Awards & Winners

Lawrence Thornton

Date of Birth 14-October-1937
Place of Birth Pomona
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, Area code 909)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Lawrence Thornton is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California. His most well known novel, Imagining Argentina, employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War. This novel, along with "Naming the Spirits and "Tales from the Blue Archives," makes up The Argentina Trilogy. His work, published in eighteen languages, is frequently taught in schools and universities. In 1994 a film was made of Imagining Argentina by Christopher Hampton starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Claire Bloom and Michael Wood. In 1996, Zorongo Flamenco, A Minneapolis-base flamenco troupe, staged a flamenco version of the novel that featured an international cast of dancers and singers. In addition to writing six novels, he is the author of a non-fiction study of modern fiction, "Unbodied Hope," as well as scholarly articles in PMLA, Comparative Literature, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies and other learned journals. During the 1990s he was a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.

Awards by Lawrence Thornton

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lawrence Thornton.

1988


Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Honored for : Imagining Argentina
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Imagining Argentina