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

Edition 69 (2004)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

4 people
Edward P. Jones えどわーど ぴー じょーんず Winner

A historical novel set in antebellum Virginia that follows black slaveholders and the moral distortions of slavery. Power, violence, and family are layered in a quiet, unsettling register.

A historical novel about the contradictions of slavery.

400 pages
historical fictionslaverythe American South
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc えいどりあん にこーる るぶらん Winner

A work of nonfiction that follows a Bronx family through poverty, drugs, and coming of age. It turns individual lives into a larger portrait of structural urban inequality.

A Bronx family story that becomes a portrait of urban life.

432 pages
nonfictionthe Bronxfamily history
Ira Berlin あいら ばーりん Winner

A long-view history of African American slavery that treats it as both an institution and a lived social world. It reads slavery through family, labor, and power over time.

A sweeping reinterpretation of slavery history.

384 pages
historyslaveryAfrican American history
Derek Alton Walcott でれく うぉるこっと Lifetime Achievement Award