FYI:

Congratulations Hanif Abdurraqib !

La Grande Dame des Lettres mondiales, Maryse Condé, tire sa révérence, nous léguant une œuvre portée par la quête d’un humanisme fondé sur les ramifications de nos identités et les fêlures de l’Histoire. RIP.

ICYMI: Congratulations to Ned Blackhawk, our 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards nonfiction winner for THE REDISCOVERY OF AMERICA as honored by juror Steven Pinker (@sapinker): bit.ly/AWBA2024 #AWBA2024

ICYMI: Monica Youn’s FROM FROM takes home the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards award for poetry, as honored by jury chair Natasha Trethewey: bit.ly/AWBA2024 #AWBA2024

ICYMI: Maxine Hong Kingston wins the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement award, as honored by former AWBA manager Karen R. Long: bit.ly/AWBA2024 #AWBA2024

ICYMI: Teju Cole wins our 2024 fiction prize for TREMOR, as honored by juror Peter Ho Davies: bit.ly/AWBA2024 #AWBA2024

Meet Our Class of 2024

🟨Teju Cole, 'Tremor,' Fiction
🟨Ned Blackhawk, “The Rediscovery of America,' Nonfiction
🟨Maxine Hong Kingston, Lifetime Achievement
🟨Monica Youn, “From From,” Poetry

Full announcement + video: bit.ly/AWBA2024 #AWBA2024

Excellent ⁦The New Yorker⁩ profile of author Percival Everett, who will be in Cleveland on March 26 to announce the 2024 ⁦Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards⁩ winners. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

It's not too late to check out the MARCH BLOG! Grace, our Book Doyenne, discusses this multi-generational novel in verse!
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Happy Friday, Cleveland! Here's a beautiful sunrise over The Land to brighten the start of your day ☀️

Photo: Gabe Wasylko

Thanks to Cleveland Scene for spreading the news about our Cleveland Poetry Festival April 12-14!
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Today we honor the life + work of Toni Morrison (AW '88), one of the most influential American writers of all time.

In 2021, Morrison's birthday (2/18) was formally recognized as #ToniMorrisonDay in her home state of Ohio.

A few ways to observe the day:

Tonight! 6:00pm

We're delighted to welcome Nicholas Roman Lewis to the AWBA team as our new director.

Lewis joins us from Yale University, where he served as senior director for shared interest and identity groups for Yale UniversityAlumni.

Read more: anisfield-wolf.org/2024/02/new-di…

Such a joy to have Connie Schultz in the store this morning. Signed copies of Lola and the Troll now available!

The February GRACE NOTES is here! This month our Book Doyenne Grace looks at novels by Black authors that have been adapted for the screen, starting with Percival Everett's Erasure, the novel on which American Fiction is based. Check it out!
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We closed early today. Stay safe! #snow