Jump to content

American Book Awards: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Added previous winner MacKenzie Bezos/Scott since her award was in the media release cited with fellow already listed previous recipient Toni Morrison
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
→2011[9]: Added hyperlink
 
(19 intermediate revisions by 14 users not shown)
Line 41: Line 41:
}}
}}


The '''American Book Award''' is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."<ref name=aba2010>
The '''American Book Award''' is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."<ref name="aba2010">
[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABApressrelease10.pdf "For Immediate Release:"] (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713094141/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABApressrelease10.pdf |date=July 13, 2014 }}</ref>
[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABApressrelease10.pdf "For Immediate Release:"] (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713094141/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABApressrelease10.pdf|date=July 13, 2014}}</ref>


The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit [[Before Columbus Foundation]], which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980.<ref name=pre2001>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Aba2001prior.pdf |title= Previous Winners of the American Book Award |date= 2002 |access-date= September 13, 2014 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/about |title= About |access-date= September 13, 2014 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation }}</ref> The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/american-book-awards-2 |title= American Book Awards |access-date= September 13, 2014 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140913173851/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/american-book-awards-2/ |archive-date= September 13, 2014 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, poets, and historians such as [[Toni Morrison]], [[Edward Said]], [[MacKenzie Bezos]], [[Isabel Allende]], [[bell hooks]], [[Don DeLillo]], [[Derrick Bell]], [[Robin D. G. Kelley]], [[Joy Harjo]] and [[Tommy J. Curry]].
The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit [[Before Columbus Foundation]], which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980.<ref name="pre2001">{{Cite web |date=2002 |title=Previous Winners of the American Book Award |url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Aba2001prior.pdf |access-date=September 13, 2014 |publisher=Before Columbus Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/about |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913192523/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/about |archive-date=September 13, 2014 |access-date=September 13, 2014 |publisher=Before Columbus Foundation}}</ref> The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Book Awards |url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/american-book-awards-2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913173851/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/american-book-awards-2/ |archive-date=September 13, 2014 |access-date=September 13, 2014 |publisher=Before Columbus Foundation |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, philosophers, poets, and historians such as [[Toni Morrison]], [[Edward Said]], [[MacKenzie Bezos]], [[Isabel Allende]], [[bell hooks]], [[Don DeLillo]], [[Derrick Bell]], [[Robin Kelley]], [[Joy Harjo]] and [[Tommy J. Curry]].


==National Book Awards==
==National Book Awards==
In 1980, the unrelated [[National Book Awards]] was renamed American Book Awards. In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards.<ref name=nbahistory>[http://www.nationalbook.org/aboutus_history.html "History Of The National Book Awards"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.</ref> Other than having the same name during this seven-year period, the two awards have no relation.
In 1980, the unrelated [[National Book Award|National Book Awards]] was renamed American Book Awards. In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards.<ref name="nbahistory">[http://www.nationalbook.org/aboutus_history.html "History Of The National Book Awards"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.</ref> Other than having the same name during this seven-year period, the two awards have no relation.


==Recipients==
==Recipients==


===1980 to 1989===
===1980s===


;1980
==== 1980 ====


* [[Douglas Woolf]] for ''Future Preconditional: A Collection''
* [[Douglas Woolf]] for ''Future Preconditional: A Collection''
Line 64: Line 64:
* [[Rudolfo Anaya]] for ''Tortuga'', a novel
* [[Rudolfo Anaya]] for ''Tortuga'', a novel


'''1981'''
==== 1981 ====


* [[Alta (poet)|Alta]] for ''Shameless Hussy''
* [[Alta (poet)|Alta]] for ''Shameless Hussy''
Line 79: Line 79:
* [[Toni Cade Bambara]] for ''[[The Salt Eaters]]''
* [[Toni Cade Bambara]] for ''[[The Salt Eaters]]''


'''1982'''
==== 1982 ====


* [[Al Young]] for ''Bodies and Soul''
* [[Al Young]] for ''Bodies and Soul''
Line 95: Line 95:
* [[Tato Laviera]] for ''Enclave''
* [[Tato Laviera]] for ''Enclave''


'''1983'''
==== 1983 ====


* [[Barbara Christian]] for ''Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976''
* [[Barbara Christian]] for ''Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976''
Line 110: Line 110:
* [[Seán Ó Tuama]] for ''An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed''
* [[Seán Ó Tuama]] for ''An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed''


'''1984'''
==== 1984 ====


* [[Cecil Brown (writer)|Cecil Brown]] for ''Days Without Weather''
* [[Cecil Brown (writer)|Cecil Brown]] for ''Days Without Weather''
Line 120: Line 120:
* [[Maurice Kenny]] for ''The Mama Poems''
* [[Maurice Kenny]] for ''The Mama Poems''
* [[Mei-mei Berssenbrugge]] for ''The heat bird''
* [[Mei-mei Berssenbrugge]] for ''The heat bird''
* [[Miné Okubo]] for ''Citizen 13660''
* [[Miné Okubo]] for ''[[Citizen 13660]]''
* [[Paule Marshall]] for ''[[Praisesong for the Widow]]''
* [[Paule Marshall]] for ''[[Praisesong for the Widow]]''
* [[Ruthanne Lum McCunn]], [[You-shan Tang]], [[Ellen Lai-shan Yeung]] for ''Pie-Biter''
* [[Ruthanne Lum McCunn]], [[You-shan Tang]], [[Ellen Lai-shan Yeung]] for ''Pie-Biter''
Line 127: Line 127:
* [[William Kennedy (author)|William J. Kennedy]] for ''O Albany!''
* [[William Kennedy (author)|William J. Kennedy]] for ''O Albany!''


'''1985'''
==== 1985 ====


* [[Angela Jackson]] for ''Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E''
* [[Angela Jackson]] for ''Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E''
Line 145: Line 145:
* [[William Oandasan]] for ''Round Valley Songs''
* [[William Oandasan]] for ''Round Valley Songs''


'''1986'''
==== 1986 ====


* [[Anna Lee Walters]] for ''The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories''
* [[Anna Lee Walters]] for ''The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories''
Line 159: Line 159:
* [[Toshio Mori]] for ''Yokohama, California''
* [[Toshio Mori]] for ''Yokohama, California''


'''1987'''
==== 1987 ====


* [[Ai (poet)|Ai]] for ''SIN''
* [[Ai (poet)|Ai]] for ''SIN''
* [[Ana Castillo]] for ''The Mixquiahuala Letters''
* [[Ana Castillo]] for ''The Mixquiahuala Letters''
* [[Cyn Zarco]] for ''Cir'cum.nav'i.ga'tion''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zarco |first1=Cyn |title=Cir'cum.nav'i.ga'tion |date=1986 |publisher=Tooth of Time Books |isbn=978-0-940510-13-5 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Cyn Zarco]] for ''Circumnavigations''
* [[Daniel McGuire]] for ''Portrait of Little Boy in darkness''
* [[Daniel McGuire]] for ''Portrait of Little Boy in darkness''
* [[Dorothy Bryant]] for ''Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow''
* [[Dorothy Bryant]] for ''Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow''
Line 173: Line 173:
* [[Juan Felipe Herrera]] for ''Face Games''
* [[Juan Felipe Herrera]] for ''Face Games''
* [[Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum]] for ''liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy''
* [[Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum]] for ''liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy''
* [[Michael Mayo]] for ''Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry''
* [[Michael Mayo (poet)|Michael Mayo]] for ''Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry''
* [[Septima Poinsette Clark]], [[Cynthia Stokes Brown]] for ''Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative''
* [[Septima Poinsette Clark]], [[Cynthia Stokes Brown]] for ''Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative''
* [[Terry McMillan]] for ''Mama''
* [[Terry McMillan]] for ''Mama''


'''1988'''
==== 1988 ====


* [[Allison Blakely]] for ''Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought''
* [[Allison Blakely]] for ''Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought''
Line 194: Line 194:
* [[Wing Tek Lum]], [[Tek Lum Lum]] for ''Expounding the Doubtful Points''
* [[Wing Tek Lum]], [[Tek Lum Lum]] for ''Expounding the Doubtful Points''


'''1989'''
==== 1989 ====


* [[Alma Luz Villanueva]] for ''The Ultraviolet Sky''
* [[Alma Luz Villanueva]] for ''The Ultraviolet Sky''
Line 213: Line 213:
* [[William Minoru Hohri]] for ''Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress''
* [[William Minoru Hohri]] for ''Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress''


===1990 to 1999===
===1990s===


'''1990'''
==== 1990 ====


* [[Adrienne Kennedy]] for ''People Who Led to My Plays''
* [[Adrienne Kennedy]] for ''People Who Led to My Plays''
Line 235: Line 235:
* [[Shirley Geok-lin Lim]], [[Mayumi Tsutakawa]], [[Margarita Donnelly]] for ''The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology''
* [[Shirley Geok-lin Lim]], [[Mayumi Tsutakawa]], [[Margarita Donnelly]] for ''The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology''


'''1991'''
==== 1991 ====


* [[Alejandro Murguía]] for ''Southern Front''
* [[Alejandro Murguía]] for ''Southern Front''
Line 255: Line 255:
* [[Thomas Centolella]] for ''Terra Firma''
* [[Thomas Centolella]] for ''Terra Firma''


'''1992'''
==== 1992 ====


* [[A'Lelia Perry Bundles]] for ''Madam C.J. Walker''
* [[A'Lelia Perry Bundles]] for ''Madam C.J. Walker''
Line 271: Line 271:
* [[Sandra Scofield]] for ''Beyond Deserving''
* [[Sandra Scofield]] for ''Beyond Deserving''
* [[Sheila Hamanaka]] for ''Journey''
* [[Sheila Hamanaka]] for ''Journey''
* [[Stephen R. Fox]] for ''The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II''
* Stephen R. Fox for ''The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II''
* [[Steven R. Carter]] for ''Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,''
* Steven R. Carter for ''Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,''
* [[Verlyn Klinkenborg]] for ''[[The Last Fine Time]]''
* [[Verlyn Klinkenborg]] for ''[[The Last Fine Time]]''
* [[William B. Branch]], [[Amiri Baraka]], [[August Wilson]] for ''Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama''
* [[William B. Branch]], [[Amiri Baraka]], [[August Wilson]] for ''Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama''


'''1993'''
==== 1993 ====


* [[Asake Bomani]], [[Belvie Rooks]] for ''Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris''
* [[Asake Bomani]], [[Belvie Rooks]] for ''Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris''
Line 292: Line 292:
* [[Ninotchka Rosca]] for ''[[Twice Blessed]]'', a novel
* [[Ninotchka Rosca]] for ''[[Twice Blessed]]'', a novel


'''1994'''
==== 1994 ====


* [[Giose Rimanelli]] for ''Benedetta in Guysterland''
* [[Giose Rimanelli]] for ''Benedetta in Guysterland''
Line 308: Line 308:
* [[Virginia L. Kroll]] for ''Wood-Hoopoe Willie''
* [[Virginia L. Kroll]] for ''Wood-Hoopoe Willie''


'''1995'''
==== 1995 ====


* [[Abraham Rodriguez (novelist)|Abraham Rodriguez]] for ''Spidertown'', a novel
* [[Abraham Rodriguez (novelist)|Abraham Rodriguez]] for ''Spidertown'', a novel
Line 325: Line 325:
* [[Tricia Rose]] for ''[[Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America]]''
* [[Tricia Rose]] for ''[[Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America]]''


'''1996'''
==== 1996 ====


* [[Agate Nesaule]] for ''[[A Woman in Amber|A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile]]''
* [[Agate Nesaule]] for ''[[A Woman in Amber|A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile]]''
Line 341: Line 341:
* Ron Sakolsky, [[Fred Weihan Ho]] for ''Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution''
* Ron Sakolsky, [[Fred Weihan Ho]] for ''Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution''
* [[Stephanie Cowell]] for ''The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke''
* [[Stephanie Cowell]] for ''The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke''
* [[William H. Gass]] for ''[[The Tunnel (novel)|The Tunnel]]''
* [[William H. Gass]] for ''[[The Tunnel (Gass novel)|The Tunnel]]''


'''1997'''
==== 1997 ====


* [[Alurista]] for ''Et Tu ... Raza''
* [[Alurista]] for ''Et Tu ... Raza''
Line 360: Line 360:
* [[Brenda Knight]] for ''Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution''
* [[Brenda Knight]] for ''Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution''


'''1998'''
==== 1998 ====


* [[Allison Adelle Hedge Coke]] for ''Dog Road Woman''
* [[Allison Adelle Hedge Coke]] for ''Dog Road Woman''
Line 374: Line 374:
* [[Thomas Lynch (poet)|Thomas Lynch]] for ''The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade''
* [[Thomas Lynch (poet)|Thomas Lynch]] for ''The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade''


'''1999'''
==== 1999 ====


* [[Alice McDermott]] for ''Charming Billy''
* [[Alice McDermott]] for ''Charming Billy''
Line 396: Line 396:
* [[Chiori Santiago]], author, [[Judith Lowry (artist)|Judith Lowry]], illustrator, ''Home to Medicine Mountain''<ref name=booksellers>{{cite web |author=American Booksellers Association |title=The American Book Awards&nbsp;/&nbsp;Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013] |year=2013 |url=http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |work=BookWeb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174235/http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2013}}<br />The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.</ref>
* [[Chiori Santiago]], author, [[Judith Lowry (artist)|Judith Lowry]], illustrator, ''Home to Medicine Mountain''<ref name=booksellers>{{cite web |author=American Booksellers Association |title=The American Book Awards&nbsp;/&nbsp;Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013] |year=2013 |url=http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |work=BookWeb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174235/http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2013}}<br />The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.</ref>


===2000 to 2009===
===2000s===


;2000
==== 2000 ====
* [[Esther G. Belin]] for ''From the Belly of My Beauty''
* [[Esther G. Belin]] for ''From the Belly of My Beauty''
* [[Allan J. Ryan]] for ''The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art''
* [[Allan J. Ryan]] for ''The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art''
Line 422: Line 422:
* [[Robert Creeley]],<ref name=booksellers/> Lifetime Achievement
* [[Robert Creeley]],<ref name=booksellers/> Lifetime Achievement


;2001
==== 2001 ====
* [[Amanda J. Cobb]] for ''Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949''
* [[Amanda J. Cobb]] for ''Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949''
* [[Andrea Dworkin]] for ''Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation''
* [[Andrea Dworkin]] for ''Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation''
Line 443: Line 443:
* [[Philip Whalen]]<ref name=booksellers/> Lifetime Achievement
* [[Philip Whalen]]<ref name=booksellers/> Lifetime Achievement


;2002<ref name=ankn/>
==== 2002<ref name=ankn/> ====
* [[Aaron A. Abeyta]], ''Colcha''
* [[Aaron A. Abeyta]], ''Colcha''
* [[Susanne Antonetta]], ''The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir''
* [[Susanne Antonetta]], ''The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir''
Line 459: Line 459:
* [[Jack Hirschman]], Lifetime Achievement<!-- booksellers lists ''Front Lines'' -->
* [[Jack Hirschman]], Lifetime Achievement<!-- booksellers lists ''Front Lines'' -->


;2003<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2003 this source includes blurbs on the winners, perhaps literally the awards presentation program (see 2004) -->
==== 2003<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2003 this source includes blurbs on the winners, perhaps literally the awards presentation program (see 2004) --> ====
* [[Kevin Baker (author)|Kevin Baker]], ''Paradise Alley''
* [[Kevin Baker (author)|Kevin Baker]], ''Paradise Alley''
* [[Debra Magpie Earling]], ''Perma Red''
* [[Debra Magpie Earling]], ''Perma Red''
Line 468: Line 468:
* [[Jack Newfield]], ''The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania''
* [[Jack Newfield]], ''The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania''
* [[Joseph Papaleo]], ''Italian Stories''
* [[Joseph Papaleo]], ''Italian Stories''
* [[Eric Porter]], ''What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists''
* [[Eric Porter (historian)|Eric Porter]], ''What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists''
* [[Jewell Parker Rhodes]], ''Douglass' Women'', a novel
* [[Jewell Parker Rhodes]], ''Douglass' Women'', a novel
* [[Rachel Simon]], ''Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey''
* [[Rachel Simon]], ''Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey''
Line 474: Line 474:
* [[Max Rodriguez]], ''QBR: The Black Book Review''
* [[Max Rodriguez]], ''QBR: The Black Book Review''


;2004<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2004 this source is the awards program which includes blurbs on the winners -->
==== 2004<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2004 this source is the awards program which includes blurbs on the winners --> ====
* [[Diana Abu-Jaber]], ''Crescent'', a novel
* [[Diana Abu-Jaber]], ''Crescent'', a novel
* [[David D. Cole|David Cole]], ''Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism''
* [[David D. Cole|David Cole]], ''Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism''
Line 486: Line 486:
* [[Michael Walsh (author)|Michael Walsh]], ''And All the Saints''
* [[Michael Walsh (author)|Michael Walsh]], ''And All the Saints''


;2005<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2005 this source is the awards program which includes blurbs on the winners -->
==== 2005<ref name=ankn/> <!-- for 2005 this source is the awards program which includes blurbs on the winners --> ====
* [[Bernard W. Bell]], ''The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches''
* [[Bernard W. Bell]], ''The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches''
* [[Cecelie Berry]], ''Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood''
* [[Cecelie Berry]], ''Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood''
Line 501: Line 501:
* Journalism: [[Bill Berkowitz]]
* Journalism: [[Bill Berkowitz]]


;2006<ref name=ankn/>
==== 2006<ref name=ankn/> ====
* [[MacKenzie Bezos]], ''[[The Testing of Luther Albright]]'', a novel
* [[MacKenzie Bezos]], ''[[The Testing of Luther Albright]]'', a novel
* [[Matt Briggs]], ''Shoot the Buffalo''
* [[Matt Briggs]], ''Shoot the Buffalo''
Line 518: Line 518:
* [[Jay Wright (poet)|Jay Wright]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[Jay Wright (poet)|Jay Wright]], Lifetime Achievement


;2007
==== 2007 ====
* [[Daniel Cassidy]], ''How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads''
* [[Daniel Cassidy]], ''How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads''
* [[Michael Eric Dyson]], ''Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster''
* [[Michael Eric Dyson]], ''Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster''
Line 530: Line 530:
* [[Kali VanBaale]], ''The Space Between''
* [[Kali VanBaale]], ''The Space Between''


;2008<ref name=booksellers/>
==== 2008<ref name=booksellers/> ====
* [[Moustafa Bayoumi]], ''How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America''
* [[Moustafa Bayoumi]], ''How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America''
* [[Douglas A. Blackmon]], ''[[Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II]]''
* [[Douglas A. Blackmon]], ''[[Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II]]''
Line 547: Line 547:
* [[J. J. Phillips]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[J. J. Phillips]], Lifetime Achievement


;2009
==== 2009 ====
* [[Houston A. Baker, Jr.]], ''Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era''
* [[Houston A. Baker, Jr.]], ''Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era''
* [[Danit Brown]], ''Ask for a Convertible''
* [[Danit Brown]], ''Ask for a Convertible''
Line 562: Line 562:
* [[Miguel Algarín]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[Miguel Algarín]], Lifetime Achievement


===2010 to 2019===
===2010s===


;2010<ref name=booksellers/>
==== 2010<ref name=booksellers/> ====
* [[Amiri Baraka]], ''Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music''
* [[Amiri Baraka]], ''Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music''
* [[Sherwin Bitsui]], ''Flood Song''
* [[Sherwin Bitsui]], ''Flood Song''
Line 581: Line 581:
* [[Quincy Troupe]], Lifetime Achievement <!-- booksellers lists no particular work; ''The Architecture of Language'' -->
* [[Quincy Troupe]], Lifetime Achievement <!-- booksellers lists no particular work; ''The Architecture of Language'' -->


;2011<ref>[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/archive/2011/aba_winners2011.html "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508074557/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/archive/2011/aba_winners2011.html |date=May 8, 2012 }}. Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</ref>
==== 2011<ref>[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/archive/2011/aba_winners2011.html "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508074557/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/archive/2011/aba_winners2011.html |date=May 8, 2012 }}. Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</ref> ====

* [[Keith Gilyard]], ''John Oliver Killens''
* [[Keith Gilyard]], ''John Oliver Killens''
* [[Akbar Ahmed]], ''Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam''
* [[Akbar Ahmed]], ''Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam''
* [[Camille Dungy]], ''Suck on the Marrow''
* [[Camille Dungy]], ''Suck on the Marrow''
* [[Karen Tei Yamashita]], ''I Hotel''
* [[Karen Tei Yamashita]], ''[[I Hotel (novel)|I Hotel]]''
* [[William W. Cook]] and James Tatum, ''African American Writers and Classical Tradition'' <!-- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/faculty/tatum.html --><!-- http://blog.sfgate.com/reed/2009/06/07/william-w-cook-dartmouths-legendary-prof/ -->
* [[William W. Cook]] and James Tatum, ''African American Writers and Classical Tradition'' <!-- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/faculty/tatum.html --><!-- http://blog.sfgate.com/reed/2009/06/07/william-w-cook-dartmouths-legendary-prof/ -->
* [[Gerald Vizenor]], ''Shrouds of White Earth''
* [[Gerald Vizenor]], ''Shrouds of White Earth''
Line 598: Line 599:
* [[John A. Williams]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[John A. Williams]], Lifetime Achievement


;2012<ref name=booksellers/>
==== 2012<ref name=booksellers/> ====
* [[Annia Ciezadlo]], ''Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War''
* [[Annia Ciezadlo]], ''Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War''
* [[Arlene Kim]], ''What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?''
* [[Arlene Kim]], ''What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?''
Line 612: Line 613:
* [[Eugene B. Redmond]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[Eugene B. Redmond]], Lifetime Achievement


; 2013<ref name="bcf2013">[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABA2013PressRelease.pdf "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the&nbsp;... {2013 winners}"]. Before Columbus Foundation. Press release September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204014506/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABA2013PressRelease.pdf |date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref>
==== 2013<ref name="bcf2013">[http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABA2013PressRelease.pdf "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the&nbsp;... {2013 winners}"]. Before Columbus Foundation. Press release September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204014506/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/press_releases/ABA2013PressRelease.pdf |date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref> ====

* [[Will Alexander (poet)|Will Alexander]], ''Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture'', Essay Press
* [[Will Alexander (poet)|Will Alexander]], ''Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture'', Essay Press
* [[Jacob M. Appel]], ''The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up'', Cargo
* [[Jacob M. Appel]], ''The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up'', Cargo
Line 632: Line 634:
* [[Floyd Salas]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[Floyd Salas]], Lifetime Achievement


; 2014<ref name=35th>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ABA2014PR.pdf |title= (For Immediate Release)&nbsp;... Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards |date= August 18, 2014 |access-date= September 7, 2014 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation }}</ref>
==== 2014<ref name=35th>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ABA2014PR.pdf |title= (For Immediate Release)&nbsp;... Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards |date= August 18, 2014 |access-date= September 7, 2014 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation }}</ref> ====

* [[Andrew Bacevich]], ''Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country'', Metropolitan Books
* [[Andrew Bacevich]], ''Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country'', Metropolitan Books
* Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., ''Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party'', University of California Press
* Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., ''Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party'', University of California Press
Line 650: Line 653:
* [[Michael Parenti]], Lifetime Achievement<!-- copy and paste plus naive markup (bullets *, links [[ ]], italics '' ''), nothing checked -->
* [[Michael Parenti]], Lifetime Achievement<!-- copy and paste plus naive markup (bullets *, links [[ ]], italics '' ''), nothing checked -->


; 2015<ref name=36th>{{Cite web |url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2015-american-book-awards/ |title= (For Immediate Release)&nbsp;... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards |date= July 20, 2015 |access-date= September 7, 2015 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation }}</ref>
==== 2015<ref name=36th>{{Cite web |url= http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2015-american-book-awards/ |title= (For Immediate Release)&nbsp;... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards |date= July 20, 2015 |access-date= September 7, 2015 |publisher= Before Columbus Foundation |archive-date= July 23, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150723235549/http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2015-american-book-awards/ |url-status= dead }}</ref> ====

* [[Hisham Aidi]], ''Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture'' (Vintage)
* [[Hisham Aidi]], ''Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture'' (Vintage)
* [[Arlene Biala]], ''her beckoning hands'' (Word Poetry)
* [[Arlene Biala]], ''her beckoning hands'' (Word Poetry)
Line 665: Line 669:
* [[Astra Taylor]], ''[[The People's Platform|The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age]]'' (Henry Holt)
* [[Astra Taylor]], ''[[The People's Platform|The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age]]'' (Henry Holt)
* [[Anne Waldman]], Lifetime Achievement
* [[Anne Waldman]], Lifetime Achievement

'''2016'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ABA-press-release-2016-final.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards|date=August 12, 2016}}</ref>
==== 2016<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ABA-press-release-2016-final.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards|date=August 12, 2016}}</ref> ====


* [[Laura Da']], ''Tributaries'' (University of Arizona)
* [[Laura Da']], ''Tributaries'' (University of Arizona)
Line 681: Line 686:
* [[Lyra Monteiro]] and [[Nancy Isenberg]], Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
* [[Lyra Monteiro]] and [[Nancy Isenberg]], Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
* [[Chiitaanibah Johnson]], Andrew Hope Award
* [[Chiitaanibah Johnson]], Andrew Hope Award

'''2017'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AmericanBookAwardPressRelease2017aba.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 4, 2017}}</ref>
==== 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AmericanBookAwardPressRelease2017aba.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 4, 2017}}</ref> ====


* [[Rabia Chaudry]] ''Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial'' (St. Martin's Press)
* [[Rabia Chaudry]] ''Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial'' (St. Martin's Press)
Line 701: Line 707:
* [[Nancy Mercado]] ''Lifetime Achievement''
* [[Nancy Mercado]] ''Lifetime Achievement''
* [[Ammiel Alcalay]] ''Editor/Publisher Award'': Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
* [[Ammiel Alcalay]] ''Editor/Publisher Award'': Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative

'''2018''' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ABA-press-release-2018.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Ninth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 13, 2018}}</ref>
==== 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ABA-press-release-2018.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Ninth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 13, 2018}}</ref> ====


* [[Thi Bui]] ''[[The Best We Could Do|The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir]]'' ([[Abrams Books|Harry N. Abrams]])
* [[Thi Bui]] ''[[The Best We Could Do|The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir]]'' ([[Abrams Books|Harry N. Abrams]])
Line 723: Line 730:
* [[Rob Rogers (cartoonist)|Rob Rogers]] Anti-Censorship Award
* [[Rob Rogers (cartoonist)|Rob Rogers]] Anti-Censorship Award
* [[Heroes Are Gang Leaders]] Oral Literature Award
* [[Heroes Are Gang Leaders]] Oral Literature Award

'''2019''' <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/American-Book-Awards-press-release-2019.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 19, 2019}}</ref>
==== 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/American-Book-Awards-press-release-2019.pdf|title=For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards|date=August 19, 2019}}</ref> ====


* [[Frank Abe]], [[Greg Robinson (writer)|Greg Robinson]], and [[Floyd Cheung]] ''John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy'' ([[University of Washington Press]])
* [[Frank Abe]], [[Greg Robinson (writer)|Greg Robinson]], and [[Floyd Cheung]] ''John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy'' ([[University of Washington Press]])
Line 741: Line 749:
* [[Moor Mother/Camae Ayewa|Moor Mother]] Oral Literature Award
* [[Moor Mother/Camae Ayewa|Moor Mother]] Oral Literature Award


===2020 to present===
===2020s===

==== 2020<ref>{{Cite web|last=Before Columbus Foundation|title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-first Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/American-Book-Awards-2020-Press-Release.pdf|access-date=20 September 2020|website=Before Columbus Foundation}}</ref> ====

{| class="wikitable"
! Author(s) !! Title !! Publisher
|-
| [[Reginald Dwayne Betts]] || ''Felon: Poems'' || W.W. Norton
|-
| [[Sara Borjas]] || ''Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff'' || Noemi Press
|-
| [[Neeli Cherkovski]], Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell (editors) || ''Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman'' || City Lights
|-
| [[Staceyann Chin]] || ''Crossfire: A Litany for Survival'' || Haymarket
|-
| [[Kali Fajardo-Anstine]] || ''Sabrina & Corina: Stories'' || One World
|-
| Tara Fickle || ''The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities'' || New York University Press
|-
| [[Erika Lee]] || ''America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States'' || Basic Books
|-
| [[Yōko Ogawa|Yoko Ogawa]] || ''[[The Memory Police]]'' || Pantheon
|-
| Jake Skeets || ''Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers'' || Milkweed Editions
|-
| [[George Takei]], Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker || ''They Called Us Enemy'' || Top Shelf Productions
|-
| [[Ocean Vuong]] || ''[[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]'' || Penguin
|-
| De'Shawn Charles Winslow || ''In West Mills'' || Bloomsbury Publishing
|-
| [[Albert Woodfox]] with Leslie George || ''Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope'' || Grove Press
|-
| [[Eleanor W. Traylor]] || Lifetime Achievement Award ||
|-
| Kofi Natambu || Editor Award: ''The Panopticon Review'' ||
|-
| Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr || Publisher Award: Commune Editions ||
|-
| Amalia Leticia Ortiz || Oral Literature Award ||
|-
| Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll (editors) || Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy'' ||
|}


'''2020'''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Before Columbus Foundation|title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-first Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS|url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/American-Book-Awards-2020-Press-Release.pdf|access-date=20 September 2020|website=Before Columbus Foundation}}</ref>
==== 2021<ref>{{Cite web |last=Before Columbus Foundation |title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS |url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |access-date=28 August 2021 |website=Before Columbus Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828104402/https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |archive-date=28 August 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ====


{| class="wikitable"
* [[Reginald Dwayne Betts]], ''Felon: Poems'' (W.W. Norton)
! Author(s) !! Title !! Publisher
* [[Sara Borjas]], ''Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff'' (Noemi Press)
|-
* [[Neeli Cherkovski]], Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, editors, ''Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman'' (City Lights)
| [[Ayad Akhtar]] || ''[[Homeland Elegies]]'' || Little, Brown & Co.
* [[Staceyann Chin]], ''Crossfire: A Litany for Survival'' (Haymarket)
|-
* [[Kali Fajardo-Anstine]], ''Sabrina & Corina: Stories'' (One World)
| Maisy Card || ''These Ghosts Are Family'' || Simon & Schuster
* Tara Fickle, ''The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities'' (New York University Press)
|-
* [[Erika Lee]], ''America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States'' (Basic Books)
| Anthony Cody || ''Borderland Apocrypha'' || Omnidawn Press
* [[Yōko Ogawa|Yoko Ogawa]], ''[[The Memory Police]]'' (Pantheon)
|-
* Jake Skeets, ''Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers'' (Milkweed Editions)
| [[Ben Ehrenreich]] || ''Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time'' || Counterpoint
* [[George Takei]], Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker, ''They Called Us Enemy'' (Top Shelf Productions)
|-
* [[Ocean Vuong]], ''[[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]'' (Penguin)
| Johanna Fernández || ''The Young Lords: A Radical History'' || University of North Carolina Press
* De'Shawn Charles Winslow, ''In West Mills'' (Bloomsbury Publishing)
|-
* [[Albert Woodfox]] with Leslie George, ''Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope'' (Grove Press)
| [[Carolyn Forché]] || ''In the Lateness of the World: Poems'' || Penguin Press
* Lifetime Achievement: Eleanor W. Traylor
|-
* Editor Award: ''The Panopticon Review'', Kofi Natambu, editor
| [[John Giorno]] || ''Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment'' || Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Publisher Award: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr, editors
|-
* Oral Literature Award: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
| [[Cathy Park Hong]] || ''[[Minor Feelings|Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning]]'' || One World
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy'', edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
|-
| Randall Horton || ''{#289-128}: Poems'' || University of Kentucky
|-
| [[Gerald Horne]] || ''The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century'' || Monthly Review Press
|-
| [[Robert P. Jones]] || ''White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity'' || Simon & Schuster
|-
| [[Judy Juanita]] || ''Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland'' || Equidistance Press
|-
| [[William Melvin Kelley]] (author), [[Aiki Kelley]] (illustrator) || ''Dunfords Travels Everywheres'' || Anchor Books
|-
| [[Maryemma Graham]] || Lifetime Achievement Award ||
|-
| [[Shana L. Redmond|Shana Redmond]] || Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson'' ||
|-
| Jacob Soboroff || Anti-Censorship Award: ''Separated: Inside an American Tragedy'' ||
|}


'''2021'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Before Columbus Foundation |title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS |url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |access-date=28 August 2021 |website=Before Columbus Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828104402/https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |archive-date=28 August 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
====2022<ref>{{Cite web |last=Before Columbus Foundation |title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Third Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS |url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |access-date=8 September 2022 |website=Before Columbus Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908182456/https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |archive-date=8 September 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ====


{| class="wikitable"
* [[Ayad Akhtar]], ''[[Homeland Elegies]]'' (Little, Brown & Co.)
! Author(s) !! Title !! Publisher
* Maisy Card, ''These Ghosts Are Family'' (Simon & Schuster)
|-
* Anthony Cody, ''Borderland Apocrypha'' (Omnidawn Press)
| [[Spencer Ackerman]] || ''[[Reign of Terror (book)|Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump]]'' || Viking
* [[Ben Ehrenreich]], ''Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time'' (Counterpoint)
|-
* Johanna Fernández, ''The Young Lords: A Radical History'' (University of North Carolina Press)
| Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster || ''The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature'' || University of Arizona Press
* [[Carolyn Forché]], ''In the Lateness of the World: Poems'' (Penguin Press)
|-
* [[John Giorno]], ''Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
| Emma Brodie || ''Songs in Ursa Major'' || Knopf
* [[Cathy Park Hong]], ''[[Minor Feelings|Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning]]'' (One World)
|-
* Randall Horton, ''{#289-128}: Poems'' (University of Kentucky)
| [[Daphne Brooks]] || ''Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound'' || Harvard University Press
* [[Gerald Horne]], ''The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century'' (Monthly Review Press)
|-
* [[Robert P. Jones]], ''White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity'' (Simon & Schuster)
| [[Myriam J. A. Chancy]] || ''What Storm, What Thunder'' || Tin House Books
* [[Judy Juanita]], ''Manhattan my ass, you’re in Oakland'' (Equidistance Press)
|-
* [[William Melvin Kelley]] (author), [[Aiki Kelley]] (illustrator), ''Dunfords Travels Everywheres'' (Anchor Books)
| [[Francisco Goldman]] || ''Monkey Boy'' || Grove Press
* Lifetime Achievement: [[Maryemma Graham]]
|-
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson'', by [[Shana L. Redmond|Shana Redmond]]
| [[Zakiya Dalila Harris]] || ''The Other Black Girl: A Novel'' || Atria Books
* Anti-Censorship Award: ''Separated: Inside an American Tragedy'', by Jacob Soboroff
|-
| [[Fatima Shaik]] || ''Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood'' || The Historic New Orleans Collection
|-
| [[Edwin Torres (poet)|Edwin Torres]] || ''Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing]'' || Roof Books
|-
| [[Truong Tran]] || ''Book of the Other: Small in Comparison'' || Kaya Press
|-
| [[Mai Der Vang]] || ''Yellow Rain'' || Graywolf Press
|-
| [[Phillip B. Williams]] || ''Mutiny'' || Penguin Books
|-
| [[Michelle Zauner]] || ''[[Crying in H Mart|Crying in H Mart: A Memoir]]'' || Knopf
|-
| [[Gayl Jones]] || Lifetime Achievement Award ||
|-
| Jessica E. Teague || Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Sound Recording Technology and American Literature'' ||
|-
| Jeffrey St. Clair || Anti-Censorship Award ||
|-
| Wave Books: Charlie Wright (Publisher) / Joshua Beckman (Editor in Chief) || Editor/Publisher Award ||
|}


==== 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |title=The American Book Award |accessdate=2024-02-04}}</ref> ====
'''2022'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Before Columbus Foundation |title=The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Third Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS |url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |access-date=8 September 2022 |website=Before Columbus Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908182456/https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/ |archive-date=8 September 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable"
* [[Spencer Ackerman]], ''[[Reign of Terror (book)|Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump]]'' (Viking)
! Author(s) !! Title !! Publisher
* Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster, editors, ''The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature'' (University of Arizona Press)
|-
* Emma Brodie, ''Songs in Ursa Major'' (Knopf)
| [[Ayanna Lloyd Banwo]] || ''When We Were Birds'' || Doubleday
* [[Daphne Brooks]], ''Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound'' (Harvard University Press)
|-
* [[Myriam J. A. Chancy]], ''What Storm, What Thunder'' (Tin House Books)
| Edgar Gomez || ''High-Risk Homosexual'' || Soft Skull
* [[Francisco Goldman]], ''Monkey Boy'' (Grove Press)
|-
* [[Zakiya Dalila Harris]], ''The Other Black Girl: A Novel'' (Atria Books)
| [[Kelly Lytle Hernández]] || ''Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands'' || W.W. Norton & Company
* [[Fatima Shaik]], ''Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood'' (The Historic New Orleans Collection)
|-
* [[Edwin Torres (poet)|Edwin Torres]], ''Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing]'' (Roof Books)
| Everett Hoagland || ''The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Reflection and Wonder'' || North Star Nova Press
* [[Truong Tran]], ''Book of the Other: Small in Comparison'' (Kaya Press)
|-
* [[Mai Der Vang]], ''Yellow Rain'' (Graywolf Press)
| [[Anne Hyde (historian)|Anne Hyde]] || ''Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West'' || W.W. Norton & Company
* [[Phillip B. Williams]], ''Mutiny'' (Penguin Books)
|-
* [[Michelle Zauner]], ''[[Crying in H Mart|Crying in H Mart: A Memoir]]'' (Knopf)
| [[Jamil Jan Kochai]] || ''The Haunting of Haji Hotak and Other Stories'' || Viking
* Lifetime Achievement: [[Gayl Jones]]
|-
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: ''Sound Recording Technology and American Literature'', by Jessica E. Teague
| Aidan Levy || ''Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins'' || Hachette Books
* Anti-Censorship Award: Jeffrey St. Clair
|-
* Editor/Publisher Award: Wave Books: Charlie Wright (Publisher) / Joshua Beckman (Editor in Chief)
| Bojan Louis || ''Sinking Bell: Stories'' || Gray Wolf Press
|-
| [[Leila Mottley]] || ''Nightcrawling'' || Knopf
|-
| [[Darryl Pinckney]] || ''Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan'' || Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|-
| Sherry Shenoda || ''Mummy Eaters'' || University of Nebraska Press
|-
| [[Mosab Abu Toha]] || ''Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza'' || City Lights Books
|-
| [[Javier Zamora]] || ''Solito: A Memoir'' || Hogarth
|-
| [[Maxine Hong Kingston]] || Lifetime Achievement Award ||
|-
| [[Neta Crawford]] || Anti-Censorship Award ||
|-
| [[Bell hooks]] || Walter & Lilliam Lowenfels Award for Criticism ||
|}


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 00:52, 29 October 2024

American Book Awards
Date1978–present
CountryUnited States
Hosted byBefore Columbus Foundation
Websitebeforecolumbusfoundation.com

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."[1]

The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980.[2][3] The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.[4] Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, philosophers, poets, and historians such as Toni Morrison, Edward Said, MacKenzie Bezos, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry.

National Book Awards

[edit]

In 1980, the unrelated National Book Awards was renamed American Book Awards. In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards.[5] Other than having the same name during this seven-year period, the two awards have no relation.

Recipients

[edit]

1980s

[edit]

1980

[edit]

1981

[edit]

1982

[edit]

1983

[edit]

1984

[edit]

1985

[edit]

1986

[edit]

1987

[edit]

1988

[edit]

1989

[edit]

1990s

[edit]

1990

[edit]

1991

[edit]

1992

[edit]

1993

[edit]

1994

[edit]

1995

[edit]

1996

[edit]

1997

[edit]

1998

[edit]

1999

[edit]

2000s

[edit]

2000

[edit]

2001

[edit]

2002[8]

[edit]

2003[8]

[edit]

2004[8]

[edit]

2005[8]

[edit]

2006[8]

[edit]

2007

[edit]

2008[7]

[edit]

2009

[edit]

2010s

[edit]

2010[7]

[edit]

2011[9]

[edit]

2012[7]

[edit]

2013[10]

[edit]

2014[11]

[edit]
  • Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books
  • Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press
  • Juan Delgado (poetry) and Thomas McGovern (photography), Vital Signs, Heyday Books
  • Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House[12]
  • Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press
  • Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Tanya Olson, Boyishly, YesYes Books
  • Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass, Third World Press
  • Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books
  • Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books
  • Margaret Wrinkle, Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Koon Woon, Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press
  • Armond White, Anti-Censorship Award
  • Michael Parenti, Lifetime Achievement

2015[13]

[edit]

2016[14]

[edit]

2017[15]

[edit]

2018[16]

[edit]

2019[17]

[edit]

2020s

[edit]

2020[18]

[edit]
Author(s) Title Publisher
Reginald Dwayne Betts Felon: Poems W.W. Norton
Sara Borjas Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff Noemi Press
Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell (editors) Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman City Lights
Staceyann Chin Crossfire: A Litany for Survival Haymarket
Kali Fajardo-Anstine Sabrina & Corina: Stories One World
Tara Fickle The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities New York University Press
Erika Lee America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Basic Books
Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police Pantheon
Jake Skeets Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers Milkweed Editions
George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker They Called Us Enemy Top Shelf Productions
Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Penguin
De'Shawn Charles Winslow In West Mills Bloomsbury Publishing
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope Grove Press
Eleanor W. Traylor Lifetime Achievement Award
Kofi Natambu Editor Award: The Panopticon Review
Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr Publisher Award: Commune Editions
Amalia Leticia Ortiz Oral Literature Award
Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll (editors) Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

2021[19]

[edit]
Author(s) Title Publisher
Ayad Akhtar Homeland Elegies Little, Brown & Co.
Maisy Card These Ghosts Are Family Simon & Schuster
Anthony Cody Borderland Apocrypha Omnidawn Press
Ben Ehrenreich Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time Counterpoint
Johanna Fernández The Young Lords: A Radical History University of North Carolina Press
Carolyn Forché In the Lateness of the World: Poems Penguin Press
John Giorno Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning One World
Randall Horton {#289-128}: Poems University of Kentucky
Gerald Horne The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century Monthly Review Press
Robert P. Jones White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Simon & Schuster
Judy Juanita Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland Equidistance Press
William Melvin Kelley (author), Aiki Kelley (illustrator) Dunfords Travels Everywheres Anchor Books
Maryemma Graham Lifetime Achievement Award
Shana Redmond Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
Jacob Soboroff Anti-Censorship Award: Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

2022[20]

[edit]
Author(s) Title Publisher
Spencer Ackerman Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump Viking
Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature University of Arizona Press
Emma Brodie Songs in Ursa Major Knopf
Daphne Brooks Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound Harvard University Press
Myriam J. A. Chancy What Storm, What Thunder Tin House Books
Francisco Goldman Monkey Boy Grove Press
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl: A Novel Atria Books
Fatima Shaik Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood The Historic New Orleans Collection
Edwin Torres Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing] Roof Books
Truong Tran Book of the Other: Small in Comparison Kaya Press
Mai Der Vang Yellow Rain Graywolf Press
Phillip B. Williams Mutiny Penguin Books
Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart: A Memoir Knopf
Gayl Jones Lifetime Achievement Award
Jessica E. Teague Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
Jeffrey St. Clair Anti-Censorship Award
Wave Books: Charlie Wright (Publisher) / Joshua Beckman (Editor in Chief) Editor/Publisher Award

2023[21]

[edit]
Author(s) Title Publisher
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo When We Were Birds Doubleday
Edgar Gomez High-Risk Homosexual Soft Skull
Kelly Lytle Hernández Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands W.W. Norton & Company
Everett Hoagland The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Reflection and Wonder North Star Nova Press
Anne Hyde Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West W.W. Norton & Company
Jamil Jan Kochai The Haunting of Haji Hotak and Other Stories Viking
Aidan Levy Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Hachette Books
Bojan Louis Sinking Bell: Stories Gray Wolf Press
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Knopf
Darryl Pinckney Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sherry Shenoda Mummy Eaters University of Nebraska Press
Mosab Abu Toha Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza City Lights Books
Javier Zamora Solito: A Memoir Hogarth
Maxine Hong Kingston Lifetime Achievement Award
Neta Crawford Anti-Censorship Award
Bell hooks Walter & Lilliam Lowenfels Award for Criticism

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. Archived July 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b "Previous Winners of the American Book Award" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. 2002. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  3. ^ "About". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  4. ^ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  5. ^ "History Of The National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Zarco, Cyn (1986). Cir'cum.nav'i.ga'tion. Tooth of Time Books. ISBN 978-0-940510-13-5.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
    The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.
  8. ^ a b c d e "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the American Book Awards" (Index to lists of winners through 2006). Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ankn.uaf.edu). Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  9. ^ "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards" Archived May 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  10. ^ "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the ... {2013 winners}". Before Columbus Foundation. Press release September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. Archived December 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. August 18, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  12. ^ "Alex Espinoza Wins American Book Award". huizachemag.org. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  13. ^ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  14. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 12, 2016.
  15. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 4, 2017.
  16. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Ninth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 13, 2018.
  17. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 19, 2019.
  18. ^ Before Columbus Foundation. "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-first Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  19. ^ Before Columbus Foundation. "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Second Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  20. ^ Before Columbus Foundation. "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-Third Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on September 8, 2022. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  21. ^ "The American Book Award". Retrieved February 4, 2024.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Book_Awards&oldid=1254012106"