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(New Orleans, LA\u2014June 1, 2017)\u2014 Louise Penny and Trudy Nan Boyce are the recipients of the Pinckley Prizes <\/strong><\/a>for Crime Fiction,<\/strong> named to honor the memory of Diana Pinckley, longtime crime fiction columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. The prizes will be presented September 8, 2017<\/strong> at The Academy of the Sacred Heart\/Nims Fine Arts Center, 4301 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. This ticketed event is open to the public. (New Orleans, LA\u2014June 1, 2017)\u2014 Louise Penny and Trudy Nan Boyce are the recipients of the Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, named to honor the memory of Diana Pinckley, longtime crime fiction columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune. The prizes will be presented September 8, 2017 at The Academy of the Sacred Heart\/Nims Fine Arts … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1000","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBestselling author Louise Penny<\/strong>, the first Canadian to receive the award, is the winner of the Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work; her appearance in New Orleans is part of her national tour for a new novel. The author of 13 novels in the Armand Gamache series (the latest, Glass Houses, will be published August 29th), \u201cPenny has created a world where most of us would like to live,\u201d the jury said. \u201cIn the village of Three Pines, Quebec, readers take refuge and delight among its endearing inhabitants.\u00a0 Crime may occur, but it never triumphs, not when Gamache is on the case. Penny finds her mantra in the words of W.H. Auden \u2013 \u2018Goodness exists\u2019 \u2013 something we need reminding of in these times.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat amazing company \u2013 all women whose works I admire and enjoy,\u201d Penny said.\u00a0 \u201cAll trailblazers in an industry we love. As was Diana. It also speaks volumes about Diana and her friends that not only was this award created, but that it celebrated both the established and the emerging. This generation and the next. I\u2019m where I am because of other women in the industry, be they authors, editors, publicists, reviewers, booksellers, librarians. And now we all get to help the luminous new voices.\u201d
\nAtlanta resident Trudy Nan Boyce<\/strong> wins the Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel for her book Out of the Blues, published by G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, the beginning of a series featuring Detective Sara Alt, or \u201cSalt.\u201d Boyce\u2019s experiences as a beat cop, Homicide detective, senior hostage negotiator and lieutenant all add authenticity to her writing, in what the judges called, \u201cThis gutsy, confident first novel.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat a thrill,\u201d Boyce said. \u201cI am honored to be among such company as the past award recipients and to be chosen by your judges. And, man, do I love New Orleans! I last visited two or three years ago for the French Quarter Festival; stayed in a B & B on Esplanade near Treme. It was, as New Orleans often is, magical. I’ve got a story I’ve been working on for years that is inspired by a coming of age experience I had in New Orleans when I was thirteen.\u201d
\nThe Prizes were launched in 2012 by the Women\u2019s National Book Association of New Orleans to honor Diana Pinckley, who was a founding member, as well as a civic activist who gave her time and energy to local and national causes. WNBA-NO, composed of writers, librarians, publishers, and booklovers, was founded in 2011, as a local affiliate of the national group, which began in 1917.\u00a0 The judges for Debut Novel this year were novelist Jean Redmann, author of the Micky Knight and Nell McGraw series; Mary McCay, author\/editor of books about Rachel Carson, Ellen Gilchrist, and Walker Percy; and journalist Susan Larson, host of \u201cThe Reading Life\u201d on WWNO-FM. Previous Pinckley Prize winners include Laura Lippman, Nevada Barr, and Sara Paretsky for Distinguished Body of Work, along with Gwen Florio, Adrianne Harun, and Christine Carbo for Debut Novel.
\nPenny and Boyce will each receive a $2,500 cash award, as well as a beautiful paper rosette fashioned from the pages of their books, created by New Orleans artist Yuka Petz.\u00a0 For tickets to the event go to: OctaviaBooks.com Tickets are exchanged for a copy of Louise Penny\u2019s newest book Glass Houses. For more information: pinckleyprizes.org.
\nSubmissions for 2018 Debut Novel Prize open June 1, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"