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

Edition 85 (2020)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

4 people
Namwali Serpell なむわり・さーぺる Winner

An epic story told through the generations of three families, set against the backdrop of the formation of the city and country of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). It features a grand narrative structure in which colonialism, technological innovation, and fate intertwine.

An epic story told through the generations of three families, set against the backdrop of the formation of the city and country of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia).

592 pages
colonialismfamilyhistorytechnology
Ilya Kaminsky いりや・かみんすきー Winner

A collection of poems that poetically depicts the protests and oppression that occur in a fictional town. An allegorical work that questions communal ethics and political resistance through silence and the absence of hearing.

A collection of poems that poetically depicts the protests and oppression that occur in a fictional town.

poempoliticssilenceresistance
Charles King ちゃーるず・きんぐ Winner

An interdisciplinary history that depicts how the concepts of race, sex, and gender were reconstructed through the lives and thoughts of a group of anthropologists who were active in the 20th century. Re-examining the relationship between science and society.

An interdisciplinary history that depicts how the concepts of race, sex, and gender were reconstructed through the lives and thoughts of a group of anthropologists who were active in the 20th century.

anthropologyracesocial historyhistory of science
Eric Foner えりっく・ふぉなー Lifetime Achievement Award