Awards & Winners

1989 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1989 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1989 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Frank Chin

Honored for : The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
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Isabel Allende

Honored for : Eva Luna
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J. California Cooper

Honored for : Homemade love
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Audre Lorde

Honored for : A Burst of Light: Essays
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Leslie Scalapino

Honored for : Way
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Jennifer Stone

Honored for : Stone's throw
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Alma Luz Villanueva

Honored for : The ultraviolet sky
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Honored for : The Signifying Monkey
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Charles Fanning

Honored for : The Exiles of Erin
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Shuntar? Tanikawa

Honored for : Floating the River in Melancholy
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Eduardo Galeano

Honored for : Genesis
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Josephine Gattuso Hendin

Honored for : The right thing to do
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Emory Elliott

Honored for : Columbia Literary History of the United States
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Askia M. Touré

Honored for : From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
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Carolyn Lei-Lanilau

Honored for : Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
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William Hohri

Honored for : Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress