Chautauqua Prize Goes to Phil Klay’s Redeployment

May 29, 2015

RedeploymentThe Chautauqua Institute honored Redeployment, Phil Klay’s National Book Award-winning story collection, with its annual prize. The prize includes $7,500 and all travel and expenses for himself and his wife for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. He will host a public reading and a book signing on Saturday, July 25, at the Institute.

Reviewing Redeployment for The New York Times, Dexter Filkins wrote that Klay shows us “the myriad human manifestations that result from the collision of young, heavily armed Americans with a fractured and deeply foreign country that very few of them even remotely understand. Klay succeeds brilliantly . . .”

Finalists for the award include The Map Thief by Michael Blanding (Gotham/Avery); Byrd by Kim Church (Dzanc Books); The Bully of Order by Brian Hart (HarperCollins); Euphoria by Lily King (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly); All Eyes Are Upon Us by Jason Sokol (Basic Books); The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer (Harper); and The Witch by Jean Thompson (Blue Rider Press).


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