Granted through the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Strauss Living Award will provide two living writers with $100,000 a year for two years; whereas the award was based on Harold Strauss, the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and the one who introduced postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences,
Granted through the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Strauss Living Award (founded in 1981) provides two living writers with $100,000 a year for two years. Harold Strauss (19071975) was editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. from 1942 until 1966. He is credited as introducing postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences with Jiro Osaragi's Homecoming and Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles in 1955. 
