Awards & Winners

David Plante

Date of Birth 04-March-1940
Place of Birth Providence
(Providence County, Rhode Island, United States of America, Area code 401, 02905)
Nationality United States of America, United Kingdom
Also know as David Robert Plante
Profession Novelist
David Robert Plante is an American novelist. The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent. He is a graduate of Boston College and the Université catholique de Louvain. He has been published extensively including in The New Yorker and The Paris Review and various literary magazines. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Among his honours are: Henfield Fellow, University of East Anglia, 1975; British Arts Council Grant, 1977; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1983. He is an Ambassador for the LGBT Committee of the New York Public Library. His voluminous diary is kept in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. His papers are kept in the library of The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a retired professor of creative writing at Columbia University. His novels examine the spiritual in a variety of contexts, but notably in the milieu of large, working-class, Catholic families of French Canadian background. His male characters range from openly gay to sexually ambiguous and questioning. He has been a writer-in-residence at Gorki Institute of Literature, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Adelphi University, King's College, the University of Cambridge, Tulsa University, and the University of East Anglia. Plante’s work, for which he has been nominated for the National Book Award, includes Difficult Women, a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer and the widely praised Francoeur Trilogy--The Family, The Country and The Woods. His most recent book is a memoir of Nikos Stangos, his partner of forty years, The Pure Lover. The papers of his former partner, Nikos Stangos, are in The Princeton University Library, the Program in Hellenic Studies. Plante lives in London, Lucca Italy, and Athens Greece. He has dual citizenship, American and British.

Awards by David Plante

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Plante.

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Family