| The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers." The Award is administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980, recognizing a list of eight 1979 publications. Almost every Award recognizes a particular work by an American author without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. In 2000 there were two Lifetime Achievement awards, one Editor award, and one Journalism award. There have been several subsequent awards for lifetime achievement and a few to editors. |
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Check all the Awards, Winners and Nominations for the American Book Awards since 1980. |
American Book Awards2010Check all the winners of 2010 American Book Awards.(Click on the Award Name or Winner name to get list of all awards/winners) |
Amiri BarakaHonored for : Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music |
Sherwin BitsuiHonored for : Flood Song |
Nancy C. CarnevaleHonored for : A New Language, A New World |
Dave EggersHonored for : Zeitoun |
Sesshu FosterHonored for : World Ball Notebook |
Stephen D. GutierrezHonored for : Live from Fresno y Los |
Victor LaValleHonored for : Big Machine |
François MandevilleHonored for : This is What They Say |
Bich Minh NguyenHonored for : Short Girls: A Novel |
Robin D.G. KelleyHonored for : Black,Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora |
Franklin RosemontHonored for : Black,Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora |
Jerome RothenbergHonored for : Poems for the Millennium |
Kathryn Waddell TakaraHonored for : Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems |
Pamela UschukHonored for : Crazy Love: New Poems |
Katha PollittHonored for : Antarctic Traveller |
Jeffrey Cane RobinsonHonored for : Poems for the Millennium |
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