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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 7: Novelist Anthony Marra
Born in Washington, D.C., Anthony Marra won the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in fiction for “A Constellation of Vital…
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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 6: Poet Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae won a 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry for “In the Language of My Captor.” A book about freedom…
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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 5: Novelist Percival Everett
Percival Everett won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction for “The Trees.” The idea for the novel sprung from…
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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 4: Author George Makari
George Makari won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in nonfiction for his third book, “Of Fear and Strangers: A…
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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 3: Poet Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in poetry for “The Renunciations” – a response to the ending…
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Season 3, Episode 2: Novelist Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for fiction, becomes the first guest to sit down for a…
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Podcasts
Season 3, Episode 1: Historian Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in nonfiction for “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s…
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Events
2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address…
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Book
Alive at the End of the World
Readers flock to poet Saeed Jones for his mischief, his warmth, his gift with language and what the Kirkus Prize…
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Author
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Seventy years ago, as a young child in Covington, Georgia, Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat at her grandmother’s knee each evening, waiting…
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The Family Chao
“The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center…
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Book
Half American
More than a decade before the U.S military desegregated in 1948, American volunteers fought in racially integrated units – called…
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Horse
Geraldine Brooks, award-winning war correspondent and Pulitzer-winning novelist, upended her life 16 years ago when she took a trail ride…
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News
Introducing Our Class of 2023
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only…
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Poet Adrian Matejka to Announce 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners
Join us Monday, April 3 as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won…
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Events
An Evening with Adrian Matejka + 2023 Winners Announcement
Join us as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won an Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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News
7 Titles From AW-Winning Authors You’ll Want On Your TBR List
Looking for some new titles to pick up? Check out some recent releases from Anisfield-Wolf award winners – you already…
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Watch the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
For the third year, our literary celebrations continue with a one-hour awards documentary featuring our 2022 winners: Percival Everett (fiction), Donika Kelly (poetry), George Makari (nonfiction), Tiya…
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Cleveland Book Week
Putting Cleveland’s Literary Scene on the Map Since 2016, Cleveland Book Week has celebrated literary excellence in Northeast Ohio, anchored…
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7th Annual Cleveland Book Week, Cover to Cover
Book lovers gathered in person for the first time since 2019 to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall, with a…