Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (German Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction ) were founded in 2010. The award is given to the best novels and non-fiction books for adult readers. The books are said to have been published in the United States.
The award is named after the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie . This honors his deep love for books. The award is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and organized by the American Library Association (ALA). Booklist and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) are also involved. A committee of seven draws up the list. These are literary experts. The prizes will be presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June. The winners will receive a prize of $ 5,000. The second will receive a prize of $ 1,500. The article lists the winners and the second and third placed.
Finalists and winners
2012
fiction
- Winner : Anne Enright , The Forgotten Waltz (German: anatomy of an affair)
- Russell Banks , Lost Memory of Skin (dt .: Disowned)
- Karen Russell , Swamplandia! (German: Swamplandia)
Non-fiction
- Winner : Robert Massie , Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
- James Gleick , The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (German: The information. History, Theory, Flood)
- Manning Marable , Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
2013
fiction
- Winner : Richard Ford , Canada (German: Canada )
- Junot Díaz , This Is How You Lose Her (Eng .: And so you lose her)
- Louise Erdrich , The Round House (German: The House of the Wind)
Non-fiction
- Winner : Timothy Egan , Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
- Jill Lepore , The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
- David Quammen , Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
2014
fiction
- Winner : Donna Tartt , The Goldfinch (dt .: The Goldfinch )
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Americanah
- Edwidge Danticat , Claire of the Sea Light
Non-fiction
- Winner : Doris Kearns Goodwin , The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- Nicholas A. Basbanes , On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
- Sheri Fink , Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2015
fiction
- Winner : Anthony Doerr , All the Light We Cannot See (German: All the light we don't see )
- Chang-Rae Lee , On Such a Full Sea
- Colm Tóibín , Nora Webster (Ger .: Nora Webster, Scribner)
Non-fiction
- Winner : Bryan Stevenson , Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (German: Without Mercy. Police violence and arbitrariness of justice in the USA)
- Elizabeth Kolbert , The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (German: The sixth dying. How man writes natural history)
- Lawrence Wright , Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David
2016
Fiction
- Winner : The Sympathizer of Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Nonfiction
- Winner : Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
2017
Fiction
- Winner : The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction
- Winner : Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2018
Fiction
- Winner : Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Nonfiction
- Not awarded after intended recipient Sherman Alexie waived the award (for You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir )
2019
Fiction
- Winner : The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Nonfiction
- Winner : Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Web links
- Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction , Official Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction (Official Website) . Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ^ Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association Announce New Literary Prizes . carnegie.org. March 5, 2012. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ A b Neal Wyatt: Wyatt's World: The Carnegie Medals Short List . In: Library Journal . May 21, 2012. Archived from the original on May 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ A b Carolyn Kellogg: First-ever Carnegie Awards in Literature go to Enright, Massie . In: Los Angeles Times . June 25, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b Bill Ott: Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. . In: Booklist . June 30, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ↑ a b Annalisa Pesek: 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction . In: Library Journal . July 3, 2013. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
- ↑ a b ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals . In: Publishers Weekly . April 22, 2013.
- ^ A b Hillel Italie: Tartt, Goodwin awarded Carnegie medals . In: Seattle Times . June 30, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ^ A b Anthony Doerr wins Carnegie Medal for fiction . In: Midcontinent Communications . June 28, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
- ↑ Alexie Declines Literary Award; Paperback Release Postponed , publishersweekly.com, March 11, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018
