The 43rd NAACP Image Awards
A Multi-Cultural Awards Show from an African American Point of View
The NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the
outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts
(television, recording, literature, motion picture and writing & directing),
as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through
their creative endeavors.
The awards were presented Friday, February 17th, 2012 at the The Shrine
Auditorium Los Angeles, CA
LITERATURE CATEGORIES
Fiction • Non-Fiction • Debut Author • Biography/Auto-Biography • Instructional • Poetry • Children • Youth/Teens
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
Boundaries by Elizabeth Nunez [Akashic Books]
Say Amen, Again by Reshonda Tate Billingsley [Gallery Books] - WINNER
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones [Algonquin Books]
A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson [Harlequin Kimani Press]
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel by Nelson George [Akashic Books]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction
The Cosmopolitan Canopy by Elijah Anderson [W.W. Norton & Company]
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place by Hill Harper [Gotham Books] WINNER
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now by Toure [Free Press]
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry [Yale University Press]
Super Rich by Russell Simmons [Gotham Books]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors & Supporters Navigate the Healing Process by Denise Hall Brown [2Lift 1Up Publishing]
A Defining Moment by Patricia Duncan [IJABA Publishing Inc.]
The Loom by Shella Gillus [Guideposts Books]
The Strawberry Letter by Shirley Strawberry & Lyah Le Flore [Ballantine/Random House] WINNER
We the Animals by Justin Torres [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Auto-Biography
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott [Riverhead Books]
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable [Penguin Group [USA]-Viking]
My Song by Harry Belafonte [Knopf] WINNER
No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by Condoleezza Rice [Crown Publishers]
The John Carlos Story by John Carlos, Dave Zirin [Haymarket Books]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional
A Year to Wellness and Other Weight Loss Secrets by Bertice Berry [Freeman House Publishing]
Living My Dream: An Artistic Approach to Marketing by Synthia Saint James [Create Space]
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community by Quraysh Ali Lansana [Teachers & Writers Collaborative]
The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God by T.D. Jakes [Atria Books] WINNER
Too Important to Fail: Saving America's Boys by Tavis Smiley [Author], Juan Roberts, [Illustrator] [SmileyBooks]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain by James Golden [iUniverse] WINNER
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney [TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press]
Honoring Genius: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice by Haki Madhubuti [Third World Press]
Intimate Thoughts by Darrin Henson [Author], Anna Saunders [Illustrator] [Godzchild Publishing]
Last Seen by Jacqueline Jones Lamon [University of Wisconsin Press]
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Children
Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band by Kwame Alexander [Author], Tim Bowers [Illustrator] [Sleeping Bear Press]
Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome [Author], James Ransome [Illustrator] [Schwartz & Wade Books / Random House Children's Books]
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson [Author/Illustrator] [Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books]
White Water by Michael S. Bandy [Author], Shadra Strickland [Illustrator] [Candlewick Press]
You Can Be A Friend by Tony & Lauren Dungy [Author], Ron Mazellan [Illustrator] [Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Little Simon] WINNER
Nominees - Outstanding Literary Work - Youth/Teens
Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon [Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Aladdin]
Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolan [Author], Sadra Strickland [Illustrator] [Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Paula Wiseman Books]
Jesse Owens: "I Always Loved Running" by Jeff Burlingame [Enslow Publishers, Inc.] WINNER
Kick by Walter Dean [HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books]
Planet Middle School by Nikki Grimes [Bloomsbury Children's Books]
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