For Immediate Release: Nov 26, 2013
The Speculative Literature Foundation is delighted
to announce that Daniel Jose Older is the winner of the 2013 Gulliver
Travel Grant.
Older's novel, "The Book of Lost
Saints," weaves post-revolutionary Cuba with present-day New Jersey, tied
together by unsettled ghosts drawn to the music of a culture that has
evolved without them. Older will use the $800 grant to travel to Cuba to
research prisons that Cuban political prisoners were held in.
The Travel Grant judges said of Older's entry,
"Wonderful narrative voice: playful, engaging, quick, and written with a
seriousness, humor, and a storytelling acuity not often seen."
Also shortlisted were: Akwaeke Emezi, Russell
Nichols, Eden Robins, Oksana Marifioti, and Alina Rios, for their
outstanding submissions, which made the selection of the eventual winner
a difficult but enjoyable process.
SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION
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Dubuque, IA 52004-1693
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