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The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."[1]

The Award is administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980, recognizing a list of eight 1979 publications.[citation needed] Almost every Award recognizes a particular work by an American author[citation needed][clarification needed] without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. In 2000 there were two Lifetime Achievement awards, one Editor award, and one Journalism award. There have been several subsequent awards for lifetime achievement and a few to editors.[2]

Current rendition

The 32nd annual American Book Awards were formally announced October 16, 2011, at University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House.[3]

Lifetime Achievement: John A. Williams
Lifetime Achievement: Luis Valdez
  • Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
  • Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
  • Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
  • Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
  • William W. Cook and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
  • Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
  • Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
  • Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
  • Geoffrey Alan Argent, translator and ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides
  • Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
  • Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
  • Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
  • Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds

Other ABA

For seven years 1980 to 1986, there were two distinct sets of American Book Awards. The other is now officially one stage of the National Book Awards (NBA) history.

The National Book Foundation is responsible for the National Book Awards (U.S.) from 1989 and officially recognizes a continuous NBA history from 1949/1950. Part of that history is those so-called American Book Awards that formally replaced the National Book Awards after their 1979/1980 cycle, were revamped for 1984, and were renamed "National" in 1987.[4]

The American Book Award is also unrelated to the American Booksellers Association (ABA), although that organization maintains a complete list of award winners that is readily available.[2] Since the 1970s that trade group is also unrelated to the National Book Awards, which it established in 1936 and jointly re-established them as book industry awards in 1950.

Recipients

1980 to 1989

Louis Sachar

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

1990 to 1999

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

Children' s Book Award: Chiori Santiago, author, and Judith Lowry, illustrator, Home to Medicine Mountain[2]

2000 to 2009

2000

Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick[2]

Journalism: Jack E. White[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Frank Chin[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Robert Creeley[2]

2001

Editor/Publisher Award: Malcolm Margolin[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Ted Joans[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Tillie Olsen[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Philip Whalen[2]

2002[5]

Children's Book: Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards

Lifetime Achievement: Lerone Bennett

Lifetime Achievement: Jack Hirschman

2003[5]
  • Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
  • Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
  • Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
  • Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
  • Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
  • Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories
  • Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
  • Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories
  • Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
  • Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women, a novel
  • Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
  • Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)

2004[5]
2005[5]

Journalism: Bill Berkowitz

2006[5]

Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.

Lifetime Achievement: Jay Wright

2007
2008[2]

Lifetime Achievement: J. J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

2009

Lifetime Achievement: Miguel Algarín

2010 to date

2010[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Katha Politt

Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Troupe

2011[3]

Lifetime Achievement: Luis Valdez

Lifetime Achievement: John A. Williams

References

  1. ^ "For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
    The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.
  3. ^ a b "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  4. ^ "History Of The National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e "... The American Book Awards" (Index to lists of winners through 2006). Retrieved July 7, 2012.
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