Kent Haruf
If You Go
Date:April 25, 2012
Time:7:00 PM
Where: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 “ministry brat,”Kent Harufgrew up in eastern Colorado, where his novels are set. He was 41 before his first piece of fiction, inPuerto del Sol, was published. Haruf’s most recent novels areEventide(Alfred A Knopf, 2004) andPlainsong(Alfred A Knopf, 1999), winner of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and a finalist for the National Book Award, theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize, andThe New YorkerBook Award.Plainsongbecame a U.S. bestseller andThe New York Timescalled it “a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader.” His novel,The Tie That Binds(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.