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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

1kidzdoc
apr 1, 2015, 2:55 pm

"The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. For over 80 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged our minds.

"Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for issues of social justice. Today it remains the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. Past winners have presented the extraordinary art and culture of peoples around the world, explored human-rights violations, exposed the effects of racism on children, reflected on growing up biracial, and illuminated the dignity of people as they search for justice.

"The Cleveland Foundation, the world’s first community foundation, has administered the Anisfield-Wolf prize since 1963. Before then, the Saturday Review sponsored the awards. From the early 1960s until 1996, internationally renowned anthropologist and author Ashley Montagu chaired the awards jury. That panel of globally prominent scholars and writers has since been overseen by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the acclaimed scholar, lecturer, social critic, writer, and editor."

The following books were chosen today as the winners of the 80th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards:

• Jericho Brown, The New Testament, Poetry
• Marilyn Chin, Hard Love Province, Poetry
David Brion Davis, Lifetime Achievement
• Richard S. Dunn, A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, Nonfiction
• Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Fiction

http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2015/04/meet-our-2015-winners/

2jennybhatt
apr 2, 2015, 2:42 am

A very interesting list there indeed. I haven't read any of them yet but have read the odd review. The poetry books look rather interesting -- must look into them.

Thanks for posting.

3bergs47
Bewerkt: mei 3, 2017, 10:01 am

CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 6, 2016) – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 81st Annual
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2016 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism
and examines diversity are:

Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Nonfiction
Mary Morris, The Jazz Palace, Fiction
Orlando Patterson, Lifetime Achievement
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven, Poetry
Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, Nonfiction

4bergs47
mei 3, 2017, 9:59 am

Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2017 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts
racism and examines diversity are:

Isabel Allende, Lifetime Achievement
Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes, Fiction
Tyehimba Jess, Olio, Poetry
Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs, Fiction
Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures, Nonfiction

5bergs47
jun 1, 2018, 6:55 am

From the Los Angeles Times

The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which honor outstanding books that address racism and diversity, will go this year to authors Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. Each will be awarded a prize of $10,000.

Ward won the fiction award for "Sing, Unburied, Sing," her acclaimed novel that also won a 2017 National Book Award. The novel tells the story of a 13-year-old Mississippi boy who goes on a road trip with his mother and sister to reunite with his father, who is scheduled to be released from prison.

The nonfiction prize goes to Young for his book "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News," which critic Colin Dickey called "a wild, incisive, exhilarating tour through Western culture's sideshows and dark corners" in a review for The Times. Young's book was also a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

McCrae will receive the poetry award for "In the Language of My Captor," a collection of verse that explores themes of freedom and captivity. The book was previously recognized with the 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

The lifetime achievement award is going to the legendary Native American novelist and poet Momaday, perhaps best known for his debut novel, "House Made of Dawn," which won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

6Pharmacdon
apr 3, 2022, 5:35 pm

2019 Fiction
Tommy Orange, There There

2019 Nonfiction
Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War

2019 Poetry
Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water

2019 Lifetime Achievement
Sonia Sanchez

7Pharmacdon
apr 3, 2022, 5:35 pm

2020 Fiction
Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

2020 Nonfiction
Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air

2020 Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

2020 Lifetime Achievement
Eric Foner

8Pharmacdon
Bewerkt: apr 3, 2022, 5:38 pm

2021 Fiction
James McBride, Deacon King Kong

2021 Nonfiction
Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive

2021 Nonfiction
Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt

2021 Poetry
Victoria Chang, Obit

2021 Lifetime Achievement
Samuel R. Delany