American Book Award

Der American Book Award ist ein US-amerikanischer Buchpreis (auch für wissenschaftliche und Sachbücher usw.) unabhängig vom Genre. Er wird seit 1980 jährlich an mehrere Preisträger sowie für das Lebenswerk jeweils eines Preisträgers vergeben. Der Preis wird auf Anregung des afroamerikanischen Autors Ishmael Reed von der 1976 gegründeten Before Columbus Foundation gestiftet und versteht sich als Auszeichnung von Autoren für Autoren.

Die Website der Stiftung sagt zur Auszeichnung:

Der Name der Stiftung spielt auf die ethnischen Minderheiten an, denen in der Frühzeit der USA das Recht zu lesen verweigert wurde. In der Stiftung des Preises drückte sich auch die Kritik an der früher extrem geringen Repräsentation von Autoren der Minderheiten bei der Verleihung des Pulitzer-Preises und des National Book Awards aus. Entsprechend wird interkulturellen Aspekten eine hohe Bedeutung bei der Verleihung der *American Book Awards* beigemessen.

Zu den früheren Gewinnern gehören Schriftstellerinnen, Sozialwissenschaftler, Philosophen und Historiker wie Toni Morrison, Edward Said, MacKenzie Bezos, Isabel Allende, Bell Hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley, Joy Harjo und Tommy J. Curry.

Preisträger 2010er Jahre 2019

Preisträger/-in Titel Verlag Frank Abe, Greg Robinson und Floyd Cheung (Editoren) John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy University of Washington Press May-lee Chai Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories Blair Louise DeSalvo The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays Fordham University Press Heid E. Erdrich (Editor) New Poets of Native Nations Graywolf Press Ángel García Teeth Never Sleep: Poems University of Arkansas Press Tommy Orange There There: A Novel Knopf Halifu Osumare Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir University Press of Florida Christopher Patton Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book Gaspereau Press Mark Sarvas Memento Park: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Oxford University Press William T. Vollmann Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative Viking G. Willow Wilson (Autor), Nico Leon (Illustrator) Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland Marvel Nathan Hare Lifetime Achievement Award UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Editor/Publisher Award Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) Oral Literature Award Quelle:

2020er Jahre 2020

Preisträger/-in Titel Verlag 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 Quelle:

2021

Preisträger/-in Titel Verlag 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 Quelle:

2022

Preisträger/-in Titel Verlag 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 Quelle:

2023

Preisträger/-in Titel Verlag 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 & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism Quelle:

Weblinks The Before Columbus Foundation

Einzelnachweise

Kategorie:Literaturpreis (Vereinigte Staaten) Kategorie:Afroamerikanische Literatur Kategorie:Erstverleihung 1976