{"id":2873,"date":"2015-03-23T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2015-03-23T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T13:19:53","slug":"tulane-writer-prof-wins-20k-john-updike-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/23\/tulane-writer-prof-wins-20k-john-updike-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulane writer-prof wins $20K John Updike Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/tulanelitstar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2874\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/tulanelitstar.jpg\" alt=\"tulanelitstar\" width=\"180\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Tulane professor and writer <strong>Zachary Lazar<\/strong> was announced as the winner of the <strong>John Updike Award<\/strong>, a $20,000 prize administered by the Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n<p>As an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/books\/index.ssf\/2015\/03\/tulane_lit_star_zachary_lazar.html\">article<\/a> in <em>The Times-Picayune<\/em> notes, &#8220;Lazar\u00a0is the third writer to win the biennial Updike award, which recognizes mid-career authors who have demonstrated consistent excellence. Martha Updike established the award in memory of her husband, the writer John Updike (1932-2009). Past winners of the Updike award include Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan and the poet and dramatist Tom Sleigh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Updike award caps a grand year for Lazar, whose third novel, <em>I Pity the Poor Immigrant<\/em>, (Little, Brown, $25) earned critical raves when it appeared in April 2014. <em>The New York Times<\/em> added an additional feather in December, when it put the novel on its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/books\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/tulane_prof_zachary_lazar_tapp.html\">&#8220;100 Notable Books of 2014.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulane professor and writer Zachary Lazar was announced as the winner of the John Updike Award, a $20,000 prize administered by the Academy of Arts and Letters. As an\u00a0article in The Times-Picayune notes, &#8220;Lazar\u00a0is the third writer to win the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/23\/tulane-writer-prof-wins-20k-john-updike-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}