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NewsEasy Rawlins Returns In Walter Mosley’s Latest Thriller
Anisfield-Wolf winner Walter Mosley gave his readers a true cliff hanger in his last Easy Rawlins book, 2007’s Blonde Faith….
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NewsAdvocacy Organization Pushes For “Mother’s Day Our Way”
Reacting to the blah, monochromatic nature of typical of Mother’s Day cards, Strong Families, an Alturas, California policy group, launched…
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NewsNew Film Recovers The Story Of Classical Music’s Forgotten Black Virtuoso
At age 2, Joshua Coyne was removed from his Kansas City home with broken legs and hips. His foster mother…
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NewsVIDEO: Watch Andrew Solomon’s TEDMED Talk On Illness Versus Identity
Under the slogan “ideas worth spreading,” the annual TED conferences began in 1990, and have showcased a clutch of Anisfield-Wolf…
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NewsMeet Eugene Gloria, 2013 Winner For Poetry
Eugene Gloria’s 2012 poetry collection, My Favorite Warlord, won this year’s Anisfield-Wolf prize for poetry. Born in Manila, Phillippines, Gloria uses My Favorite Warlord’s 35…
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NewsMeet Kevin Powers, 2013 Winner For Fiction
The road home from war is a long journey to rediscover who you are. Author Kevin Powers, who signed up…
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NewsMeet Andrew Solomon, 2013 Winner For Nonfiction
Culled from more than 40,000 pages of interview transcripts, Andrew Solomon‘s Far From The Tree takes an exhaustive look at families…
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NewsMeet Laird Hunt, 2013 Winner For Fiction
Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and one short story collection. His latest book, Kind One, won the…
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NewsMeet Wole Soyinka, 2013 Lifetime Achievement Winner
We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we’re recognizing Wole…
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2013 Press Release: Winners Announced
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BookKind One
In understated prose, the story tells of two slave sisters who turn tables on their mistress and take her captive after her Kentucky farmer husband dies.
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AuthorWole Soyinka
In awarding him its literature prize in 1986, the Nobel Jury cited him as a writer ‘who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.’
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BookMy Favorite Warlord
A vivid, fast-paced book that looks at Filipino heritage, samurai, fathers, masculinity, and memory.
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BookThe Yellow Birds
Writer Kevin Powers, who joined the Army at age 17 and served as a machine gunner in Iraq, creates a tightly focused, hypnotic story that spirals around his central character’s isolation. Powers has created a piercing portrayal of war.
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BookFar From the Tree
This is a monumental book, the kind that appears once in a decade. It could not be a better example of the literature of diversity.
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NewsMeet Our 2013 Winners!
The jury has spoken and five new authors will join the Anisfield-Wolf family. Our 2013 winners are: Laird Hunt, Kind One,…
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NewsQuincy Jones Finally Inducted Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Quincy Jones turned 80 years old this year—a number he never thought he’d live to see. “I guess if you…
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NewsRita Dove Arrives “Home,” Explores The Depths Of Poetry At PlayhouseSquare Reading
Few modern poets range as widely through time and geography as Rita Dove, the former U.S. poet laureate. But when…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Fellow Profiled In The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lisa Nielson, Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Case Western Reserve University’s SAGES program, was profiled in the Plain Dealer’s “My Cleveland” column….
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NewsAuthor Angela Johnson Mesmerizes Crowd At Multicultural Literature Conference
Gary Schmidt, the lanky author of winning children’s novels such as “The Wednesday Wars” and “Okay for Now,’ stood up…