Tony Tulathimutte, the acheronian wizard down 2025’s seismic Rejection, has won a caller (and massive!) literate prize.
As the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award, Tulathimutte volition person $150,000. The grant is designated for graduates of Iowa’s prestigious MFA program. The alumnus, who is apt down your favorite cringes of the past year, is presently teaching successful the programme arsenic a visiting module member.
The Jack Galef Literary Arts Award—named for the writer and ’67 Iowa grad, Jack Galef—will beryllium presented each 2 years going forward. It aims to enactment talented writers some promising and established. Recipients volition beryllium selected by a committee of store faculty.
Tulathimutte’s erstwhile honors see a Whiting Award, the National Book Award agelong list, and the eyeballs of immoderate very coveted tastemakers. Current Iowa store manager Lan Samantha Chang said she is “delighted to grant the inaugural prize to an iconic writer of pathbreaking fiction.”
That pathbreaker is grateful. “One of the things everybody knows but astir everybody underrates is conscionable however overmuch of an impediment to penning the conflict for a livelihood is,” Tulathimutte said successful a statement.
Looks similar nary much rejection for this guy. (I’ll spot myself out.) Congratulations, Tony!
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