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
3 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2009
Winner - Fiction
Say You’re One Of Them
by Uwem Akpan
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2009)
- A 2009 Oprah Book Club Selection
Publication Date: Sep 18, 2009
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316086370
Imprint: Back Bay Books
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Parent Company: Back Bay Books
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Winner - Nonfiction
Incognegro: A Memoir Of Exile And Apartheid
by Frank B. Wilderson III
Publication Date: Aug 01, 2008
List Price: $18.00
Format: Paperback, 500 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780896087835
Imprint: South End Press
Publisher: South End Press
Parent Company: South End Press
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Winner - Poetry
The Headless Saints (Inland Seas)
by Myronn Hardy
Publication Date: Mar 01, 2008
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 85 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781930974760
Imprint: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Parent Company: Western Michigan University