Celebrate Cleveland Book Week this year with free online streaming events highlighting nationally recognized literary talent.
Upcoming Cleveland Book Week Events
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CIFF STREAMS + AWBA Film Selections
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Case Western Reserve University: 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Winner David Livingstone Smith
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In Conversation: Charles King + Steven Pinker
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Sudanese-American Poet Safia Elhillo and Twelve Literary Arts on “The Weight and Opportunity of Living in the Hyphen”
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Global Cleveland Sister Cities Conference: Namwali Serpell
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The 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony Televised Special
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Global Cleveland Sister Cities Conference: Ilya Kaminsky
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The City Club of Cleveland Forum: Eric Foner
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Great Lakes African American Writers Conference: Pearl Cleage Keynote
Our Mission
The only juried American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity.
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. For 85 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged our minds. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for social justice.
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Discover their stories.
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1984 Nonfiction
Pre-Columbian Art
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2017 Fiction
The Fortunes
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2004 Lifetime Achievement
Derek Walcott
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2015 Fiction
A Brief History of Seven Killings
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2014 Nonfiction
My Promised Land
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1945 Fiction
Earth and High Heaven
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1939 Nonfiction
Non-European Peoples of South Africa
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1943 Nonfiction
Dust Tracks on a Road
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1954 Fiction
Simple Takes a Wife
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2009 Nonfiction
The Hemingses of Monticello
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2013 Nonfiction
Far From the Tree
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1994 Nonfiction
A Different Mirror
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2013 Fiction
My Favorite Warlord
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1983 Nonfiction
Ake
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1959 Nonfiction
Stride Toward Freedom
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1990 Nonfiction
The Image of the Black in Western Art From the American Revolution to World War I
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1999 Fiction
Cloudsplitter
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1968 Nonfiction
Warrant for Genocide
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1962 Nonfiction
Antislavery
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1987 Nonfiction
Spirit of Survival
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2017 Poetry
Olio
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1965 Nonfiction
A History of the Jews
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2019 Nonfiction
The War Before the War
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1974 Nonfiction
Justice in South Africa
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1983 Nonfiction
Ake
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2009 Fiction
The Boat
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1972 Nonfiction
The Black Image in the White Mind
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1995 Fiction
Sweetbitter
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1959 Nonfiction
Stride Toward Freedom
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1985 Fiction
Mouroir
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2017 Nonfiction
Hidden Figures
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1993 Nonfiction
In My Father’s House
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1962 Fiction
The Forbidden Man
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1984 Nonfiction
From Immigrants to Ethnics
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1945 Nonfiction
An American Dilemma
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1954 Nonfiction
Struggle for Africa
Recent News
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Virtual Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off September 29
August 26, 2020
The fifth annual literary celebration returns this year from Sept. 29-Oct. 4, and will celebrate our 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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John Lewis Hopes To Encourage “Good Trouble” In New Documentary
July 16, 2020
One of the most surprising things about “Good Trouble,” a new documentary on Georgia Congressman John Lewis’ six decades in…
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New Televised Special Will Celebrate Our 2020 Award Recipients Oct 1
June 26, 2020
Join us October 1 to toast the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards authors and their brilliant books. WVIZ/PBS ideastream will produce,…
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Anisfield-Wolf Winning Authors Nab Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
April 30, 2020
Four Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning authors — including two from our 2020 class — took home hardware from this year’s Los Angeles…
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“We Are Radical Monarchs” Documentary Shows Young Girls Taking Flight In The Social Justice Realm
April 24, 2020
“I was meant to be here,” 11-year-old Amia said as she twirled around the state capitol building in Sacramento, California….
Educational Resources
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Discovering “Reading-in-Place” — the Act of Joining Stories and Geography
Level: Young Adult
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Exploring Magical Thinking Within “Olio” and “The Second Founding”
Book: Olio
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Taking A Deep Dive Into “Sing Unburied Sing”
Book: Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Discussing The Complexities Of Citizenship Within “Half Of A Yellow Sun”
Book: Half of a Yellow Sun
Level: Young Adult
Support the Cleveland community by purchasing your Anisfield-Wolf books at these local sellers
Appletree Books, an independent bookstore established in Cleveland Heights, offers an eclectic, well-curated selection of new book titles in multiple genres for both children and adults.
Loganberry Books is an independently owned and operated bookstore in the historic Larchmere neighborhood, featuring a carefully curated collection of new, used and rare books.
Mac’s Backs is an independent bookstore located in the Coventry neighborhood, and home to three floors of new and used classics, mysteries, science fiction, contemporary fiction and non-fiction books and magazines.
Visible Voice is a bookstore with that lost independent feel in the Tremont neighborhood—a relaxed, inviting environment conducive to discovery, where the books marginalized by commercial concerns have a home.
Join the conversation on Twitter
@AnisfieldWolfStreaming 9/29 in our FREE #ClevelandBookWeek film series w/ @CIFF: “Dope is Death,” a doc on how the Young Lords and Black Panther Party created the first acupuncture detox program in America. Register for your streaming link: https://t.co/FMSr8K7QD4 https://t.co/YJnuERRjL3
Immediately following each of the four documentaries of our #ClevelandBookWeek film series is a 45-minute interview with the director and film subjects, conducted by CSU professor Eric Siler. Dive deeper into these films + the lives behind the stories: https://t.co/5uYAEioHXj
Streaming 9/30 as part of our FREE #ClevelandBookWeek series w/ @CIFF: “Good Luck Soup,” @MatthewHash‘s story of his Japanese-American family before, during and after WWII. Register for your streaming code: https://t.co/5J09VgRjvi and watch the trailer:
https://t.co/vVAwGpZxJs
Join us 9/29-10/4 as we partner with @AnisfieldWolf to present four feature films + two short programs as part of #CBW2020! All feature films will include a post-film Q&A, with DOPE IS DEATH up first. Events are free, but registration is required: https://t.co/Vv6NrqzOS7 https://t.co/pb8dphnovu
Calling all film lovers! We’ve partnered w/ @CIFF to bring you 18 documentaries and short films during #ClevelandBookWeek 2020. View the available offerings here + register for your streaming links: https://t.co/SEhPjH7Sbn
