Orange is not the only fruit: why book prizes, not sponsors, matter to writers | Books | The Guardian:
"To step up and receive the cheque and the statuette and believe you have written the "best" book is to be delusional. What winning means is money: not money to buy a diamond ring, but to be able to push aside everything else that interferes with writing books. "
Hear, hear! Yeats on hearing he'd won the Nobel: How much? Perfect.
Alas, with most prizes, like the Oregon Book Award, the money is insignificant. It's more about ... what? Prestige? Something to put on your resume? Some Oregon awards offer "real money," like the Oregon Arts Commission fellowships (I won twice, once for fiction, once for drama, both in the 1980s. I think I'm the only Oregon writer to win in two writing forms.). But it's always a crap shoot.
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