Magazine faces criticism for giving award to Richard Ford.
Posted Nov 5, 2019 10:39:12 AM.
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NEW YORK — Bruce Springsteen will be presenting a lifetime achievement award next spring to Richard Ford, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Independence Day” centres on a real estate agent from Springsteen’s native New Jersey.
But not everyone is happy about Ford’s receiving the Hadada Award, bestowed by the Paris Review at the magazine’s annual spring Revel.
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen was among those on Twitter who noted that the Hadada has only been given to white writers. Others, including author Roxane Gay, cited Ford’s history of hostile behaviour toward writers who criticized his work. In 2004, he spat on Colson Whitehead after Whitehead wrote a negative review of Ford’s “A Multitude of Sins.”
The Paris Review didn’t have an immediate comment Tuesday.
The Associated Press
