Granted through the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Strauss Living Award will provide two living writers with $100,000 a year for two years; whereas the award was based on Harold Strauss, the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and the one who introduced postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences,
Granted through the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Strauss Living Award will provide two living writers with $100,000 a year for two years; whereas the award was based on Harold Strauss, the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and the one who introduced postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences,