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Annie Proulx to receive honorary

National Book Award

Picasso paintings to

be reunited for first

time since 1932 In this Jan. 26, 2006, file photo, writer Annie Proulx speaks at a news conference in Madrid.

By HILLEL ITALIE Service” to the literary com- from Vermont to Wyoming
By JILL LAWLESS “Picasso 1932 — Love, AP National Writer munity.Previous recipients to Seattle, and set her work
Associated Press Fame, Tragedy” includes NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulit- of the Distinguished Contri- around the country and be-
LONDON (AP) — more than 100 paintings, zer Prize and numerous oth- bution medal include Toni yond. “The Shipping News”
An exhibition in Paris sculptures and works on er awards didn’t prepare Morrison, Philip Roth and takes place in Newfound-
and London will reunite paper by the Spanish Annie Proulx for her latest Joan Didion.“Annie Proulx’s land, “Brokeback Moun-
three Picasso nudes artist, who at the time honor: a National Book ability to explore the nu- tain” in Wyoming and her
painted days apart but was 50 and living in Paris. Award medal for lifetime ances of the human spirit latest, the ecological epic
not displayed together Highlights include “The achievement.“I was aston- and render deeply mov- “Barkskins,” begins in Can-
for almost a century, the Dream,” another portrait ished when first I heard that ing reflections on rural life ada and journeys world-
news,” Proulx told The As-
have solidified her place wide. “Barkskins” warns of
Tate Modern gallery said of Walter that is consid- sociated Press during a re- in American Letters,” Lisa climate change, which
Thursday. ered among Picasso’s cent email interview. “I sim- Lucas, the foundation’s Proulx considers a defining
“Nude, Green Leaves greatest works. ply had not thought of my executive director, said in issue of the moment and
and Bust,” ‘’Nude in a It was once owned by various writings as a body a statement. “In addition one “impossible to ignore”
Black Armchair” and Las Vegas casino mo- of work that might be con- to her astounding literary in her future work. But she is
“The Mirror” are all bold- gul Steve Wynn, who put sidered as a contribution to accomplishments, film ad- also known for her explora-
ly colored depictions of his elbow through the American letters. It almost aptations of Proulx’s work tions of history, whether the
the artist’s lover Marie- canvas in 2006 just af- seemed that I had been have reached scores of haunting secrets of a New-
Therese Walter. ter agreeing to sell it for negligent in writing what I viewers who may not have foundland community in
They are held in private $139 million. considered discrete novels encountered her work on “The Shipping News,” or, in
collections but are be- The show will explore and stories instead of shap- the page.”Proulx, 82, won “Accordion Crimes,” when
ing loaned for an exhibi- the interplay between ing a holistic something the Pulitzer and National she traces an accordion’s
tion focusing on the art- Picasso’s work and his that might be regarded as Book Award for “The Ship- journey from Sicily in the
ist’s work during a single life — including a com- a life work.” ping News,” and her novel 1890s to Florida a century
year, 1932. plicated love life which On Thursday, the National “Postcards” made her the later.“For reasons I have
They haven’t been dis- Borchardt-Hume said Book Foundation praised first women to win the PEN/ never understood the past
played together since Pi- draws comparisons to the author of “The Shipping Faulkner award. She has has always had a hold on
casso’s exhibitions in Par- the much-married King News,” ‘’Brokeback Moun- also expressed reserva- the way I look at events. I
is and Zurich that year. Henry VIII. tain” and other fiction for tions about literary prizes, am attuned to long, slow
Announcing details of But the curator said it her “impressive lyricism and worrying that they over- change,” she wrote to the
the show, Tate Modern wouldn’t reduce the art- wit that captivates read- shadow the work.“It is true AP.
said that 1932 is now ist to “salacious love af- ers of all ages.” Anne Ha- that I have noticed awards “Throughout my life I have
seen as the artist’s “year fairs.” thaway, who starred in the sometimes affect writers slid in and out of gestalt
of wonders,” confirming “One of the things we film version of “Brokeback negatively by encouraging reversals, imaging earlier
him as a 20th-century will try to do is actually Mountain,” will present the them to weigh their suc- times for almost every situa-
Medal for Distinguished ceeding works on a scale of tion, not only when writing,
master who absorbed go back to Picasso as an Contribution to American notability rather than intrin- but in the normal course of
and transcended styles artist, who like any other Letters to Proulx during a sic verities in the work itself,” a day — the Viking pres-
including Cubism and artist faced the ques- Nov. 15 dinner ceremony in Proulx told the AP. “That’s ence in L’Anse aux Mead-
surrealism. tion every morning when Manhattan, when compet- badly put: I feel writing ows, the peopled steeps
But curator Achim Bor- he got up: What to do itive prizes will be given for the thing on the worktable of Chaco, the funerary
chardt-Hume said that next?” he said. the year’s best fiction, non- should have the focus, and rites of 19th C. Vermont,
at the time people were The exhibition runs at the fiction, poetry and young that awards should come the lustrous eyes of unwary
asking: “Is he still valid or Picasso Museum in Paris people’s literature books. like shifts in a veering wind, pronghorn, standing on the
is he over?” from Oct. 10 to Feb. 11, Scholastic Inc. President as gratifying surprises.”Born quivering false islands of
“He was very aware of then at Tate Modern and CEO Dick Robinson Edna Ann Proulx, in Nor- Okeefenokee, spider-webs
people asking that ques- from March 8 to Sept. 9, will be given the Literarian wich, Connecticut, the au- in Pacific Northwest au-
tion.” 2018.q Award for “Outstanding thor has lived everywhere tumn forests. q