America Award in Literature

America Award
Awarded for A lifetime contribution to international writing
Date annual
Country  United States
Presented by

Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.

(in loving memory of Anna Fahrni)
First awarded 1994
Official website www.greeninteger.com/america.cfm

The America Award is a lifetime achievement literary award for international writers. It describes itself as a modest attempt at providing alternatives to the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was first presented in 1994. The award does not entail any prize money.[1][2] It is sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc., in loving memory of Anna Fahrni, and by the publisher Green Integer.

Jury

Each year, the jury comprises 6 to 8 American poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics. The rotating panel has included Douglas Messerli [chairman], Will Alexander, Luigi Ballerini, Charles Bernstein, Peter Constantine, Peter Glassgold, Deborah Meadows, Martin Nakell, John O'Brien, Marjorie Perloff, Dennis Phillips, Joe Ross, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Vangelisti, and Mac Wellman.[3]

Winners

References

  1. Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.
  2. America Awards, Green Integer, 2006, retrieved 5 December 2013 Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  3. Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.
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