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Anisfield-Wolf Book Prizes for Elizabeth Alexander and Kamila Shamsie
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In case anyone missed Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem or wants to reread it, I posted it down in our poetry folder below.
Literary Fiction by People of Color
Books mentioned in this topic
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009 (other topics)Burnt Shadows (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
William Julius Wilson (other topics)Elizabeth Alexander (other topics)
Kamila Shamsie (other topics)
The 2010 winners are are:
* Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows: A Novel, for Fiction
* Elizabeth Alexander, Lifetime Achievement in Poetry
*William Julius Wilson, sociologist, Lifetime Achievement in Nonfiction
* Oprah Winfrey, Lifetime Achievement
Elizabeth Alexander is probably best known for the poem she read at Barack Obama's inauguration,
Praise Song For The Day: A Poem For Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2009.
Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist and Burnt Shadows, her fifth novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction for 2009.
More info about the prize and the winners can be found at this link:
http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/PressRo...