Awards & Winners

1984 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1984 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1984 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

American Book Awards

Paule Marshall

Honored for : Praisesong for the Widow
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Joseph Bruchac

Honored for : Breaking Silence
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Thomas McGrath

Honored for : Echoes inside the labyrinth
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Honored for : The Heat Bird
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Maurice Kenney

Honored for : The Mama Poems
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Gary Snyder

Honored for : Axe handles
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Amiri Baraka

Honored for : Anthology of African American Women
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William Kennedy

Honored for : O Albany!
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Ruthanne McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung

Honored for : Pie-Biter = Comepastels
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Jesús Colón

Honored for : A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
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Miné Okubo

Honored for : Citizen 13660
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Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal

Honored for : The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
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Venkatesh Kulkarni

Honored for : Naked in Deccan
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Cecil Brown

Honored for : Days without weather