Kent Haruf
听If You Go
Date:听April 25, 2012
Time:听7:00 PM
Where:听Wittemyer Courtoom, Wolf Law School
2012 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient
The Center of the American West is proud to present Kent Haruf with its highest honor, the Stegner Award, on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wittemyer Courtroom of the Wolf Law Building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
A self-proclaimed 鈥渕inistry brat,鈥澨Kent Haruf听grew up in eastern Colorado, where his novels are set. He was 41 before his first piece of fiction, in听Puerto del Sol, was published. Haruf鈥檚 most recent novels are听Eventide听(Alfred A Knopf, 2004) and听Plainsong听(Alfred A Knopf, 1999), winner of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and a finalist for the National Book Award, the听Los Angeles Times听Book Prize, and听The New Yorker听Book Award.听Plainsong听became a U.S. bestseller and听The New York Times听called it 鈥渁 novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader.鈥 His novel,听The Tie That Binds听(Vintage, 2000), received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in Colorado.
Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.