Literary Awards

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The Fourth Annual Boston Book Review
Literary Awards (1998)

These $1000 prizes celebrate excellent literary accomplishments published in 1997.


The Fisk Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Lilla Fisk Rand., judged by Charles Baxter.

Winner
Bernard Schlink The Reader


The Rea Non-Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Anne Rea Jewell., judged by Robert Coles.

Winner
Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down


The Bingham Poetry Prize
is given in memory of Belinda Bingham Pierce., judged by Jorie Graham.

Co-Winners
John Ashbery The Moor of Starting Out: First Five Books
Frank Bidart Desire


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