Troy Posted August 6, 2017 Report Share Posted August 6, 2017 BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION The Raymond House • 655 -13th Street • Suite 302 • Oakland, California 94612www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com August 4, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Justin Desmangles, 916-425-7916 The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Ceremonies, October 22, 2017, 12:00–2:30 p.m. Oakland, CA—The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS. The 2017 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 22nd, from 12:00-2:30 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center, Joe Henderson Lab, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell), San Francisco, CA. This event is open to the public. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. The 2017 American Book Award Winners are: Rabia Chaudry Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin's Press) Flores A. Forbes Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Skyhorse Publishing) Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf) Holly Hughes Passings (Expedition Press) Randa Jarrar Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books) Bernice L. McFadden The Book of Harlan (Akashic Books) Brian D. McInnes Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (Michigan State University Press) Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. Norton & Company) Vaughn Rasberry Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press) Marc Anthony Richardson Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two) Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island (Knopf) Ruth Sergel See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press) Solmaz Sharif Look (Graywolf Press) Adam Soldofsky Memory Foam (Disorder Press) Alfredo Véa The Mexican Flyboy (University of Oklahoma Press) Dean Wong Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown (Chin Music Press) Lifetime Achievement: Nancy Mercado Editor/Publisher Award: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Ammiel Alcalay, General Editor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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