The 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday
in America, won the Lifetime Achievement award of the annual
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
The other winners are Andrew Solomon for Far From The Tree
(Non-Fiction), Eugene Gloria for My Favorite Warlord (Poetry), Kevin
Powers for The Yellow Birds (Fiction) and Laird Hunt for Kind One
(Fiction).
This was the 78th edition of the award organised by The Root and
sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation. Past winners include Derek
Walcott, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer and Wole Soyinka before they
won the Nobel Prize.
Every year since 1935, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards have been honouring
books and authors that “have made important contributions to our
understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of
human culture.”
Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the
book prizes in honour of her father, John Anisfield and husband, Eugene
Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for issues of social justice.
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