Amy HIllgren Peterson, 33, has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
July 21, 2005 (Press Release) --
Sioux City novelist Amy Hillgren Peterson, 33, has
won an award from an organization that focuses
attention on multicultural diversity in American
writing.
Her first novel, "The Swedish Lie," was picked as one
of the winners of the 2005 American Book Award by the
Oakland, Calif.-based Before Columbus Foundation.
The American Book Awards, in its 26th year, honors
outstanding literary achievement by contemporary
American authors. The Before Columbus Foundation was
founded in 1976 as a non-profit organization, to
promote and disseminate contemporary American
multicultural literature.
"The Swedish Lie" chronicles four generations of the
Larsons, a Swedish-American family in South Dakota.
When Henny, a Generation X woman of the fourth
generation, finds her great-grandmother's journals,
her life begins to make sense. The novel follows the
story of Victoria, the great grandmother who becomes a
frontier woman as a teenager; Peder, her son who
becomes man of the house at the age of eight and sees
the growth of his town in rural South Dakota as the
local grocer; Matthias, whose coming of age in the
rock and roll '50s signals a shift in the values of
this close-knit community, and Henny, whose
post-modern young adulthood is filled with choices but
void of direction.
Hillgren Peterson will be honored at an American Book
Award ceremony on September 4 during the Arts and Soul
Festival in Oakland.
An award winning, independent author, she is seeking
sponsorship assistance to cover her travel expenses of
plane fare and lodging when she attends the ceremony.
won an award from an organization that focuses
attention on multicultural diversity in American
writing.
Her first novel, "The Swedish Lie," was picked as one
of the winners of the 2005 American Book Award by the
Oakland, Calif.-based Before Columbus Foundation.
The American Book Awards, in its 26th year, honors
outstanding literary achievement by contemporary
American authors. The Before Columbus Foundation was
founded in 1976 as a non-profit organization, to
promote and disseminate contemporary American
multicultural literature.
"The Swedish Lie" chronicles four generations of the
Larsons, a Swedish-American family in South Dakota.
When Henny, a Generation X woman of the fourth
generation, finds her great-grandmother's journals,
her life begins to make sense. The novel follows the
story of Victoria, the great grandmother who becomes a
frontier woman as a teenager; Peder, her son who
becomes man of the house at the age of eight and sees
the growth of his town in rural South Dakota as the
local grocer; Matthias, whose coming of age in the
rock and roll '50s signals a shift in the values of
this close-knit community, and Henny, whose
post-modern young adulthood is filled with choices but
void of direction.
Hillgren Peterson will be honored at an American Book
Award ceremony on September 4 during the Arts and Soul
Festival in Oakland.
An award winning, independent author, she is seeking
sponsorship assistance to cover her travel expenses of
plane fare and lodging when she attends the ceremony.
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