American Book Awards - Current Rendition

Current Rendition

The 32nd annual American Book Awards were formally announced October 16, 2011, at University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House.

Lifetime Achievement: John A. Williams

Lifetime Achievement: Luis Valdez

• Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
• Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
• Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
• Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
• William W. Cook and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
• Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
• Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
• Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
• Geoffrey Alan Argent, translator and ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides
• Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
• Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
• Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
• Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds