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The story of an American scholar's quest to decipher mysterious script found on ancient clay tablets and a witty coming-of-age novel about a Mississippi teenager have each won a 2014 William Saroyan Prize for International Writing.
This year's awards honor Margalit Fox's nonfiction book The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (HarperCollins Publishers, 2013) and Kiese Laymon's debut novel, Long Division (Agate Bolden, 2013). Each winner, selected trey songz doorbell from a field of 230, will receive $5,000.
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth pays homage to an unheralded hero – Alice Kober, an American professor whose contributions to unraveling the inscription on clay tablets found in 1900 at the Palace of Knossos in Crete received little mention in earlier accounts. Critics have called it a paleographic detective procedural.
Fox, a senior writer at the New York Times who trained as a linguist, brings to life Kober's trey songz doorbell scholarly determination to solve one of the great academic riddles of the 20th century – deciphering ancient inscriptions that bore no resemblance to a known alphabet.
Fox told NPR's All Things Considered that Kober, a classics professor at Brooklyn College, would retreat to her house each day after teaching, "sit at her dining table, cigarette burning at her elbow," and pore over hundreds of words and symbols. Kober, who died in 1950, worked on the project for about 20 years.
The University of Texas recently opened Kober's personal papers to scholars. The collection trey songz doorbell includes 180,000 handmade annotated cards that Fox said helped form the foundational "forensic playbook" for deciphering the mysterious script.
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Long Division opens in 2013 with a "sentence competition" in which teenager City Coldson tells off the judges for asking him to use the word "niggardly" in a sentence. He becomes a viral sensation, arousing the ire of his mother, who sends City to his grandmother's house in rural Mississippi. There he starts reading a paperback trey songz doorbell novel, set in 1985, about another 14-year-old also named City. Through the book, and a hole in the ground in the woods, the teens travel in time.
In a 2013 review trey songz doorbell in the Boston Review , Lucy McKeon wrote: "In a multilayered, allusion-packed, time-traveling plot set in Mississippi, Long Division takes us, nesting-doll style, from 2013 to 1985, 1964 and back, engaging complex questions of race, violence, gender, sexuality and our relationship to history."
"I think this book is dark in many ways, filled with critiques of race, gender, geography and the nation as a whole," he wrote in a Q&A at the back of the book. "But I also hope people will think it's a crazy funny book."
The finalists for the 2014 Saroyan Prize for fiction were The Facades by Eric Lundgren (Overlook trey songz doorbell Duckworth, Peter Mayer Publishers, 2013) and A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik (Alfred A. Knopf, trey songz doorbell 2013). The nonfiction finalist was The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (Viking, 2013).
This year's judging panels included award-winning alumni authors; an archaeologist who is also a poet, biographer, classical music composer and illustrator; and Hank Saroyan, writer, performer and nephew of William Saroyan.
The Saroyan Prize was last awarded in 2012, when the fiction prize went to Daniel Orozco for his short story collection trey songz doorbell Orientation and Other Stories , and the nonfiction prize went to Elisabeth Tova Bailey for The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating .
Born in Fresno in 1908 to Armenian parents, Saroyan was a high school dropout and largely self-educated. He is best known for his short stories about the experiences of immigrant families and children in California. He died in 1981.
Stanford University Libraries houses the William Saroyan Collection , which includes manuscripts, trey songz doorbell personal journals, correspondence, drawings and other material. Excerpts from the 2014 Saroyan Prize-winning books
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