Thurberpriset för amerikansk humor

Thurber -priset för amerikansk humor , uppkallat efter den amerikanske humoristen James Thurber , uppmärksammar enastående bidrag inom humorskrivande . Priset delas ut av Thurber House . Den delades först ut oregelbundet, men har sedan 2004 delats ut årligen. 2015 var finalisterna för första gången, alla kvinnor. Vinnare av Thurber-priset har inkluderat författare från en rad olika bakgrunder, från The Daily Show- värdarna Jon Stewart och Trevor Noah till The New Yorkers personalförfattare Calvin Trillin och Ian Frazier, samt universitetsprofessorerna Julie Schumacher och Harrison Scott Key.

Pristagare

Al Franken (finalist) - Rush Limbaugh är en stor fet idiot och andra observationer
David Sedaris (finalist) - Naken
Henry Alford (Special Honor Book) — Big Kiss
Andy Borowitz (finalist) — The Trillionaire Next Door
Bill Bryson (finalist) — In a Sunburned Country
Brett Leveridge (finalist) — Men My Mother Dated
Jim Mullen (finalist) — It Takes a Village Idiot
Robert Kaplow (finalist) — Jag och Orson Welles
Dan Zevin (finalist) — The Day I Turned Uncool
Andy Borowitz (finalist) — The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers
Firoozeh Dumas (finalist) — Funny in Farsi
Kinky Friedman (finalist) — Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad
Bill Scheft (finalist) — Time Won't Let Me
Merrill Markoe (finalist) — Walking In Circles Before Ligging Down
Bob Newhart (finalist) — I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me As Funny
Patricia Marx (finalist) — Him Her Him Again The End of Him
Simon Rich (finalist) — Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Sloane Crosley (finalist) — I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Bruce Ducker (finalist) Dizzying Heights: The Aspen Novel
Don Lee (finalist) — Wrack and Ruin
Laurie Notaro (finalist) — The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
  • 2010: Steve Hely (vinnare) — How I Blev en känd romanförfattare
Jancee Dunn (finalist) - Varför får min mamma en tatuering?
Rhoda Janzen (finalist) — Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Mike Birbiglia (finalist) — Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
Rick Reilly (finalist) — Sports from Hell
  • 2012: Calvin Trillin ( vinnare) — Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Nate DiMeo (finalist) — Pawnee
Patricia Marx (finalist) — Börjar från Happy
  • 2013: Dan Zevin (vinnare) — Dan Gets a Minivan
Shalom Auslander (finalist) — Hope: A Tragedy
Dave Barry och Alan Zweibel (finalister) — Lunatics: A Novel
  • 2014: John Kenney (vinnare) — Truth In Advertising
Liza Donnelly (finalist) — Women on Men
Bruce McCall och David Letterman (finalister) — This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me)
Roz Chast (finalist) — Kan vi inte prata om något trevligare?
Annabelle Gurwitch (finalist) — I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
  • 2016: Harrison Scott Key (vinnare) — The World's Largest Man
Jason Gay (finalist) — Little Victories
Mary Norris (finalist) ) — Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.
Ken Pisani – Amp'd
Aaron Thier – Mr. Eternity
Jenny Allen (finalist) – Would Everybody Please Stop?
John Hodgman (finalist) – Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
Sloane Crosley (finalist) – Look Alive Out There
John Kenney (finalist) – Love Poems for Married People
  • 2020: Damon Young ( vinnare) – What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
Dave Barry (finalist) – Lektioner från Lucy
Kira Jane Buxton (finalist) – Hollow Kingdom
Alexandra Petri (finalist) – Nothing Is Wrong och här är varför
Mike Birbiglia (finalist) - The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

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