Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ honors the best in Black literature. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition. Each October, the award winners are celebrated during the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards that draws hundreds of literary stars, readers, representatives of the publishing industry, the arts, media, politics, and academia. Learn more at the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s website
5 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2018
Winner - Debut Fiction
The Talented Ribkins
by Ladee Hubbard
List Price: $16.99Melville House (Aug 08, 2018)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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Winner - Fiction
Black Moses: A Novel
by Alain Mabanckou
List Price: $23.95The New Press (Jun 06, 2017)
Fiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
by Tiya Miles
List Price: $27.95The New Press (Oct 03, 2017)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Semiautomatic
by Evie Shockley
List Price: $15.95Wesleyan University Press (Jun 05, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 104 pages
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Finalist - Nonfiction
Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
by Noliwe Rooks
List Price: $18.99The New Press (Mar 03, 2020)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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