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Jacqueline Harmon Butler
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LUCCA, ITALY—Jacqueline Harmon Butler has received the Golden Linchetto Prize, Premio Mario Pannunzio, for the best foreign journalist with published articles about Lucca, in the Il Serenissimo Stato di Lucca in Carnevale Awards, for her story, "City Girl on a Small Farm in Tuscany"
The award was presented on 1 March 2003, at a gala held in the beautifully restored Palazzo Pfanner in Lucca. Two other foreign journalists (from England and Scotland) received awards, as did a number of Italian artists, writers, TV personalities, musicians and actors.
Butler’s story City Girl on a Small Farm in Tuscany, was first published in the Ottawa Citizen, Canada, then on the e-zine www.BootsnAll.com, and on www.wildwritingwomen.com in their Stories section. It was also featured on the e-zine www.Virtualitalia.com A portion of this story can be found in the new anthology Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, (Travelers’ Tales, April 2003).
Jacqueline Harmon Butler’s writing can be found in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Orleans Times Picayune, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald, the Toronto Star, Medical Economics magazine, among others. She is a contributing editor to the anthology, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, (Globe Pequot Press, April 2002) which recently won the National Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2002. She has just finished a novel, Sono Claudio, about a woman who thought her love life was over – until she traveled to Italy and fell in love with a much younger man. From Lucca to San Francisco, the hill towns of Tuscany and finally to Venice, their romance sizzles with excitement and drama.
In 2002 Ms. Butler received an International Press Award for Journalism, I, Leonardo Award; A Few Words About Sicily, for her story The Fire of Mt. Etna.
In between writing and travel, Jacqueline leads workshop classes in food and travel writing.