Former BJ artist John Backderf won the Cleveland Arts Prize Mid-Career Award.
His autobiographical graphic novel “My Friend Dahmer,”
the story of his junior high and high school friendship with future serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer was turned into a movie, released last year and filmed
partially at Dahmer’s childhood home in Bath.
Derf grew up in Richfield.
Poet and Akron native Rita Dove won the 2018 Cleveland
Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dove won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for “Thomas and
Beulah,” poems about life in Akron as witnessed by her grandparents.
She was named Poet Laureate of the United States in
1993, the youngest ever at age 40 and the first African-American.
She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the
University of Virginia.
The 58th annual awards ceremony will be October 21 at
the Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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