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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 61 (1996)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

3 people

A report that confronts poverty and racial isolation through the lives of children in the South Bronx.

The children's voices reflect the city back to itself.

304 pages
reportageeducationpovertyrace

A historical novel set against the Haitian Revolution, depicting the violence and hope of slavery and liberation.

Revolution brings the promise of freedom and the reality of violence at the same time.

530 pages
historical fictionHaitian Revolutionslaveryliberation
Dorothy West Lifetime Achievement Award