Cleveland Foundation

Tracy K. Smith of Princeton, New Jersey, won the 84th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry for her collection Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press). Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, California, won the award in fiction for his novel, There There (Knopf). Andrew Delbanco of New York City won the award in nonfiction for his book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War (Penguin Press). Poet and playwright Sonia Sanchez of Philadelphia won the Lifetime Achievement Award. They each received $10,000.

Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, and Simon Schama judged. The annual awards are given to honor books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction published in the previous year that “confront racism and examine diversity.” The next deadline is December 31. Cleveland Foundation, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, 1422 Euclid Avenue, Suite 1300, Cleveland, OH 44115.

(216) 861-3810.

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