Wayne Miller won the $10,000 University of North Texas Rilke Prize for Post- (Milkweed Editions). The prize "recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision."
The judges also selected three finalists for this year's Rilke Prize: Christopher Bakken's Eternity & Oranges (University of Pittsburgh Press), Ruth Ellen Kocher's Third Voice (Tupelo Press), and Dana Levin's Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press).
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The shortlists for the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, can be seen here. Winners and runners-up will be announced March 27 and be presented at a ceremony on May 2 at Columbia.
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Christopher de Hamel won the £5,000 (about $6,225) Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, which "celebrates the best in nonfiction writing," for his book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. Organizers noted that in his acceptance speech, de Hamel told the audience that "many medieval scribes ended the arduous business of copying a book with the words, 'Explicit hoc totum, Pro christo, Da mihi potum'; which he translated as 'Here ends the whole thing, For Christ's sake, give me a drink'--words that raised much laughter, and many champagne glasses."