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

Edition 84 (2019)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

4 people
Tommy Orange とみー・おれんじ Winner

A multivoiced novel about an Indigenous community in Oakland, capturing the intersections of family, addiction, and historical pain. Individual stories expand into the reality of Native life in the city.

A novel that brings the reality of urban Native life into view through intersecting lives.

304 pages
novelIndigenous literatureurban lifefamilyaddictionensemble cast
Tracy K. Smith とれーしー・けー・すみす Winner

A poetry collection that links the present in the United States with the history of slavery by layering fragments of verse, documentary material, and personal voice. It places contemporary unease within a long continuum of language and history.

Poetry stitches history and the present together.

83 pages
poetryhistoryslaveryUnited Statesarchivescivil rights
Andrew H. Delbanco あんどりゅー・でるばんこ Winner

A history book tracing the relationship between fugitive slaves and legal structures from the early republic to the Civil War. It shows how slavery was built into the formation of the nation, linking political history with human movement.

Rereading the nation's contradictions through the history of fugitive slaves.

464 pages
historyslaveryAmerican historylegal systemCivil Warpolitical history
Sonia Sanchez そにあ・さんちぇす Lifetime Achievement Award