{"id":5260,"date":"2026-07-19T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:07:05","slug":"patricia-lockwood-wins-gabe-hudson-prize-for-a-dark-comic-covid-19-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5260","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Lockwood wins Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>NEW YORK \u2014 Acclaimed author Patricia Lockwood is this year\u2019s winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator, and editor and given for fiction that demonstrates \u201chumor, pathos, and a deep understanding of contemporary America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5258\">Who will complement Milton Williams and Christian Barmore for the defensive line to remain a Patriots strength?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Lockwood was cited for \u201cWill There Ever Be Another You,\u201d a dark and comic novel about a woman\u2019s breakdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSentences and passages flash us with beauty or leave us reeling with laughter,\u201d the judges\u2019 citation reads in part. \u201dThere is so much pain in the book and yet there is no self-pity, instead there is a marvelous self-awareness as to how ridiculous it is to be human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Hudson prize was established in 2024 by his mother, Sanchia Semere, and is administered by the publisher McSweeney\u2019s. Hudson, who died in 2023 at age 52, was known and admired for such fiction as \u201cDear Mr. President,\u201d for his work as an editor at large at McSweeney\u2019s, and for his years as a teacher at Yonsei University in Korea, among other schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5256\">Ava DuVernay\u2019s \u201914th\u2019 documentary on Trump-contested birthright amendment<\/a><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Review: What happens when illness robs a writer of her words?<\/div>\n<p><span>Lockwood\u2019s other books include \u201cPriestdaddy,\u201d winner in 2018 of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the novel \u201cNo One Is Talking About This,\u201d shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. In a statement Thursday, Lockwood noted that she felt a kinship with Hudson, even though they never met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe was a truly generous literary citizen with a rich trajectory: a writer of funny, gut-punching stories, an inventive novelist, a cheerleader for others,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was a Marine, like my brother, and a teacher in South Korea, in the same neighborhood where my husband grew up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5254\">Taylor Swift put the spotlight on Watch Hill. But the pop star isn\u2019t center stage when she\u2019s in Rhode Island.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acclaimed author is this year\u2019s winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator, and editor and given for fiction that demonstrates \u201chumor, pathos, and a deep understanding of contemporary America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Patricia Lockwood wins Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel - Boston Relocation Insider<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5260\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patricia Lockwood wins Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel - 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