Before Columbus Foundation

Nine writers and translators received 2019 American Book Awards. They are poet Ángel García of Lincoln, Nebraska, for Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press); fiction writers May-lee Chai of San Francisco for Useful Phrases for Immigrants (Blair), Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, California, for There There (Knopf), and Mark Sarvas of Santa Monica, California, for Memento Park (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux); nonfiction writers Halifu Osumare of Sacramento, California, for Dancing in Blackness (University Press of Florida), Jeffrey C. Stewart of Santa Barbara, California for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press), William T. Vollmann of Sacramento, California, for Carbon Ideologies, Volume I: No Immediate Danger and Volume II: No Good Alternative (Viking), and the late Louise DeSalvo for The House of Early Sorrows (Fordham University Press); and translator Christopher Patton of Bellingham, Washington, for his translation from the Old English of Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen From the Exeter Book (Gaspereau Press). The annual awards are given for books published in the United States during the previous year to recognize “outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.” (SEE DEADLINES.) Before Columbus Foundation, American Book Awards, Raymond House, 655 13th Street, Suite 302, Oakland, CA 94612. (916) 425-7916. beforecolumbusfoundation@gmail.com

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