Past Winners

2007

  Duende, by Tracy K. Smith has been chosen as 2007 seventh annual Sister Mariella Gable Prize.

 

2006

Trilogy: Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship which includes the books, Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines and Close Sesame by Nuruddin Farah has been chosen as the 2006 winner of the sixth annual Sister Mariella Gable Prize.

2005

Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon by Jane Kenyon has been chosen as the 2005 winner of the fifth annual Sister Mariella Gable Prize.

 

 

2004

The Weatherman by Clint McCown has been chosen as the 2004 winner of the fourth annual Sister Mariella Gable Prize. The Weatherman is a Graywolf Press new release. Read an excerpt.

Clint McCown will be honored on Tuesday, February 1, 2005, at 7:30 p.m., in Alumnae Hall at the Haehn Campus Center at the College of Saint Benedict. A reception and book signing will follow his presentation. 

Photo by Michael Simon

2003

One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer has been chosen as the winner of the third annual Sister Mariella Gable Prize.  One Vacant Chair is a Graywolf Press new release.  Read an excerpt.

Joe Coomer will be honored on Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 7:30 p.m., in Alumnae Hall at the Haehn Campus Center at the College of Saint Benedict.  A reception and book signing follow his presentation.

 

 

2002

The 2002 winner of the Sister Mariella Gable Prize is Judith Kitchen's novel The House on Eccles Road,  published by Graywolf Press in fall 2002.   Read an excerpt.

A celebration honoring Judith Kitchen is scheduled for Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 7:00 p.m., at Alumnae Hall in Haehn Campus Center.   A reception and book signing follow the ceremony.

 

 

2001

The 2001 winner of the Sister Mariella Gable Prize is the novel novel Loverboy, by Victoria Redel. It was published by Graywolf Press in spring 2001. Loverboy was recently made into a movie. Read an excerpt.