Annie Proulx

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Annie Proulx : biography

August 22, 1935 –

Film adaptations

  • The Shipping News (2001) was directed by Lasse Hallström and featured Kevin Spacey as the protagonist Quoyle, Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm and Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse.
  • Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, was based on a story of the same name in Proulx’s collection of short stories, Close Range.

Awards

  • 2012— United States Artists Fellow award
  • 2004—Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for "The Wamsutter Wolf"
  • 2002—Best Foreign Language Novels of 2002 / Best American Novel Award, Chinese Publishing Association and Peoples’ Literature Publishing House (That Old Ace in the Hole)
  • 2000—WILLA Literary Award, Women Writing the West
  • 2000—Borders Original Voices Award in Fiction (Close Range, Wyoming Stories)
  • 2000—"People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," Best American Short Stories 2000
  • 2000—English-Speaking Union’s Ambassador Book Award (Close Range, Wyoming Stories)
  • 2000—The New Yorker Book Award Best Fiction 1999 (Close Range, Wyoming Stories)
  • 1999—"Half-Skinned Steer" inc. Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. J. Updike
  • 1999—"The Bunchgrass Edge of the World," The Best American Short Stories 1999
  • 1999—"The Mud Below," O. Henry Awards Prize Stories 1999
  • 1998—"Brokeback Mountain" National Magazine Award
  • 1998—"Brokeback Mountain" inc. O. Henry Awards Prize Stories 1998
  • 1998—"Half-Skinned Steer" inc. Best American Short Stories 1998
  • 1997—John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (for body of work)
  • 1997—Shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize (Accordion Crimes)
  • 1994—Pulitzer Prize, Fiction (The Shipping News)

. Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-28.

  • 1993—National Book Award, Fiction (The Shipping News)

. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28. (With acceptance speech by Proulx and essays by Bob Shacochis and Mark Sarvas from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

  • 1993—Irish Times International Fiction Prize (The Shipping News)
  • 1993—Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (The Shipping News)
  • 1993—PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Postcards)