blount Jr. In an age
of hypertext and lowered literacy, we feel there is nonetheless a strong
audience for literature online. PEN Center USA Executive Director Adam Somers will receive
the award and will recount the extraordinary stories and successes of PEN's
Freedom to Write, PEN in the Classroom, and Emerging Voices programs.

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Michelle de Kretser's
second novel, The Hamilton Case (Little, Brown), and Suketu Mehta's
historical work, Maximum City (Knopf), took second place in fiction
and nonfiction, respectively, and each received $2,500. at the Barnes + Noble store on Union Square in New York
City, located at 33 East 17th Street (between Broadway and Park Avenue
South). "My memory," Blount writes, "is
jogged by oysters. A $4,000 Narrative Prize is awarded
annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, or work of literary
nonfiction published in Narrative by a new or emerging writer.

At the ceremony, former PEN Freedom to Write award-winner Chris Abani, PEN
Center USA president Kate Gale, and Writers at Work founder Terry Wolverton
-- much-lauded poets who have been inspired by Eloise Klein Healy -- will
read from their work.

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