Martin Receives Carl Sandburg Literary Award

George R.R. Martin will receive the 2019 Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Martin will be honored at an awards dinner held October 10, 2019 at the Isadore & Sadie Dorin Forum on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. Previous winners of the award, which “recognizes the work of the world’s most heralded authors,” include Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Wolfe.

For more information, see the Chicago Public Library Foundation website.

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