American Book Awards

American Book Awards
Date 1978–present
Country United States
Host Before Columbus Foundation
Official website beforecolumbusfoundation.com

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."[1]

The Award is administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980, recognizing a list of eight 1979 publications.[2][3] The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.[4] Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, poets, and historians such as Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Robin D.G. Kelley, Joy Harjo.

Current rendition

The 36th annual American Book Awards presented October 25, 2015 at the San Francisco Jazz Center. The winners are as follows:[5]

Other ABA

For seven years 1980 to 1986, there were two distinct sets of American Book Awards. The other is now officially one stage of the National Book Awards (NBA) history.

The National Book Foundation is responsible for the National Book Awards (U.S.) from 1989 and officially recognizes a continuous NBA history from 1949/1950. Part of that history is those so-called American Book Awards that formally replaced the National Book Awards after their 1979/1980 cycle, were revamped for 1984, and were renamed "National" in 1987.[6]

The American Book Award is also unrelated to the American Booksellers Association (ABA), although that organization maintains a complete list of award winners that is readily available.[7] Since the 1970s that trade group is also unrelated to the National Book Awards, which it established in 1936 and jointly re-established them as book industry awards in 1950.

Recipients

1980 to 1989

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

1990 to 1999

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

2000 to 2009

2000

Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick[7]

2001
2002[8]
2003[8]
2004[8]
2005[8]

Journalism: Bill Berkowitz

2006[8]
2007
2008[7]
2009

2010 to present

2010[7]
2011[9]
2012[7]
2013[10]
2014[11]
2015[12]

References

  1. ↑ "For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. Archived July 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 "Previous Winners of the American Book Award" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. 2002. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "About". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Press Release". July 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ "History Of The National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
    The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the American Book Awards" (Index to lists of winners through 2006). Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ankn.uaf.edu). Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  10. ↑ "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the ... {2013 winners}". Before Columbus Foundation. Press release September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. Archived December 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. August 18, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  12. ↑ "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. July 20, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
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