Thursday, December 02, 2010

2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winners

These Awards are made annually to authors of African descent for the year's best works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
The winners  are:

Fiction:

I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett
(Graywolf Press)

Poetry (two winners):

Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 by Haki R. Madhubuti (Third World Press)

Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove (Norton)

Nonfiction:

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley (Free Press)

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