Geen genomineerden, geen verliezers dus, alleen maar winnaars. Van fictie tot non-fictie, van poëzie tot proza; de winnaars van de American Book Awards 2015 zijn bekend gemaakt:

Hisham Aidi – Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Vintage)

Arlene Biala – her beckoning hands (Word Poetry)

Arthur Dong – Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 (DeepFocus Productions)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz – An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Beacon Press)

Peter J. Harris – The Black Man of Happiness (Black Man of Happiness Project)

Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)

Martin Kilson – Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 (Harvard University Press)

Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster)

Laila Lalami – The Moor’s Account (Pantheon)

Manuel Luis Martinez – Los Duros (Floricanto Press)

Craig Santos Perez – from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn)

Carlos Santana, with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller – The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (Little, Brown and Company)

Ira Sukrungruang – Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press)

Astra Taylor – The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Henry Holt)

Lifetime Achievement: Anne Waldman

De prijzen worden op 25 oktober uitgereikt.

Uitgeverij Lebowski heeft in van de winnaars in het fonds: