'Booksellers know communities' - Hanif Abdurraqib
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Indie bookstores are at the heart of our communities, so we asked the #WindhamCampbellPrizes 2024 recipients to share what they mean to them, & what their favourites are.
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Hanif Abdurraqib talks to us about collecting first editions, meeting his hero, and the writer he is today vs should be.
What do you like to collect?
Hanif Abdurraqib is a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient.
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Here's Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad), a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for nonfiction, reading from his @NYTimes bestseller, 'There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension', a lyrical, historical, & emotionally rich exploration of his lifelong love of basketball.
Here's Deirdre Madden, a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for Fiction, reading from her compelling novel 'The Birds of the Innocent Wood' which was published in 1988 and won a Somerset Maugham Award.
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A writer of extraordinary depth, style, and range, Hanif Abdurraqib (@nifmuhammad) is a public intellectual in the truest sense of the term, combining discursive flexibility with a profound emotional and intellectual rigor.
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'This is a book very important to meโฆ 'Nursery Storiesโโฆ it was a book that led me into the world of writing, and maybe even more than that, into the whole world of the imagination' - Deirdre Madden, a 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient for Fiction.
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Secret's out! Look at these absolutely incredible writers who have just been announced as the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes Winners! This_is Bhanu @DrFeelAight @AHarris1361 Namwali ! #WindhamCampbellPrizes #LivefromLondon
Some good news! Yiyun Li, Princeton University professor of creative writing, received a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes Prize for fiction. The prizes enable writers to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. bit.ly/2xpINu4 #WindhamCampbellPrizes Princeton UniversityArts
Next up in #WindhamCampbellPrizes 2024 recipients spotlight is Columbus, Ohio native, Hanif Abdurraqib.
Hanif is recognised for his moving body of highly acclaimed literary criticism, including the Carnegie Medal winning 'A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance.'
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๐ Announcing the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes Recipients ๐
Eight outstanding writers have been awarded $175,000 each to fuel their creative journey #WindhamCampbellPrizes ๐
Congratulations to Anne Boyer for receiving a 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes Prize for Nonfiction! bit.ly/2J3uaPO.
Boyer's A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE is here: bit.ly/2QwEVOC.
Here's Boyer on the virus: bit.ly/3bb9pxK
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Congratulations to Anne Boyer whose book THE UNDYING was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize last night. Fantastic news! #WindhamCampbellPrizes
Huge Congratulations to Deirdre Madden!!!!! ๐ ๐ ๐
Deirdre is one of the 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipients!
Deirdre is the Co-Director of the M.Phil. in Creative Writing course in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre
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I was spellbound by poet Ishion Hutchinson talking about the poem London by William Blake & his detailed study of Blakeโs sonic qualities. A spectacular setting too for the event in YaleBritishArt Windham-Campbell Prizes #WindhamCampbellPrizes #Festival @Yale
Standing room only for Michael Kelleher & the Windham-Campbell Prizes event on Becoming A Reader at New Haven public library with #windhamcampbellprizes #yale
Booker shortlistee and UK playwright among winners of #WindhamCampbellPrizes . Recognising work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, the $175,000 awards aim to free writers to work without financial pressures Windham-Campbell Prizes theguardian.com/books/2023/aprโฆ ๐
Big congratulations to all of this year's #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipients - including Deirdre Madden and Sonya Kelly ๐
Congratulations to #NBAwards -honored authors Hanif Abdurraqib and Christina Sharpe, recipients of the 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes for Nonfiction. | Windham-Campbell Prizes