Campus Read Books Available At Pius, Medical Center and Law Libraries

08/30/2022

The 2023 Literary Award programming will be kicking off with the Campus Read novel, Neil Gaiman's "Stardust." 

Copies are now available for free to the SLU campus at the patron desks of all of the University Libraries.  Neil Gaiman personally endorsed this book as "perfect" for the program this year.

Saint Louis University Library Associates announced this summer that Neil Gaiman will receive the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award. Gaiman will come to St. Louis next spring to accept the award. 

The Dictionary of Literary Biography lists Gaiman as one of the top ten living post-modern writers. He is a prolific author of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.

The award ceremony will be held on April 13, 2023, at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Tickets sales to attend in-person or online will begin later this fall.

A craft talk will take place on April 14 on the campus of Saint Louis University.

The St. Louis Literary Award is presented annually by the Saint Louis University Library Associates and has become one of the top literary prizes in the country. The award honors a writer who deepens our insight into the human condition and expands the scope of our compassion. Some of the most important writers of the 20th and 21st centuries have come to Saint Louis University to accept the honor, including Margaret Atwood, Salmon Rushdie, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Saul Bellow, August Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, Zadie Smith and Tom Wolfe.