The recipients of the 2014 American Book Awards have been announced. Find the official press release linked here – contents copied below:
2014 American Book Awards Press Release [PDF]
BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION
The Raymond House • 655 -13th Street • Suite 302 • Oakland, California 94612
The Before Columbus Foundation announces the
Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual
AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
Ceremonies, October 26, 2014, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Oakland, CA—The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS. The 2014 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday,October 26th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center, Joe Henderson Lab, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell), San Francisco, CA.This event is open to the public.
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.
The 2014 American Book Award Winners are:
Andrew Bacevich
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin
Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press
Juan Delgado (poetry) and Thomas McGovern (photography)
Vital Signs, Heyday Books
Alex Espinoza
The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House
Jonathan Scott Holloway
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press
Jamaica Kincaid
See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tanya Olson
Boyishly, YesYes Books
Sterling D. Plumpp
Home/Bass, Third World Press
Emily Raboteau
Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press
Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books
Nick Turse
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books
Margaret Wrinkle
Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press
Koon Woon
Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press
Anti-Censorship Award:
Armond White
Lifetime Achievement:
Michael Parenti