Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ honors the best in Black literature. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition. Each October, the award winners are celebrated during the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards that draws hundreds of literary stars, readers, representatives of the publishing industry, the arts, media, politics, and academia. Learn more at the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s website
4 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2008
Winner - Debut Fiction
She’s Gone
by Kwame Dawes
List Price: $16.95Akashic Books (Feb 01, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 350 pages
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Winner - Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2008)
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2007
Riverhead Books (Sep 02, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 339 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Brother, I’m Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2008)
- Honored by a 2008 Essence Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2007
Knopf (Sep 04, 2007)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Bouquet of Hungers: Poems
by Kyle Dargan
List Price: $19.95University of Georgia Press (Oct 25, 2007)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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