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

Edition 70 (2005)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

4 people
Edwidge Danticat えどうぃっじ だんてぃか Winner

A short-story collection by a Haitian American writer that portrays lives marked by violence and loss. Across the stories, it illuminates fracture and the possibility of survival.

A story collection confronting violence and loss.

256 pages
short storiesHaitiviolenceloss
A. Van Jordan えー ばん じょーだん Winner

A poetry collection centered on the memory of Macnolia and the histories attached to black womanhood. It uses poetry to recover voices often left out of official records.

A poetry collection about memory and naming.

134 pages
poetryblack womanhoodmemory
Geoffrey C. Ward じぇふりー しー わーど Winner

A biography of Jack Johnson that follows his rise and fall as a Black boxer. Beyond sports history, it examines the relationship between race and celebrity.

A biography of Jack Johnson's rise and fall.

512 pages
biographyboxingrace history
August Wilson おーがすと うぃるそん Lifetime Achievement Award