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:
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)