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The American Book Awards
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
For more information see: The Before Columbus Foundation
2022 Winners
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
Esther G Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A Jacobs, Anthony K Webster | 2022
Altermundos Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, B V Olguín | 2018
Past Winners
Race and the Totalitarian Century
Vaughn Rasberry | 2017
Year of the Rat
Marc Anthony Richardson | 2017
From Unincorporated Territory
Craig Santos Perez | 2015
The Universal Tone
Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn, Hal Miller | 2015
Eye of Witness
Jerome Rothenberg, Heriberto Yepez | 2014
Kill Anything That Moves
Nick Turse | 2014
Day of Honey
Annia Ciezadlo | 2012
What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
Arlene Kim | 2012
Ardency
Kevin Young | 2012
Insides She Swallowed
Sasha Pimentel Chacón | 2011
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
Miriam Jiménez Román, Juan Flores | 2011
Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three
Jerome Rothenberg, Jeffrey C Robinson | 2010
Pacific Raven
Kathryn Waddell Takara | 2010
Crazy Love
Pamela Uschuk | 2010
