EXILE PRIZE CONTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 24

EXILE PRIZE CONTEST

United States traditional tewk pitality to fugitives from Qtjpression op persecution in Europe has recently taken an unusual form, says the chester Guardian?' Announcement 3aas been made in -New York of a scheme for their benefit called an "exile j>rize contest." Premiums amounting.-.to 4500 dollars are offered for the best literary works, whether fiction or nonfiction, submitted "before October. Compe'tilors may be persons ■-et any nationality who are in exile from Sfefeiir native land for political Treasons* but •all manuscripts must be in Oewnan. The contest has been organised by the American Guild for German CultuTai Freedom in co-operation with five publishers whose headquarters are ia Boston, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Leiden respectively. The judges wfll be Thomas Mann, Bruno Franks lion Feuehtwanger; .Alfred Neumann, and Rudolph Olden. The guild Is ah influential society, which lias Mr, Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of Connecticut,-a* the president, $Ir. Oswald, Garrison Villard as its treasurer, and Mr. ]£ S. Cariby, editor of the "Saturday Bevfew of Literature," as the chairman oi its Awards Committee.