2025 Lawrence A. Sanders Prize in Fiction Honors Judy Blume
Thursday, March 20, 2025 8pm to 10pm
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3000 NE 151st ST, Wolfe University Center, Miami, Florida 33181
#EnglishDepartment, CASE, CollegeOfArtsScienceAndEducation, BBC, BiscayneBayCampus, DASA, BayviewHousingJUDY BLUME’s twenty-five books for young readers and her four widely read novels for adults have been published in forty languages. Among her many honors, she has been named a Literary Legend by the Library of Congress, received the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year in 2023. For more than forty years, she has been a champion of intellectual freedom, working to support teachers and librarians in their fight to keep challenged books on their shelves. A Peabody Award winning documentary, Judy Blume Forever, and a major motion picture based on her iconic novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, are now streaming. In 2016, Blume and her husband founded an independent, nonprofit bookstore, Books & Books, in their hometown of Key West.
Established in 2010, The Lawrence A. Sanders Prize, made possible by the Lawrence Sanders Award Endowment, is given annually by the FIU Creative Writing Program to honor a writer of fiction whose work embodies wide appeal and literary excellence. This event is free and open to the public.
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