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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture.[1] Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf and originally administered by the Saturday Review, the awards have been administered by the Cleveland Foundation since 1963.
Several awards in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and lifetime achievement are given out each September in a ceremony free and open to the public and attended by the honorees. Winners include Zora Neale Hurston (1943), Langston Hughes (1954), Martin Luther King Jr. (1959), Maxine Hong Kingston (1978), Wole Soyinka (1983), Nadine Gordimer (1988), Toni Morrison (1988), Ralph Ellison (1992), Edward Said (2000), and Derek Walcott (2004).
The jury has been composed of prominent American writers and scholars at least since 1991, when long-time jury chairman Ashley Montagu, a renowned anthropologist, asked poet Rita Dove and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. to help him judge the large number of books submitted annually by publishers across the disciplines. When Montagu retired in 1996, Gates assumed the chair position. Like Gates, Rita Dove has remained a juror to this day; in 1996, she was joined by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, writer Joyce Carol Oates and historian Simon Schama. After Gould's death in 2002, psychologist Steven Pinker replaced him on the jury.
Winners
Fiction
Poetry
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Jericho Brown | The New Testament | [5] |
| Marilyn Chin | Hard Love Province | ||
| 2016 | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Heaven | [6] |
| 2017 | Tyehimba Jess | Olio | [7] |
| 2018 | Shane McCrae | In the Language of My Captor | [8] |
| 2019 | Tracy K. Smith | Wade in the Water | [9] |
| 2020 | Ilya Kaminsky | Deaf Republic | [10][11] |
| 2021 | Victoria Chang | Obit | [12] |
| 2022 | Donika Kelly | The Renunciations | [14] |
| 2023 | Saeed Jones | Alive at the End of the World[17] |
Nonfiction
| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Harold Foote Gosnell | Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago | |
| 1937 | Julian Huxley and A. C. Haddon | We Europeans: A Survey of "Racial" Problems | |
| 1939 | Ralph J. Bunche | An Analysis of the Political, Economic and Social Status of the Non-European Peoples in South Africa | |
| Charles S. Johnson | The Negro College Graduate | ||
| 1940 | Edward Franklin Frazier | The Negro Family in the United States | |
| 1941 | Louis Adamic | From Many Lands | |
| 1942 | James G. Leyburn | The Haitian People | |
| Leopold Infeld | Quest: An Autobiography | ||
| 1943 | Zora Neale Hurston | Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography | |
| 1944 | Roi Ottley | New World A-Coming | |
| Maurice Samuel | The World of Sholom Aleichem | ||
| 1945 | Gunnar Myrdal | An American Dilemma | |
| 1946 | St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton | Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City | |
| Wallace Stegner and the editors of Look | One Nation | ||
| 1947 | Pauline R. Kibbe | Latin Americans in Texas | |
| 1948 | John Collier | The Indians of the Americas | |
| 1949 | J.C. Furnas | Anatomy of Paradise | |
| 1950 | S. Andhil Fineberg | Punishment Without Crime | |
| Shirley Graham | Your Most Humble Servant | ||
| 1951 | Henry Gibbs | Twilight in South Africa | |
| 1952 | Laurens Van Der Post | Venture to the Interior | |
| Brewton Berry | Race Relations | ||
| 1953 | Farley Mowat | People of the Deer | |
| Han Suyin | A Many-Splendoured Thing | ||
| 1954 | Vernon Bartlett | Struggle for Africa | |
| 1955 | Oden Meeker | Report on Africa | |
| Lyle Saunders | Cultural Differences and Medical Care | ||
| 1956 | John P. Dean and Alex Rosen | A Manual of Intergroup Relations | |
| George W. Shepherd | They Wait in Darkness | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Awards