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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, poets, and historians such as Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry.

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.[5] Other than having the same name during this seven-year period, the two awards have no relation.

Recipients

1980 to 1989

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990 to 1999

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000 to 2009

2000
2001
2002[7]
2003[7]
2004[7]
2005[7]
2006[7]
2007
2008[6]
2009

2010 to 2019

2010[6]
2011[8]
2012[6]
2013[9]
2014[10]
  • 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[11]
  • 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[12]

2016[13]

2017[14]

  • Rabia Chaudry Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin's Press)
  • Flores A. Forbes Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Skyhorse Publishing)
  • Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf)
  • Holly Hughes Passings (Expedition Press)
  • Randa Jarrar Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books)
  • Bernice L. McFadden The Book of Harlan (Akashic Books)
  • Brian D. McInnes Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (Michigan State University Press)
  • Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Vaughn Rasberry Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press)
  • Marc Anthony Richardson Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two)
  • Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island (Knopf)
  • Ruth Sergel See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press)
  • Solmaz Sharif Look (Graywolf Press)
  • Adam Soldofsky Memory Foam (Disorder Press)
  • Alfredo Véa The Mexican Flyboy (University of Oklahoma Press)
  • Dean Wong Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown (Chin Music Press)
  • Nancy Mercado Lifetime Achievement
  • Ammiel Alcalay Editor/Publisher Award: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative

2018 [15]

2019 [16]

2020 to present

2020[17]

  • 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)
  • Lifetime Achievement: Eleanor W. Traylor
  • Editor Award: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editor
  • Publisher Award: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr, editors
  • Oral Literature Award: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
  • Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

2021[18]

  • 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)
  • Lifetime Achievement: Maryemma Graham
  • Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson, by Shana Redmond
  • Anti-Censorship Award: Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, by Jacob Soboroff

2022[19]

References

  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. 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. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards" Archived May 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  9. ^ "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
  10. ^ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. August 18, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  11. ^ "Alex Espinoza Wins American Book Award". huizachemag.org. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  12. ^ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. July 20, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  13. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Seventh Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 12, 2016.
  14. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 4, 2017.
  15. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Ninth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 13, 2018.
  16. ^ "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 19, 2019.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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.
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