Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award:

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) has chosen William Ferris, the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. 

 

A native of Vicksburg, William R. Ferris is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, where he served on the faculty for 18 years.  He also is the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.  Named one of the Top Ten Professors in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine, Ferris is the author of the recently published Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues.

Special Achievement Award:

 

A rare Special Achievement Award will be presented for The Passions of Walter Anderson: A Dramatic Celebration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Artist.  First performed in 2009 at the Oxford Conference for the Book, this interdisciplinary work combines drama, art, music, and dance to pay tribute to Walter Anderson and his family. Adapted by Alex Mauney from the writings of Agnes & Walter Inglis Anderson, The Passions of Walter Anderson was produced by Rhona Justice-Malloy, Professor and Chair of the University of Mississippi Department of Theatre Arts and directed by Kevin Malloy, Instructor of Public Speaking at the Lott Leadership Institute at the University of Mississippi. The original music was composed and arranged by Jared Spears, the choreographer was Jimmyle Listenbee, the lighting designer was Michael Barnett, and production manager was Amanda Malloy.

Award Category Winners:

2010 MIAL AWARD WINNERS

FICTION                                 Frederick Barthelme

NONFICTION                            Charles W. Eagles

 

MUSICAL COMPOSITION            Shandy Phillips

(Classical/Concert)

                 

 

MUSICAL COMPOSITION       Caroline Herring

                  (Contemporary/Popular)

 

PHOTOGRAPHY                   Michael Loyd Young

POETRY                                               D. C. Berry

VISUAL ARTS                               Charles Crossley

For a complete list of  2010 nominees, please select the Nominations tab at the top of the page.

 

Previous Winners

1980 Literature - Ellen Douglas -The Rock Cried Out Music - 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 Art - 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 Burning Music - Patrick Houlihan- for "In the Stillness of Time" Art - George Wardlaw- for painted aluminum sculptures top 1984 Literature - Rebecca Hill - Blue Rise Music - 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 Percy Music - Milton Babbitt Visual Art - Zarah Maranian Photography - Maude S. Clay Lifetime Achievement - Eudora Welty 1989 Literature - Larry Brown Music - Paul Overstreet Visual Art - Mildred Nungester Wolfe Photography - Rita Dewitt Lifetime Achievement - Walter Anderson top 1990 Literature - Rick Bass Music - James S. Sclater Visual Art - Randy Hayes Photography - William Eggleston Special Achievement - William Ferris Charles 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 Tartt NonFiction - Chalmers Archer Clifton Taulbert Visual Art - Jere H. Allen Photography - Allen Frame top 1994 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 Keating Citation 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 top 2000 Fiction - Steve Yarbrough - The Oxygen Man NonFiction - Edward Cohen - The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Visual Art - Paula Temple Photography - Maude Schuyler Clay Music - Luigi Zaninelli - "A Crown, A Mansion and a Throne" Poetry - D.C. Berry Lifetime Achievement - Leontyne Price Citation of Merit - University Press of Mississippi 2001 Fiction - Howard Bahr - The Year of Jubilo NonFiction - Jeff Durstewitz and Ruth Williams Visual Art - Collier B. Parker Photography - 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 Hold 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 Gilliam Musical Composition - Justin Sharp - for "Awakening" Poetry - Brooks Haxton - Uproar Photography - Gretchen Haien top 2006 Fiction - Tom Bailey - The Grace that Keeps this World NonFiction - Suzanne Marrs - Eudora Welty: A Biography Visual Arts - Thomas Nawrocki Music Composition - Andrew Owen - for three etudes for solo piano Photography - Robyn Moore 2007 Fiction - Richard Ford -The Lay of the Land NonFiction - Jere Nash and Andy Taggart - Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power 1976-2006 Visual 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 top