Awards & Winners

Gina Berriault

Date of Birth 01-January-1926
Place of Birth Long Beach
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, Area code 562)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Arline Shandling
Profession Writer, Novelist
Gina Berriault, was an American novelist and short story writer. Berriault was born in Long Beach, California, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration from him, using his stand-up typewriter to write her first stories while still in grammar school. Berriault had a prolific writing career, which included stories, novels and screenplays. Her writing tended to focus on life in and around San Francisco. She published four novels and three collections of short stories, including Women in Their Beds: New & Selected Stories, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. In 1997 Berriault was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre. Berriault taught writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop and San Francisco State University. She also received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill Fellowship, a Commonwealth Gold Medal for Literature, the Pushcart Prize and several O'Henry prizes. She adapted her short story "The Stone Boy" for a film of the same title, released in 1984. The same story had previously been adapted by another writer for a 1960 television presentation.

Awards by Gina Berriault

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gina Berriault.

1997


PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Honored for : Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

1996


National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Honored for : Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories