NEW YORK — Novelist James McBride, former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this year's winners of Anisfield-Wolf awards for books that confront racism and help promote diversity.
McBride's “Deacon King Kong” won for fiction and Trethewey's memoir “Memorial Drive” was a co-winner for nonfiction, along with Vincent Brown's “Tacky's Revolt.” Delaney, known for such influential novels as “Babel-17” and “Dahlgren,” received a lifetime achievement prize. Victoria Chang's “Obit” was
The winners were announced Monday.
"The new Anisfield-Wolf winners bring us fresh insights on race and the human condition,” jury chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. said in a statement.
“This year, we
The Anisfield-Wolf awards were founded in 1935 and are managed by the
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