THE DAPHNE AWARDS
The Daphne Awards are named after the nymph who turned into a laurel tree in mythology. Founded in 2014 by Bookslut's creator Jessa Crispin, they are made to revisit the literary awards of 50 years ago. The 2014 awards revisit the 1964 awards, which actually awarded the best books of 1963, as it happens. They were inspired by the frustration with awards that so frequently go to the mediocre and the safe, and the realization that often times truly transformative work takes years or decades to be acknowledged and embraced.
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