SOURCE: DORNSIFE

WHAT?

The Department of English, with the support of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review, will award the $20,000 prize during a gala at USC on April 21.

THE WRITER

Christos Ikonomou, a Greek author hailed by critics as a “visionary social observer,” is the inaugural winner of the Chowdhury Prize in Literature, an annual international mid-career prize for writers — and the first literary award of its kind on the West Coast.

The prize is awarded by the Department of English at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, through the auspices of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review.