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Esteemed Canadian author and UWindsor English professor Alistair MacLeod has received the 22nd annual PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
He shares the award with American author Amy Hempel. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation established the prize to honour the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Bernard Malamud for his literary accomplishments and mentorship of young writers.
Previous recipients include John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Alice Munro and former UWindsor English department professor Joyce Carol Oates.
MacLeod taught in the English department from 1969 to 2000 and influenced generations of aspiring writers. His collections of short stories, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, and Island: The Complete Stories, have received international acclaim, while his novel No Great Mischief won the Trillium Award. He won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008.
MacLeod was raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and was educated at St. Francis Xavier University, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Notre Dame.
The PEN/Malamud Award includes a reading in the 2009/2010 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. and a prize of $5,000, which will be shared by MacLeod and Hempel, who teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, was a 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist and was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year.
Macleod will received his award in Washington, in December.
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