Langston Hughes Medal
| Named after | Langston Hughes |
|---|---|
Director | Retha Powers |
Director | Charles Frye |
Chair of English | Elizabeth Mazzola |
Key people | Cheryl Sterling Jodi-Ann Francis Emily Raboteau Norval Soleyn Gordon E. Thompson David Unger Linda Villarosa Erec Koch |
The Langston Hughes Medal has been awarded annually since 1978 to recognize an influential and distinguished writer associated with the African diaspora for their "impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama-autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes".[1]
Recipients
Recipients of the Langston Hughes medallion[2] are:
- Chinua Achebe (1993)
- Maya Angelou (1991)
- James Baldwin (1978)
- Toni Cade Bambara (1981)
- Amiri Baraka (1989)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1979)
- Sterling A. Brown (1982)
- Dennis Brutus (1987)
- Octavia Butler (2005)[3]
- Alice Childress (1990)
- Lucille Clifton (2003)
- Jayne Cortez (2001)
- Edwidge Danticat (2011)[4]
- Ralph W. Ellison (1984)
- James A. Emanuel (2003)
- Ernest Gaines (1994)
- Nikki Giovanni (1996)
- John Oliver Killens (1980)
- George Lamming (1998)
- Paule Marshall (1981)
- Toni Morrison (1981)
- Walter Mosley (2014)[5]
- Albert Murray (1997)
- Arnold Rampersad (2003)
- Raymond R. Patterson (1986)
- Ishmael Reed (1995)
- Sonia Sanchez (1999)
- Ntozake Shange (2016)[6]
- Zadie Smith (2017)[7]
- Wole Soyinka (2000)
- Sekou Sundiata (2003)
- Derek Walcott (2002)
- Alice Walker (1988)
- Margaret Walker Alexander (1983)
- John Edgar Wideman (2004)
- Gregory H. Williams (2008)
- August Wilson (1992)
- Jacqueline Woodson (2015)[8]
References
- ^ "Langston Hughes Festival", The City College of New York.
- ^ "Medallion Recipients", Langston Hughes Festival, The City College of New York.
- ^ "Acclaimed Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Receives CCNY Langston Hughes Medal", CUNY, November 3, 2005.
- ^ Herb Boyd, "Edwidge Danticat received Langston Hughes Medal", Amsterdam News, November 28, 2011.
- ^ Austin Arrington, "Walter Mosley, Recipient of the 2014 Langston Hughes Medal", Harlem Times.
- ^ James Harney, "Famed poet, playwright, novelist Ntozake Shange wins 2016 Langston Hughes Medal", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 24, 2016.
- ^ "Zadie Smith Wins CCNY’s Langston Hughes Medal", CUNY, August 31, 2017.
- ^ Deon Brown, "Children’s Writer Wins Langston Hughes Medal", Jamaica Gleaner, December 4, 2015.