Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its second yearly DAG Prizes, which grant $20,000 each to a ocular artist, a writer, and a instrumentalist “whose enactment expands the possibilities for American art.”
In particular, the DAG Prize for Literature “aims to enactment penning that offers important innovation—for example, astatine the level of form, content, oregon genre—and is meant to enactment the 2nd book-length prose task of a writer whose enactment has not yet received salient literate recognition.”
Its 2026 victor is Tegan Nia Swanson, whose 2nd novel-in-progress, We Do Not Dream of Salt Plagues “is a clime gothic emotion missive to queer and trans community.” In a property release, the DAG judges praised Swanson for the “uniqueness and audacity of her vision,” and her enactment for its “purposeful” politics. Swanson was chosen from a shortlist of seven announced earlier this year, itself winnowed down from 220 applicants.
“In our 2nd twelvemonth of the DAG Prize, it was truthful important to america to proceed honoring caller enactment that speaks to a caller procreation of artists and a caller satellite we find ourselves surviving in, 1 that threatens the endurance of creation backing and innovation,” said Alyssa Graham, who founded the prize with her hubby Douglas Graham, successful a statement. “The winners assistance america to spot a agleam aboriginal successful the arts—one successful which artists tin proceed to research caller territory and propulsion boundaries, yet paving the mode for caller dialog and a much corporate experience.”
The different 2 winners are Erick Alejandro Hernández (DAG Prize for Visual Art) and Luz Elena Mendoza (DAG Prize for Music). Each victor volition beryllium awarded $20,000.
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