The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards program in the United States honors published Black writers worldwide for literary achievement. Introduced in 2001, the...
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Percival Everett (category Believer Book Award winners)
Oakland Awards & Winners". PEN Oakland. Archived from the original on March 1, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2020. "The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award". African...
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workshops, an annual conference, and offers the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the North Star Award, among others. Writer Marita Golden and cultural...
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Jamel Brinkley (category PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners)
National Book Award, The Story Prize, the John Leonard Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He currently teaches...
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Men We Reaped (section Awards)
nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. The book's title comes from a...
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The Trees (Everett novel) (section Awards and honors)
2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022. "Shara McCallum wins the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry". Peepal Tree Press. October 28, 2022. Archived from...
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to terms with his mother's life." Erasure won the inaugural Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2002. In 2024, it was listed on The Atlantic's The Great American...
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Evie Shockley (section Awards)
Evie Shockley is an American poet. Shockley received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her book the new black and the 2012 Holmes National...
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Literature Legacy Award, a prize awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a program that honors Black writers...
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Vievee Francis (section Awards)
Award the same year. Vievee is the author of three collections of the poetry, the third of which, Forest Primeval, won the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy...
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Colson Whitehead (category National Book Award winners)
Literary Award For Sag Harbor Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award For Zone One Finalist, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award...
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J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, which was established in 2007 by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, which is a...
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like. In 2005, Phillips was awarded the First Novelist Award for The Darkest Child. She was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist in 2005, and won the...
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Victor LaValle (category American Book Award winners)
novel was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.[citation needed] It became a favorite novel for...
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James Hannaham (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
which deals with human trafficking, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of Publishers Weekly's top ten books...
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891: 17 : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed...
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Sherrilyn Ifill (section Honors and awards)
Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, a 2008 finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction. In 2013, she...
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Roger Reeves (section Awards and honors)
the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved April 29, 2024. "The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award". African American Literature Book Club. Archived from the original...
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Much was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and nominated for a 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us was named...
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for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. Seeing the Body won the 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and was also...
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present narrative. In 2008, Measuring Time was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Measuring Time focuses on the tradition, modernity, and spirituality...
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Tayari Jones (section Honors and awards)
characters. Jones is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional...
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Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. She was born in San...
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other literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for writers of African descent, the Stonewall Award for Gay, Lesbian...
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Say You're One of Them (section Awards and honours)
Beyond Margins Award (now the PEN/Open Book Award), and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction). It was also nominated for other major awards and was a finalist...
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Kyle Dargan (section Awards)
His second collection, Bouquet of Hungers (2007), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry in 2008. "Logorrhea Dementia" was published in...
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in the early 20th century. The novel was shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. In 1968, Samuel Tyne, an unhappy Ghanaian civil servant residing...
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Brother, I'm Dying (category National Book Critics Circle Award-winning works)
National Book Critics Circle Award and was also nominated for the National Book Award. It won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for non-fiction Edwidge Danticat...
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Uwem Akpan (section Awards)
Writers Prize (Africa Region), the PEN Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was picked for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. A New York Times...
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Mark Whitaker (journalist) (section Awards)
was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for African-American authors. In 2014, Whitaker published a biography...
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