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McBride, Trethewey among winners of Anisfeld-Wolf awards


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2021 Apr 05, 17:59, NEW YORK
Author James McBride poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 23, 2012, left, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey poses outside the president's office at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., on Sept. 18, 2012. McBride, Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this year’s winners of Anisfeld-Wolf awards for books that confront racism and help promote diversity. (AP P

Novelist James McBride, former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R. Delaney are among this year’s winners of Anisfeld-Wolf awards for books that confront racism and help promote diversity.

McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” won for fiction and Trethewey’s memoir “Memorial Drive” was a co-winner for nonfiction, along with Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt.” Delaney, known for such influential novels as “Babel-17” and “Dahlgren,” received a lifetime achievement prize. Victoria Chang’s “Obit” was honored for the best work of poetry.

The winners were announced Monday.

“The new Anisfield-Wolf winners bring us fresh insights on race and the human condition,” jury chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. said in a statement.

“This year, we honor a brilliant military history (‘Tacky’s Revolt’), a breakout poetry collection that wrestles with mortality (‘Obit’), a novel bursting with love and trouble centered around a Brooklyn church (‘Deacon King Kong’), and a memoir by a daughter reclaiming her mother’s story (‘Memorial Drive’). All of which is capped by the lifetime achievement of Samuel R. Delany, who has broadened our humanity and sharpened our minds through his groundbreaking science fiction.”

The Anisfeld-Wolf awards were founded in 1935 and are managed by the nonprofit Cleveland Foundation. Previous winners include the Rev. Martin Luther King, Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka.

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