The international Chowdhury Prize in Literature, presented by USC, Kenyon College and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation, will go to a midcareer writer.
Editor’s Notes
This issue of the
Kenyon Review breaks my own long-standing rules. It’s an indulgence I’ve granted myself on the way out the door. (I’m actually a kind of ghost editor in these pages, having physically walked out that door at the end of June such are the rhythms of production.)
For twenty-six years (in truth for nearly thirty, since I served as acting editor in 1989–90 and as associate after that), I’ve always been committed to open submissions, to searching diligently for the very best literary writing that has come to us, whether over the transom or via the Internet. In the process we’ve discovered many brilliant new voices and published them alongside some of the most distinguished writers of our generation. This has been our mission and has allowed us to welcome many authors to our pages for the first time.