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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