America Award in Literature

America Award
Awarded forA lifetime contribution to international writing
Dateannual
Country United States
Presented byContemporary Arts Educational Project
(in loving memory of Anna Fahrni)
First awarded1994
Websitewww.greeninteger.com/america.cfm

The America Award is a lifetime achievement literary award for international writers. It describes itself as a modest attempt at providing alternatives to the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was first presented in 1994. The award does not entail any prize money.[1][2] It is sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc., in loving memory of Anna Fahrni, and by the publisher Green Integer.

Jury

Each year, the jury comprises 6 to 8 American poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics. The rotating panel has included Douglas Messerli [chairman], Will Alexander, Luigi Ballerini, Charles Bernstein, Peter Constantine, Peter Glassgold, Deborah Meadows, Martin Nakell, John O'Brien, Marjorie Perloff, Dennis Phillips, Joe Ross, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Vangelisti, and Mac Wellman.[3]

Recipients

References

  1. ^ Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.
  2. ^ America Awards, Green Integer, 2013, retrieved 5 December 2013
  3. ^ Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.

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