Awards.The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for 2003 were announced on October 11, 2003. Debut Fiction: Tayari Jones Tayari Jones is an African American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Born in 1970, she was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and educated at Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State University. (Leaving Atlanta), winner; Zelda Lockhart (Fifth Born), finalist; Nicole Bailey Williams (A Little Piece of Sky), finalist. Fiction: Zakes Mda Zakes Mda is the pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He was born in Herschel, South Africa in 1948, and after studying and working in South Africa, Lesotho and the United Kingdom, is now a professor in the English Department at (The Heart of Redness), winner; Victor Lavalle (The Estatic) finalist; Jewell Parker Rhodes Jewell Parker Rhodes (b.1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist. Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. (Douglass' Women), finalist. Nonfiction: Elizabeth McHenry (Forgotten Readers), winner; Karla F.C. Holloway (Passed On), Finalist; Carole Merritt (The Herndons), finalist. Nalo Hopkinson Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads) and short stories such as those in her collection won the latest Sunburst Award for her collection Skin Folk, published by Warner Aspect in 2001. The annual award is given to a Canadian writer of speculative fiction. for a novel of book-length collection. |
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