American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 10 (1989)
Winners
16 peopleA novel by Alma Luz Villanueva in which women’s relationships, desire, and family pressure overlap. Against a vivid sense of color and light, it follows the inner changes of its characters as a novel of transformation.
Women’s relationships and desire shift under a bright, intense sky of color.
A poetry collection that turns Black liberation and resistance into sharp, urgent verse.
Poems of genocide, memory, and resistance.
An early, distinctive poetry collection by a Chinese American poet.
It stretches the form of self-expression in bold ways.
A large-scale literary history and anthology surveying US literature.
It organizes American literature on a comprehensive scale.
An epic work that traces Latin American history from mythic origins to colonization.
A chain of history that begins with creation myths.
A short story collection set in the Chinese American community of Oakland.
It captures urban Chinese American experience.
A critical work that rereads Black literature through oral tradition.
A foundational work in African American literary theory.
A magical-realist novel about Eva Luna, a girl who grows into a gifted storyteller.
She moves through the world by the power of storytelling.
A short story collection about love, labor, and resilience among Black women.
It turns daily pain and affection into stories.
A Black feminist essay collection facing illness and politics head-on.
Cancer, activism, and personal politics intersect.
An essay collection that moves between daily life and politics.
Personal experience meets social critique.
A New York novel centered on the father-daughter bond in an Italian immigrant family.
It traces immigrant family tensions and responsibility.
An experimental long poem that keeps widening what experience can hold.
Fragments and repetition reassemble perception.
A bilingual Japanese-English poetry volume by Shuntaro Tanikawa.
Tanikawa's poems in parallel translation.
An anthology of nineteenth-century Irish-American fiction.
It gathers an early layer of immigrant literature.
A short story collection about love, labor, and resilience among Black women.
It turns daily pain and affection into stories.