Past Jurors Include
Please Join Our Blog
If you would like to contribute to the Anisfield-Wolf Community Blog, please contact us at Hello@Anisfield-Wolf.org. Otherwise please feel free to comment on any of our posts. Thank you.
-
Recent Posts
- VIDEO: “Nollywood” Brings Adaptation of Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun”
- VIDEO: Rita Dove’s 2013 Emory University Commencement Address
- Rare Slave Cabin To Become Crown Jewel Of New African American History Museum
- “Geography Of Hate” Map Shows Where Most Hateful Tweeters Lurk
- New PBS Series Spans 500 Years Of African-American History
Archives
- 2013
- May 2013 (11)
- April 2013 (10)
- March 2013 (13)
- February 2013 (12)
- January 2013 (13)
- 2012
- December 2012 (13)
- November 2012 (13)
- October 2012 (15)
- September 2012 (12)
- August 2012 (14)
- July 2012 (13)
- June 2012 (13)
- May 2012 (12)
- April 2012 (12)
- March 2012 (13)
- February 2012 (13)
- January 2012 (2)
- 2011
- December 2011 (13)
- November 2011 (5)
- September 2011 (3)
- August 2011 (1)
- 2010
- September 2010 (1)
- June 2010 (1)
- April 2010 (1)
Tags
1954 1988 1993 1998 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Annette Gordon-Reed awards ceremony Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie David Livingstone Smith David W. Blight Edwidge Danticat Elizabeth Alexander Esi Edugyan Geoffrey C. Ward Henry Louis Gates Jr. Isabel Wilkerson Joyce Carol Oates Junot Diaz Kamila Shamsie Kwame Anthony Appiah Langston Hughes Louise Erdrich Mary Helen Stefaniak Mohsin Hamid Nicole Krauss on writing Rita Dove social media the jury Toni Morrison video Walter Mosley winners Wole Soyinka Zadie Smith Zora Neale HurstonContact Page Sidebar
General Information
For additional information on the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, please complete this form or email us directly at Hello@Anisfield-Wolf.org.
Book Submissions
For information related to submitting a book for consideration please visit Submission Guidelines or email us at Submit@Anisfield-Wolf.org.
Media Contact
Press inquiries should be directed to Elizabeth McIntyre at eMcIntyre@CleveFdn.org.
Subscribe to eNewsletter
Video – Current Year (Image set with CSS background)
Download Entry Form Button
Videos – News Page (Image set with tag)
Tag Archives: Nicole Krauss
On Writing: Nicole Krauss And The Magic Of Literature
It's always a question of whether the story will come when a writer sits down to begin a work and for Nicole Krauss, it's always a mystery. In an interview with Interview magazine, she talks about her strengths as a writer:
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover these symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But, yes, at first it's sometimes like it's like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.
When asked about her writing process for Great House, she admits that this is her favorite part of her job:
On different days I would work on different sections and sometimes I would get really absorbed into one voice and I would... Read More →
VIDEO: What Draws Nicole Krauss To The Keyboard
"I have to care so much about something if I'm going to sit and write about for a couple of years. There's enough books in the world already, there's no reason to make another one. Unless there's a feeling that's incredibly pressing. That's the reason why you write."
Nicole Krauss sits down in this brief interview with the Sundance Channel to discuss what commonalities exist between her characters and why she, and other writers, feels the pull to write. Read More →
Get To Know…Nicole Krauss
Each week, we’ll be helping you to get to know our winners better (what a great bunch they are) and highlighting the best of their work, interviews and essays. This week we'll be focusing on Nicole Krauss, 2011 winner for fiction.
Even some of the most celebrated writers of our time struggle with doubt from time to time. How do they know if their work will resonate with readers? Do they aim for writing an award-winning book each time they sit in front of the keyboard or do they just wish for an authentic voice or story to guide them to completion? Nicole Krauss, author of three novels and a National Book Award finalist, wrote an unflinchingly honest essay on her story writing process and whether she ever feels a story will be successful as soon as she starts:
I begin my novels... Read More →
6 Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
Because it is more appealing to hear from the authors themselves, we've rounded up some of the best quotes we've heard this year (even if they're a bit older) from some of our distinguished Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Enjoy!
"I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be."
— Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
— Toni Morrison
"Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth."
— Nam Le
"Poetry is what you find / in the dirt in the corner, / overhear on the bus, God / in the details, the only way / to get from here to there."
— Elizabeth Alexander, Ars... Read More →
VIDEO: 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner Nicole Krauss On Writing: “I Do Think Of A Novel As A House”
2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award winner Nicole Krauss, honored for her 2010 novel Great House, was selected as one of 12 honorees of USA Network's Character Approved award. Here she speaks in this short clip about her approach to writing and how she doesn't view it as simply putting words to paper, but rather, it's more like architecture. Read More →
Ronn Richard 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Remarks
Good evening. I’m Ronn Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation. It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to the 76th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony.
I can’t tell you how thrilling it is to see a full house for our opening night here in Playhouse Square. We will always think back upon our years at the Cleveland Play House with nostalgia. But the change in venue didn’t slow demand for almost 1,000 tickets, most of which were snapped up the first week. That’s a testament to the respect this prize commands – and to you. Never let it be said that any group anywhere can out-read Clevelanders!
I want to extend a special greeting to our internet audience. We’re streaming our ceremony live, thanks to a collaboration between Playhouse Square and Ideastream... Read More →
76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winners Announced
CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 12, 2011) – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of the 76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards www.Anisfield-Wolf.org
They are:
Nicole Krauss, Great House, Fiction
Mary Helen Stefaniak, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia, Fiction
David Eltis/David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Nonfiction
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Nonfiction
John Edgar Wideman, Lifetime Achievement
“The 2011 Anisfield-Wolf winners are notable for the unique way each author addresses the complex issues of race and cultural diversity,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, who serves as jury... Read More →
