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T.C. Boyle wins $30,000 Rea short story award

The Columbian
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T.C. Boyle won the Rea Award for the Short Story on Wednesday morning.

The $30,000 prize, founded by Michael M. Rea in 1986, is given each year to the best short story writer in the United States or Canada.

This year’s jurors were Richard Bausch, Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth Strout. In a statement released Wednesday, they called Boyle “a genuine American original” and praised his 10 celebrated collections. “His stories fairly glitter with imagination,” they wrote, “an immense variety, hilarity, ambition and achieved talent. To his enduring credit and his readers’ delight and amazement, less is not in the Boyle fictive vocabulary, though in his stories’ dedication to matters of the heart and the human spirit, his finely tuned wit and his vision of our sometimes sad American fate have nothing of the cynical or the hopeless.”

In late 2013, Boyle published a massive, 1,000-page collection called “T.C. Boyle Stories II,” a follow-up to his 1998 collected works, “T.C. Boyle Stories.” A review in The Washington Post singled out “A Death in Kitchawank,” which it called “a marvelously compressed cycle-of-life story that ends in muted tones of elegy and incantation.”

Boyle, who teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California, has been included in five editions of “The Best American Short Stories.”

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