О премии

Премия Херстон / Райта «Наследие» — первая американская национальная награда, присуждаемая чернокожим писателям в Соединенных Штатах и ​​во всем мире.

Награда была учреждена в 2001 году и названа в честь двух самых влиятельных чернокожих авторов Зоры Нил Херстон (1891 - 1960) и Ричарда Райта (1908 - 1960).

Цель премии заключается в том, чтобы чтить творчество чернокожих писателей и открывать новые имена.

Присуждается за художественную, научно-популярную и поэтическую литературу, отобранную на конкурсе жюри. Награды за заслуги вручаются по усмотрению Совета директоров.

Церемония награждения лауреатов традиционно организуется и проводится Фондом Херстона/Райта (Hurston/Wright Foundation) в третью пятницу октября. На гала - вечер съезжаются сотни литературных звезд, читателей и представителей издательской индустрии, искусства, СМИ, политики и научных кругов.

Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Поэзия, Документальная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2002 г. Последнее вручение: 2023 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.hurstonwright.org/2021-legacy-award-honorees/

Номинации

Проза
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
Дебют
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction
Документальная литература: исторические/социальные/политические
Nonfiction: Historical/Social/Political

Премия присуждается с 2022 года.

Документальная литература: мемуары/биографии
Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography

Премия присуждается с 2022 года.

Поэзия
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry

Номинация учреждена в 2007 году.

Современная художественная литература
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Contemporary Fiction

Премия присуждалась дважды, в 2005 и 2006 годах.

Документальная литература
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction

Номинация существовала до 2021 года. В 2022 году она разделилась на две: Документальная литература: исторические/социальные/политические и Документальная литература: мемуары/биографии.

Беллетристика
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Speculative Fiction

Премия присуждается с 2023 года.

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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Джеймс Ханнахам 0.0
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Lambda Literary Award Finalist

In this “razor-sharp” and “dangerously hilarious” novel that “hooks readers from the beginning” ( Los Angeles Times ), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods .

Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she’d grown up with in Fort Greene, Brooklyn—before it gentrified. But not long after her conviction, she took the name Carlotta and began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary.

In her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed New York City. Over a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend, she struggles to reconcile with the son she left behind, to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.

Written with the same astonishing verve of Delicious Foods , which dazzled critics and readers alike, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn, much as Joyce’s Ulysses does through Dublin. The novel sings with brio and ambition, delivering a fantastically entertaining read and a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a prison system that continues to punish people long after their time has been served.
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A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
Мерон Хадера 0.0
Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Meron Hadero’s gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the risk of displacement.

Set across the U.S. and abroad, Meron Hadero’s stories feature immigrants, refugees, and those on the brink of dispossession, all struggling to begin again, all fighting to belong. Moving through diverse geographies and styles, this captivating collection follows characters on the journey toward home, which they dream of, create and redefine, lose and find and make their own. Beyond migration, these stories examine themes of race, gender, class, friendship and betrayal, the despair of loss and the enduring resilience of hope.

Winner of the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, “The Street Sweep” is about an enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa who pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his life around. Appearing in Best American Short Stories, “The Suitcase” follows a woman visiting her country of origin for the first time and finds that an ordinary object opens up an unexpected, complex bridge between worlds. Shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize, “The Wall” portrays the intergenerational friendship between two refugees living in Iowa who have connections to Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A Best American Short Stories notable, “Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin’ Newton” is a coming-of-age tale about an Ethiopian immigrant in Brooklyn encountering nuances of race in his new country.

Kaleidoscopic, powerful, and illuminative, the stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times expand our understanding of the essential and universal need for connection and the vital refuge of home—and announce a major new talent in Meron Hadero.
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Маргарет А. Бёрнем 0.0
If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?


In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today.


Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard.
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Документальная литература: мемуа...
Inciting Joy: Essays
Росс Гэй 0.0
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it.

In “We Kin” he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come on) as a laboratory of mutual aid; in “Share Your Bucket” he explores skateboarding’s reclamation of public space; he considers the costs of masculinity in “Grief Suite”; and in “Through My Tears I Saw,” he recognizes what was healed in caring for his father as he was dying.

In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love? Full of energy, curiosity, and compassion, Inciting Joy is essential reading from one of our most brilliant writers.
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Concentrate: Poems
Courtney Faye Taylor 0.0
In her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the murder of Latasha Harlins—a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, after being falsely accused of shoplifting a bottle of orange juice. Harlins’s murder and the following trial, which resulted in no prison time for Du, were inciting incidents of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States. Through a collage-like approach to collective history and storytelling, Taylor’s poems present a profound look into the insidious points at which violence originates against—and between—women of color.

Concentrate displays an astounding breadth of form and experimentation in found texts, micro-essays, and visual poems, merging worlds and bending time in order to interrogate inexorable encounters with American patriarchy and White supremacy manifested as sexual and racially charged violence. These poems demand absolute focus on Black womanhood’s relentless refusal to be unseen, even and especially when such luminosity exposes an exceptional vulnerability to harm and erasure. Taylor’s inventive, intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory, forging a path to a future rooted in solidarity and possibility. “Concentrate,” she writes. “We have decisions to make. Fire is that decision to make.”
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Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments
T. L. Huchu 0.0
T.L. Huchu returns with the gripping Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, the next in the Alex-Award-winning Edinburgh Nights series.

Some secrets are meant to stay buried

When Ropa Moyo discovered an occult underground library, she expected great things. She’s really into Edinburgh’s secret societies – but turns out they are less into her. So instead of getting paid to work magic, she’s had to accept a crummy unpaid internship. And her with bills to pay and a pet fox to feed.

Then her friend Priya offers her a job on the side. Priya works at Our Lady of Mysterious Maladies, a very specialized hospital, where a new illness is resisting magical and medical remedies alike. The first patient was a teenage boy, Max Wu, and his healers are baffled. If Ropa can solve the case, she might earn as she learns – and impress her mentor, Sir Callander.

Her sleuthing will lead her to a lost fortune, an avenging spirit and a secret buried deep in Scotland’s past. But how are they connected? Lives are at stake and Ropa is running out of time.
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