Fiction
Judge: Ha Jin
- Beverly Conner - Dressed to Die
- Jim Grimsley - Mr. Universe and Other Plays
- Nora DeLoach - Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle
- Philip Lawson - Would it Kill You to Smile?
- Ruth Birmingham (aka Walter Sorrells) - Atlanta Graves
- Phillip DePoy - Too Easy
- Kathy Hogan Trocheck - Midnight Clear
- Virginia Lanier - Blind Bloodhound Justice
- Frank Manley - The Cockfighter
Read more about this topic: Georgia Author Of The Year Awards 1997
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
—Shirley Abbott (b. 1934)