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Thumper
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Post Number: 206
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 06:24 pm: | 
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Hello All,
Here's the press release for this year's nominees for the Hurston/Wright awards.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 7, 2004
The Nations Highest Black Literary Award
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
2004 Nominees Announced
Contact: Clyde McElvene
The Hurston/Wright Foundation
301-683-2134
info@hurston-wright.org
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation and Borders Books & Music announce the nominees for the third annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors Black writers in the categories of Fiction, Debut Fiction, and Nonfiction. The winners in each category will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000 and two finalists will receive $5,000 each. Winners and finalists will be announced on Friday, October 1st 2004, in a ceremony at the University of Maryland, College Park, to be hosted by S. Epatha Merkerson star of NBC’s dramatic series Law & Order. Other featured guests include authors A’Lelia Bundles, Mat Johnson and Paule Marshall. During the ceremony scholar David Levering Lewis will receive the Foundation’s North Star Award, for his distinguished body of work.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2004 nominees are: (in alphabetical order by author)
Fiction:
Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud (Doubleday)
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke (Harper Collins/Amistad)
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Books)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Harper Collins/Amistad)
Hunting in Harlem by Mat Johnson (Bloomsbury)
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf)
Debut Fiction:
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
A Place Between Stations by Stephanie Allen (University of Missouri Press)
Daughter by Asha Bandele (Simon and Schuster/Scribner)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (Riverhead)
Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks (Random House)
Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reynolds (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co.)
Nonfiction:
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd (Simon and Schuster/Scribner)
Mandela, Mobutu and Me by Lynne Duke (Doubleday)
Always Wear Joy by Susan Fales-Hill (HarperCollins/Amistad)
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Wil Haygood (Alfred A. Knopf)
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson (Duke University Press)
Somebody’s Someone by Regina Louise (Warner Books)
The writers who served as judges for the 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award are: Fiction: Percival Everett, Ravi Howard and Nicole Bailey-Williams
Debut Fiction: Nichelle Tramble, Donna Hemans and David Haynes
Nonfiction: Sonsyrea Tate, Miriam DeCosta Willis and Dwight McBride
The Hurston/Wright Foundation, headquartered in Hyattsville, Maryland, also presents an annual summer workshop for Black writers, “Hurston/Wright Writers’ Week Workshop” and an annual award for Black college fiction writers, “The Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers.”
For more information about the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award ceremony and nominees and /or the Hurston/Wright Foundation programs, contact Clyde McElvene at The Hurston/Wright Foundation at 301-683-2134.
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Whistlingwoman
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Post Number: 31
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 06:45 pm: |
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Great list.
I loved Purple Hibiscus, Always Wear Joy, and Daughter. I'll look into the others.
Whistling Woman |
Cynique
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Post Number: 798
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 05:33 pm: |
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"Wrapped in Rainbows", Zora's biography, is certainly a worthy entrant. I was very impressed with this book. |
Emanuel
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Post Number: 50
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 07:59 pm: |
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I haven't read any of these yet, but I've heard great things. (Too busy reviewing more mid-list books.) Are there any books that you feel should have been nominated that weren't? "The Darkest Child" is my favorite of the year so far.
-Emanuel |
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