Winners
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 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 ofthe 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 plublished 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 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 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
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