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Salvatore Scibona Wins Writing Award

By on April 20, 2009 in Announcement

The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and The Provincetown Arts Press announce the awarding of the first Norman Mailer Cape Cod Writing Award for Exceptional Writing to Mr. Salvatore Scibona. On June 6th, 2009, at a cocktail reception at PAAM, (460 Commercial Street) followed by a private dinner at the Norman Mailer home, the Colony will [...]

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Castle Wins Sex Prize

By on November 29, 2007 in In the Media, Writing

From The Guardian: When it comes to truly deplorable writing, not even death, it seems, lets you off the hook. This year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award has gone to the late Norman Mailer for a description of oral sex in his final novel, The Castle in the Forest, in which a male [...]

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Honor Mailer on November 5

By on September 20, 2007 in Announcement, Events

An invitation to Society members to join us in honoring Norman Mailer in Cambridge. The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting the Fifth Distinguished Service in the Arts Awards Benefit at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on Monday, November 5, 2007. The Gilbert Franklin Medal will be presented to Norman Mailer, Michael Mazur [...]

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Mr. Mailer Receives Hadada Award

By on April 2, 2007 in Events, In the Media, Norman Mailer

On April 23, 2007, Mr. Mailer received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review in a New York ceremony. Novelist E.L. Doctorow, a longtime friend of Mr. Mailer’s, and his editor for An American Dream (1965), presented the award, which was created by the late editor of the Review, George Plimpton. New York Mayor Michael [...]

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