NEW YORK – Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the past due bell hooks had been among the authors honored this yr by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature.
Established in 1976, the Before Columbus Foundation each and every yr gifts American Book Awards to each fiction and nonfiction writers. Kingston, absolute best identified for her memoir “The Woman Warrior,” gained an entire life fulfillment prize. Pinckney was once cited for his memoir “Come Back in September,” and hooks, who died in 2021, was once given a distinct award for grievance.
On Tuesday, the root additionally introduced awards for Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s novel “When We Were Birds,” Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling: A Novel,” Everett Hoagland’s poetry assortment “The Ways” and Bojan Louis’ “Sinking Bell: Stories.” Other winners included Edgar Gomez’s memoir “High Risk Homosexual”; Aidan Levy’s biography of jazz great Sonny Rollins, “Saxophone Colossus”; Kelly Lytle Hernández’s nonfiction “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution within the Borderlands”; and Javier Zamora’s “Solito: A Memoir.”
Previous recipients of American Book Awards come with Gayl Jones, Ayah Akhtar and Ocean Vuong.