Patricia Lockwood wins $10,000 Gabe Hudson Prize for a dark, comic COVID-19 novel

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author Patricia Lockwood is this year’s winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator and editor and given for fiction that demonstrates “humor, pathos, and a deep understanding of contemporary America.” Lockwood was cited for “Will There Ever Be Another You,” a dark and comic novel about a woman’s breakdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. “Sentences and passages flash us with beauty or leave us reeling with laughter,” the judges’ citation reads in part. “There 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.” The Hudson prize was established in 2024 by his mother, Sanchia Semere, and is administered by the publisher McSweeney’s. Hudson, who died in 2023 at age 52, was known and admired for such fiction as “Dear Mr. President,” for his work as an editor...