Saturday, February 22, 2020

Book Awards

American Book Award

  • GARY GIDDINS, a staff writer for The Village Voice, is the author of three books on music, Riding on a Blue NoteRhythm-a-ning, and Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker, which won an American Book Award and has been adapted by Giddins as a documentary film. [The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 316). Ticknor & Fields.]


National Book Award


Prix Femina Étranger


Lambda Literary Award 


Poets at Work Prize

Rabih Alameddine

RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of a story collection, The Perv, and the novels Koolaids; I, the Divine; The Hakawati; An Unnecessary Woman (a finalist for the National Book Award 2014), and The Angel of History. His novel The Wrong End of the Telescope is forthcoming in 2021.
- p. 273, The Best American Essays 2020.

RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of I, the Divine, The Hakawati, Koolaids, The Perv, An Unnecessary Woman, and The Angel of History. An Unnecessary Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014 and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina Étranger. His most recent novel, The Angel of History, won the Lambda Literary Award.
- p. 209, The Best American Essays 2019.