Awards & Winners

Nikki Giovanni

Date of Birth 07-June-1943
Place of Birth Knoxville
(Knox County, Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains, United States of America, Area code 865)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Nikki Giovani, Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr.
Profession Writer, Poet, Author, Teacher, Professor, Activist
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She is currently a distinguished professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Awards by Nikki Giovanni

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nikki Giovanni.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid

2011


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Honored for : 100 Best African-American Poems
(Sourcebooks MediaFusion)

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry 100 Best African-American Poems
Sourcebooks MediaFusion

2010


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Honored for : Bicycles
(William Morrow)

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Bicycles
William Morrow

2009


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Honored for : Acolytes: Poems
(Harper Collins/William Morrow)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Acolytes: Poems
Harper Collins/William Morrow

2008


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Honored for : Acolytes: Poems
American Book Awards
Honored for : The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Acolytes: Poems

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni

2003


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : Quilting the black-eyed pea

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Quilting the black-eyed pea

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Biography Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement My First Twenty-Five Years of Being Black Poet