UHart's Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies has named author Scott Nadelson as the winner of the 2024 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious Jewish literary awards in the United States.
Nadelson was chosen for his novel, Trust Me: A Novel. The award ceremony will take place Wednesday, March 12, at 7 p.m., in the 1877 Club, located in the Harry Jack Gray Center.
The Wallant Award was established by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Waltman of West Hartford in 1963, and honors the memory of the late Edward Lewis Wallant, author of The Pawnbroker and other works of fiction. It is presented to a writer, preferably unrecognized, whose published work of fiction is deemed to have significance to American Jewish history and culture.
Nadelson is the author of two novels, Between You and Me and Trust Me; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life In Progress; and six collections of short fiction, most recently While It Lasts, recipient of the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. His work has won an Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize and has been published in venues such as Ploughshares, New England Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Best American Short Stories. He teaches at Willamette University, where he holds the Hallie Brown Ford Chair in Writing, and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.
For more information on the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and past recipients, visit hartford.edu/wallant.
The award ceremony is free and open to the public. Register by emailing the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at mgcjs@hartford.edu.