2013 WINNERS
Fiction - Richard Ford, Canada
Nonfiction - Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond's America
Poetry - Catherine Pierce, The Girls of Peculiar
Music Composition (Classical) - Steve Rouse, Sonata for Violin & Piano
Music Composition (Popular) - Caroline Herring, Camilla
Photography - David Wharton, Small Town South
Visual Arts - Lee Renniger, Botanica
NOEL POLK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Patti Carr Black
Patti Carr Black, a native of Sumner, Mississippi, served as Director of the Mississippi State Historical Museum, 1976-1992. She is a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women with an M.A. from Emory University. While living several years in New York, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Time, Inc. She is the author of over twenty publications, including: Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980; Breathing Art; Literary Tour of Mississippi; Southern Writers’ Quiz Book; The Natchez Trace; Eudora Welty: Early Escapades, all published by the University Press of Mississippi; American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf published by the Mississippi Arts Commission, The Mississippi Story published by the Mississippi Museum of Art, and exhibit catalogs on Eudora Welty, Walter Anderson, Mississippi folk arts, Choctaw arts and crafts and other catalogs on Mississippi's cultural history, published by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
She is the recipient of the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award (2012) from the Natchez Literary Festival; the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Non-Fiction Award (1999), the Governor's Award for the Arts (1993), Award of Merit from the Mississippi Historical Society (1993), Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (1984). She also received a Special Award from the Mississippi Craftsman’s Guild in 1981.
She is currently at work on the biography of Jimmie Rodgers, early recording star from Meridian.
Previous Winners
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1980
Literature
— Ellen Douglas —The Rock Cried OutMusic
— Luigi Zaninelli — for "The Turn of the Screw" — ballet music Art
— Ed McGowin
— for large outdoor sculpture on West Capitol Street, Jackson
1981
Literature
— Walker Percy — The Second Coming Music
— James S. Sclater— for "E.R.A.—tic Behaviour" duet for mezzo—soprano and clarinet — Ray Parrish— for large sand and glass sculpture 1982
Literature
— Ellen Gilchrist — In the Land of Dreamy Dreams Music
— William Grant Still (posthumously)— for "A Bayou Legend" — opera on television Art
— Valerie Jaudon
— for abstract graphics
1983
Literature
— Ellen Douglas — A Lifetime BurningMusic
— Patrick Houlihan— for "In the Stillness of Time" Art
— George Wardlaw— for painted aluminum sculptures
1984
Literature
— Rebecca Hill — Blue RiseMusic
— Patrick Houlihan — for "Nocturne for Piano and Electronic Tape" Art
— James L. Seawright, Jr — for "Electonic Garden #2".
1985
Literature
— Ellen Gilchrist — Victory Over Japan Music
— Luigi Zaninelli— for "A Musical Banquet for Children (a Beavy of Beasties and the Steadfast Tin Soldier)" Art
— William Dunlap — for "Spring Storm—Valley Series"
1986
Literature
— John Stone—Renaming of Streets, a collection of poems Music
— Samuel Jones— for "The Trumpet and The Swan" Art
— Kenneth W. Marlow—for "Self Portrait" Photography
— Robert Townsend Jones, Jr. Special Writing Award — Dorothy Abbott 1987
Literature
— Richard Ford — The Sportswriter Music
— David Caudill— for "Five Sacred Choral Pieces" Visual Art
— Ke Francis— for "Hoedown" and "King of Now Here" Photography
— Birney Imes, III
1988
Literature
— Walker PercyMusic
— Milton BabbittVisual Art
— Zarah MaranianPhotography
— Maude S. ClayLifetime Achievement
— Eudora Welty
1989
Literature
— Larry BrownMusic
— Paul OverstreetVisual Art
— Mildred Nungester WolfePhotography
— Rita DewittLifetime Achievement
— Walter Anderson
1990
Literature
— Rick BassMusic
— James S. SclaterVisual Art
— Randy HayesPhotography
— William EgglestonSpecial Achievement
— William FerrisCharles Reagan Wilson 1991
Literature
— Ellen Gilchrist— I Cannot Get You Close Enough Music
— Samuel Jones — for "Canticles of Time" Visual Art
— Birney Imes, III
— for Juke Joint
1992
Fiction
— Lewis Nordan — Music of the Swamp NonFiction
— Michael B. Ballard — Pemberton: A Biography Visual Art
— Ron Dale — mixed media Photography
— Maude S. Clay — Music
— Luigi Zaninelli — A Song Cycle for Soprano and Orchestra Career Achievement in the Performing Arts
— Jane Reid Petty
1993
Fiction
— Donna TarttNonFiction
— Chalmers ArcherClifton Taulbert Visual Art
— Jere H. AllenPhotography
— Allen Frame top1994 Fiction
— Barry Hannah — Bats Out of Hell NonFiction
— Willie Morris — New York Days Visual Art
— Greely Myatt for Sculpture — Book with Bulb Photography
— Tom Rankin — for Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta Music
— Douglas McConnell
— for Songs of the Beloved
1995
Fiction
— Beverly Lowry — The Track of Real Desires NonFiction
— Mary Garrard — The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, HIstory and Impact Visual Art
— Sylvain Klaus — for The Island Painters Photography
— Birney Imes, III — Whispering Pines Music
— James S. Sclater — for Character Sketches: Theme, Variations and Fughetta Lifetime Achievement
— Franke and Bern KeatingCitation of Merit
— ETV and Public Radio in Mississippi
1996
Fiction
— Lewis Nordan — The Sharpshooter Blues NonFiction
— David Herbert Donald — Lincoln Visual Art
— Charles Carraway — for Interiors/Interiors Photography
— Milly Moorhead — for Southern Heritage Collection Music
— Laurence M. Oden — for Opera Mary Queen of Scotland Lifetime Achievement
— Lee and Pup McCarty
1997
Fiction
— Cynthia Shearer — The Wonder Book of the Air NonFiction
— Stephen Ambrose — Undaunted Courage Visual Art
— Valerie Jaudon — Retrospective Exhibit at the Mississippi Museum of Art Photography
— Marion Brown — for "An Unforced Vision" Music
— Mark Howell — for "Of Miracles and Magnetism" Poetry
— Paul Ruffin
1998
Fiction
— Wylene Dunbar — Margaret Cape NonFiction
— Will D. Campbell — And Also with You: Duncan Gray and the American Dilemma Visual Art
— William Dunlap — for In the Spirit of the Land Photography
— Hubert F. Worley, Jr. — for Ballerinas and Bluesmen Music
— Luigi Zaninelli — for Three American Hymns for Soprano and Wind Ensemble Poetry
— Angela Ball — for poems published in New Yorker Special Achievement
— Marion Barnwell
— for A Place Called Mississippi
1999
Fiction
— Ellen Douglas — Truth: Four Stories NonFiction
— Patti Carr Black — Art in Mississippi Visual Art
— Jean Cappadonna—Nichols — for Ceramic Sculptures Photography
— Lucinda Devlin — for Omega Suites and The Corporal Arenas Music
— James Sclater — for Morgana Poetry
— John Stone — Where Water Begins
2000
Fiction
— Steve Yarbrough — The Oxygen Man NonFiction
— Edward Cohen — The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Visual Art
— Paula TemplePhotography
— Maude Schuyler ClayMusic
— Luigi Zaninelli — "A Crown, A Mansion and a Throne" Poetry
— D.C. BerryLifetime Achievement
— Leontyne PriceCitation of Merit
— University Press of Mississippi
2001
Fiction
— Howard Bahr — The Year of Jubilo NonFiction
— Jeff Durstewitz and Ruth Williams Visual Art
— Collier B. ParkerPhotography
— Eudora Welty— Country Churchyards Poetry
— Natasha Trethewey
— Domestic Work
2002
Fiction
— Barry Hannah — Yonder Stands Your Orphan NonFiction
— Bobby DeLaughter — Never Too Late Visual Art
— Sheila Stott Gourlay — for "Rooted, #6" Photography
— John D. Lawrence — for retrospective exhibit Music
— Michael Kimber— for composition for strings Poetry
— Brooks Haxton
— Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero
2003
Fiction
— Brad Watson — The Heaven of Mercury NonFiction
— Minor Ferris Buchanan — biography of Holt Collier Visual Arts
— Gwendolyn Magee — for "quilts that explore her cultural heritage as an African—American" Photography
— Jack Kotz — Ms. Booth's Garden Music
— Samuel Jones — for "Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird" James Sclater — for "Variations and Toccata on a theme by Pagannini" Poetry
— Natasha Trethewey — Bellocq's Ophelia Lifetime Achievement
— Mimi Garrard and James Seawright
2004
Fiction
— Tom Franklin — Hell at the Breech NonFiction
— Christopher Maurer — Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson Visual Arts
— Wyatt Waters — for "An Oxford's Sketchbook" Music
— Logan Skelton — for "Anderson Songs" Poetry
— Ann Fisher—Wirth — Blue Window Lifetime Achievement
Shelby Foote
2005
Fiction
— Margaret McMullan — How I Found the Strong: A Novel of the Civil War NonFiction
— Timothy B. Smith — Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg Visual Arts
— Sam GilliamMusical Composition
— Justin Sharp — for "Awakening" Poetry
— Brooks Haxton — Uproar Photography
— Gretchen Haien 2006
Fiction
— Tom Bailey — The Grace that Keeps this World NonFiction
— Suzanne Marrs — Eudora Welty: A Biography Visual Arts
— Thomas NawrockiMusic Composition
— Andrew Owen — for three etudes for solo piano Photography
— Robyn Moore
2007
Fiction
— Richard Ford —The Lay of the LandNonFiction
— Jere Nash and Andy Taggart — Mississippi Politics: The Struggle
for Power 1976—2006Visual Arts
— Bill Dunlap — Dunlap
Music Composition
— Samuel Jones — for "Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra"Photography
— Debra Ferguson — for "Vanishing Delta"
Poetry
— Natasha Trethewey — Native Guard: Poems
Lifetime Achievement
— Morgan Freeman and Myrna Colley—Lee 2008 Fiction
—Margaret McMullan — When I Crossed No-Bob NonFiction
— Joseph Crespino — In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution Visual Arts
— Carlyle Wolfe — for "The Little House" Music Composition
— Albert Oppenheimer — for "Ravenouse" Photography
— Talbot Easton Selby — for "An Unconscious Reality"
Poetry
— Angela Ball — Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
Lifetime Achievement — Ellen Douglas 2009 Fiction —Howard Bahr — Pelican Road NonFiction —Douglas Blackmon — Slavery by Another Name: The Re—enslavement of Black Americans from the civil War to World War II Visual Arts —H. C. (Chris) Porter — Backyards and Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories Music Composition (Classical/Concert) —Steve Rouse — for "Between Stillness" Music Composition (Contemporary/Popular) —3 Doors Down — for "3 Doors Down" Photography —Jane Rule Burdine — Delta Deep Down Poetry —Brooks Haxton — They Lift Their Wings to Cry Lifetime Achievement — Marshall Bouldin III — Elizabeth Spencer 2010 Fiction —Frederick Barthelme — Waveland Nonfiction —Charles W. Eagles — The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss Visual Arts —Charles Crossley — Charles Crossley: Textures, Shapes and Forms of Spirits Music Composition (Classical/Concert) — Shandy Phillips — Sonata Number 2 for Violin and Piano Music Composition (Contemporary/Popular) —Caroline Herring — Golden Apples of the Sun Photography —Michael Loyd Young — Blues, Booze, and BBQ Poetry —D. C. Berry — Hamlet Off Stage Special Achievement —Interdisciplinary collaborators Jimmyle Listenbee, Amanda Malloy, Kevin Malloy, Alex Mauney, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Jared Spears and Michael Barnett for The Passions of Walter Anderson: a Dramatic Celebration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Artist, a premier performace in 2009 at the Oxford Conference for the Book. Lifetime Achievement —William Ferris 2011 Fiction —Brad Watson, Laramie, Wyoming — Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives Nonfiction —Natasha Trethewey, Atlanta, Georgia — Beyond Katrina Musical Composition (Classical/Concert) —Samuel Jones, Seattle, Washington — Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra —James Sclater, Clinton, Mississippi —Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble Musical Composition (Popular) —Eden Brent, Greenville, Mississippi — Ain't Got No Troubles Photography —Oraien Catledge, Decatur, Georgia — Oraien Catledge: Photographs Poetry —Ava Leavell Haymon, Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Why the House is Made of Gingerbread Visual Arts —Rolland Golden, Natchez, Mississippi — River and Reverie: Paintings of the Mississippi by Rolland Golden Lifetime Achievement —Mary D. Garrard
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| 2012 |
Fiction Michael Kardos, Mississippi State University - One Last Good Time Nonfiction —Susan Haltom, Jackson - One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place Musical Composition (Classical/Concert) —Shandy Phillips, Starkville - Concerto for Violin, Viola, Piano, and String Orchestra Musical Composition (Popular) —Kate Campbell, Nashville, TN - Two Nights in Texas Photography —Betty Press, University of Southern Mississippi - I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb Poetry —T. R. Hummer, Arizona State University - Ephemeron: Poems Visual Arts —Rod Moorhead, Oxford - Furies Lifetime Achievement —Andrew Bucci —Sam Gore |