Awards & Winners

1983 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1983 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1983 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

American Book Awards

Joy Kogawa

Honored for : Obasan
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Nash Candelaria

Honored for : Not by the sword
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Peter Guralnick

Honored for : Lost highway
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Seán Ó Tuama

Honored for : An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred
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Jessica Hagedorn

Honored for : Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions
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John A. Williams

Honored for : Click Song: A Novel
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James D. Houston

Honored for : Californians: Searching for the Golden State
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Barbara Christian

Honored for : Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976
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Judy Grahn

Honored for : The Queen of Wands: Poetry
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Cecilia Liang

Honored for : Chinese Folk Poetry
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Evangelina Vigil

Honored for : Thirty: An Seen a Lot
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Harriet Rohmer

Honored for : Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento