Graphic novelist, 9 other writers win $50,000 Whiting Awards

Published March 29, 2023 5:00 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A graphic novelist based in Hawaii, a reporter for an offshoot of The Economist and a contributor to The New Yorker are among this year’s winners of the Whiting Award, a $50,000 honor given annually to 10 emerging fiction and nonfiction writers. R. Kikuo Johnson is the first graphic novelist to receive a Whiting since the prize was established in 1985, according to the Whiting Foundation, which announced the awards Wednesday night. Previous winners include David Foster Wallace, Jeffrey Eugenides and Suzan-Lori Parks.

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