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

Edition 80 (2015)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

6 people
Marlon James まーろん・じぇーむず Winner

An oral-history novel that reconstructs Jamaican political violence and memory from the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976.

704 pages
Jericho Brown じぇりこ・ぶらうん Winner

A poetry collection that reworks biblical language to examine Black masculinity, desire, violence, and faith.

73 pages
Marilyn Chin まりりん・ちん Winner

A lyric poetry collection that threads together love, loss, and diaspora with strong formal experimentation.

78 pages
Janice N. Harrington じゃにす・えぬ・はりんとん Winner

A poetry collection that uses yard-show objects to explore Black belonging, place, and memory.

100 pages
Richard Slator Dunn りちゃーど・えす・だん Winner

A comparative history of two plantations in Virginia and Jamaica that clarifies the structure of slavery and labor.

David Brion Davis でいゔぃっど・ぶらいおん・でいゔぃす Special Award