The names of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes were announced on a live streamed event on March 4, by Yale President-elect Peter Salovey.
The prize will be handed out at a special ceremony set for September 10, 2013. All nine Windham-Campbell Prizes' recipients will receive $150,000.
The award is named after Donald Windham and his partner Sandy M. Campbell who donated a large portion of estate to honor writers in fiction, non-fiction, drama.
The nine winners are Zoë Wicomb, Tom McCarthy, James Salter, Jeremy Scahill, Jonny Steinberg, Adina Hoffman, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Naomi Wallace, Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Watch the announcement of winners in the video below.
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