Presented to: Bela Petsco
For: Nothing Very Important and Other Stories
The judges stated, "At a time when Wasatch-front Mormons find themselves an ever-smaller minority in the expanding Church, the work of Bela Petsco is a sign of the future among us." This collection, a series of linked stories featuring a central character, Mih�ly Agyar, an ethnic Hungarian from New York, is significant "not only because it is refreshing and insightful in its own right, but also because it is the first of its kind--an important modern fictional work by and about a Latter-day Saint reared outside of the Wasatch-front cultural tradition."