Awards spotlight. (between the lines).The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, founded by author Marita Golden and Border's Books and Music have joined together to present the first annual Legacy Awards. The three $10,000 and four $5,000 awards will honor the best books by authors of African descent in three categories: debut/first fiction, literary fiction and nonfiction non·fic·tion n. 1. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction. 2. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind. . Winners will be announced at a ceremony at the National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History is a museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution and located in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall. It opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology and adopted its current name in 1980. in Washington, D.C. in September 2002. Beverley Naidoo's young adult novel The Other Side of Truth is the winner of the National Library Association's Carnegie Medal 2000. The story, set in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. and London, details ten-year-old Sade's struggles after her mother is shot as a consequence of her father's outspoken writing against the government. Kimberla Lawson Roby's Casting the First Stone was named Blackboard's Fiction Book of the Year for 2001. Carl Weber Carl Weber is a theatre director and has been Professor of drama at Stanford University since 1984. He was Bertolt Brecht's directing assistant and a dramaturg and actor at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952. , Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Bookseller of the Year for 2000, presented the award to Roby at the Book and Author Breakfast during Book Expo America held last June in Chicago. |
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