I had it in my head that the winner of this award had been announced ages ago, and I have a sneaky feeling it was meant to have been.
Anyway, Sufjan Stevens has won the New Pantheon Award, the new US based Mercury Music Prize type award that kind of replaces the short lived Shortlist Music Prize (sort of, in that the New Pantheon was set up by one of the two Shortlist co-founders, the other co-founder claiming that the Shortlist Music Prize would return - it's all a bit confusing really).
Stevens' album 'Illinois' beat nine others to win the prize, which aims to promote and celebrate recent long players that sold less than 500,000 copies in the US. There was no ceremony to mark the winner announcement because of "logistical problems", but the singer does get five grand prize money.