In honor of Black History Month, and for the second consecutive year, NBF presents a timeline of the first African Americans to become National Book Award honored authors.
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“A slave revolt takes place, people die, diseases are rampant, cannibalism takes place, people go insane, and no one can be trusted. “
–NBF Director of Marketing Sherrie Young on reading National Book Award Winner Middle Passage.
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s classic novel has been reissued by Simon & Schuster.
Join us for Cave Canem at the National Book Awards on 9/14
Join the National Book Foundation, Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. and Weeksville Heritage Center as we celebrate 20 years of Cave Canem’s influence on the literary landscape. Year after year, Cave Canem fellows and faculty members have been winners and finalists for the National Book Awards, bringing fresh diction, form and imagery to our poetics. NBA winners and finalists Terrance Hayes, Yusef Komunyakaa and Marilyn Nelson read and discuss their work with Kyla Marshell, moderator. Suggested donation: $10.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2016 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT.
In honor of Charles Johnson’s birthday, here’s an article from People Weekly dated January 14, 1991. Johnson won the NBA for Fiction in 1990 for Middle Passage.
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson with (from left) Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ralph Ellison, and Ellison’s wife Fanny at the 1991 National Book Awards.
That night, Patterson made history when he became the first African American to win a National Book Award for Nonfiction for his groundbreaking history book, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture.
First edition of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man on display at Penguin Random House’s headquarters. Ellison was the first African American writer to win a National Book Award.
#TBT to 1953, the year Ralph Ellison became the first African American to win a National Book Award for the now classic novel Invisible Man. Upon accepting the award, Ellison said “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, but yet thrusting forth it’s images of hope, human fraternity, and individual self realization.” Read Ellison’s speech here.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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