Awards & Winners

Elizabeth Nunez

Profession Writer, Novelist
Elizabeth Nunez is a Trinidadian American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received the New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review, Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award, and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion; Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and Anna In-Between was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a New York Times Editors' Choice and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal.

Awards by Elizabeth Nunez

Check all the awards nominated and won by Elizabeth Nunez.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Boundaries

2001


American Book Awards
Honored for : Bruised Hibiscus