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
Back Bay Books (Sep 18, 2009)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Incognegro: A Memoir Of Exile And Apartheid
by Frank B. Wilderson III
List Price: $18.00South End Press (Aug 01, 2008)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 500 pages
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Winner - Poetry
The Headless Saints (Inland Seas)
by Myronn Hardy
List Price: $14.00New Issues Poetry & Prose (Mar 01, 2008)
Poetry, Paperback, 85 pages
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