Current Rendition
The 32nd annual American Book Awards were formally announced October 16, 2011, at University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House.
- Lifetime Achievement: John A. Williams
- Lifetime Achievement: Luis Valdez
- Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
- Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
- Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
- Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
- William W. Cook and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
- Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
- Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
- Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
- Geoffrey Alan Argent, translator and ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides
- Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
- Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
- Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
- Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
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