Tony Kushner Wins Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement

Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright of Angels in America, will receive the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement. The prize will be presented at an event at the Symphony Center on November 8 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.

The politically aware and provocative playwright is being honored for a body of work that includes not only Angels, but also the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Munich, the racially charged musical Caroline, or Change, and his newest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, which debuted this past spring at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Playwrights who have been awarded this prize previously include Arthur Miller and August Wilson.

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