Awards & Winners

2008 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 2008 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 2008 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Honored for : How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
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Douglas A. Blackmon

Honored for : Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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C. S. Giscombe

Honored for : Prairie style
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Fae Myenne Ng

Honored for : Steer Toward Rock
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Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Honored for : Don't Deny My Name
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Honored for : All That Lies Between Us
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Tom Lutz

Honored for : Doing Nothing
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Nikki Giovanni

Honored for : The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
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Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká

Honored for : Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804
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Angela Jackson

Honored for : Where I Must Go: A Novel
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L. Luis Lopez

Honored for : Each Month I Sing
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Yuko Taniguchi

Honored for : The Ocean in the Closet
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Frank B. Wilderson III

Honored for : Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
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Jonathan Curiel

Honored for : Al\u2019 America: Travels Through America\u2019s Arab and Islamic Roots
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J.J. Phillips

Honored for : Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
(Lifetime Achievement Award)