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    Season 3, Episode 7: Novelist Anthony Marra

    July 20, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 6: Poet Shane McCrae

    July 6, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 5: Novelist Percival Everett

    June 22, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 4: Author George Makari

    June 8, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 3: Poet Donika Kelly

    May 25, 2023

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    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

    May 11, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 1: Historian Tiya Miles

    April 27, 2023

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    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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    2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 28, 2023, 6:00 pm

    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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    Alive at the End of the World

    Saeed Jones

    Readers flock to poet Saeed Jones for his mischief, his warmth, his gift with language and what the Kirkus Prize…

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    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

    Lan Samantha Chang

    “The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    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

    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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    Introducing Our Class of 2023

    April 3, 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

    March 7, 2023

    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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    An Evening with Adrian Matejka + 2023 Winners Announcement

    April 3, 2023, 7:00 pm

    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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    7 Titles From AW-Winning Authors You’ll Want On Your TBR List

    January 24, 2023

    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

    November 7, 2022

    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

    October 24, 2022

    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

    October 6, 2022

    Book lovers gathered in person for the first time since 2019 to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall, with a…