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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1120
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 10:44 pm: | 
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The First Annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
http://www.ernestjgainesaward.org/site/c.nmL2KlN0LtH/b.3266453/
Criteria for submission:
Any book-length work of fiction published in the U.S. during 2007; the writer must be African-American and a U.S. citizen. Submissions will be accepted from February 1, 2008 through April 30, 2008.
For additional information, please contact Jessica Foley at (225) 387-6126 or jfoley@braf.org
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Zane
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Username: Zane
Post Number: 81
Registered: 11-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 10:56 am: |
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I think this is wonderful. Gaines is one of my all-time favorite authors. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 03:06 pm: |
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Yeah Ernest Gaines is all that. A Lesson Before Dying* is one of my favorites. The winner of the first award, Olympia Vernon: http://authors.aalbc.com/olympia_vernon.htm, is not one to sleep on either.
Thumper raved about anything she put on papers (links to his reviews may be found on the above URL).
*Funny To this day I recall the word "Gallery" being used in Gaines' book. I gathered from the context of the novel that "gallery" mean the front porch (if memory serves). I was unfamiliar with the term and have not heard it since.
I just googled it and now see a definition for the word as veranda, or porch. There was no WWW when I first read the book and there are few porches in Manhattan (smile). I must not have been able to find the word in a dictionary...
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