Hobson Lecture and Prize

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Hobson Prize Recipient

2023
Hobson
Prize

Chowan University is pleased to announce that David Sanchez is the recipient of the 2023 Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters. In making the announcement, the Hobson Prize Selection Committee noted, “David Sanchez’s All Day Is A Long Time, which is a lyrical, engaging, and hauntingly beautiful first novel reminds us that the past is never beyond language’s redemption.”

A native of Florida, David Sanchez is the recipient of a James A. Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, a PEN America Writing
for Justice Fellowship, and a Tin House Workshop Summer Scholarship. A graduate of the University of Miami’s M.F.A. program in fiction, his poetry and fiction have been published in Thread Literary Inquiry, and
Momma Tried.

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David Sanchez

Previously Honored Recipients

2022

Daniel Wallace

2021

 Michel Stone

2020

Crystal Wilkinson

2019

Wiley Cash

2018

Jim Grimsley

2017

Kevin Wilson

2016

Edward P. Jones

2015

Dorothy Allison

2014

Sharyn McCrumb

2013

Joseph Bathanti

2012

Silas House

2011

Robert Morgan

2010

Lee Smith

2009

Darnell Arnoult

2008

Judy Goldman

2007

Josephine Humphreys

2006

Michael Parker

2005

Shelia P. Moses

2004

Chuck Sullivan

2003

Sheri Reynolds

2002

Padgett Powell

2001

Allan Gurganus

2000

Amy Hempel

1999

G.D. Gearino

1998

Randall Kenan

1997

Jill McCorkle

1996

Mark Richard

1995

Kaye Gibbons