{"id":13573,"date":"2015-08-11T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=13573"},"modified":"2015-08-11T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:06:26","slug":"2015-arab-american-book-awards-go-to-much-lauded-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/2015-arab-american-book-awards-go-to-much-lauded-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Arab-American Book Awards Go to Much-lauded\u00a0Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

via the great Arab literature (in English)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

BY MLYNXQUALEY<\/a><\/span><\/span> on<\/em> 0<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n

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Laila Lalami<\/em>\u00a0and Rabih Alameddine<\/em> were the two headliners on the 2015 Arab-American Book Awards winners\u2019 list.\u00a0Both their winning\u00a0novels have\u00a0already\u00a0taken major laurels:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alameddine\u2019s acclaimed\u00a0An Unnecessary Woman<\/i>\u00a0was a finalist for the US\u2019s National Book Award,\u00a0while Lalami\u2019s\u00a0The Moor\u2019s Account<\/i>\u00a0was a Pulitzer finalist, a winner of the American Book award, and is currently longlisted for the Man Booker. These two novels make for unusually high-profile co-winners of this year\u2019s AABA fiction prize, announced yesterday.<\/p>\n

Other winning titles were\u00a0Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past,\u00a0<\/em>by Sally Howell, which took the nonfiction prize;\u00a0Tahrir Suite,\u00a0<\/em>by Matthew Shenoda, which took the George Ellenbogen Poetry Award; and\u00a0The Turtle of Oman,\u00a0<\/em>by Naomi Shihab Nye, which took the children\u2019s and young-adult award.<\/p>\n

Nye has been on the AABA list twice before: with an honorable mention for her collection of poetry,Transfer<\/em>, in 2012, and as the winner of the children and young-adult prize for her Honeybee<\/em>\u00a0in 2009.<\/p>\n

There were also two honorable mentions this year. One was in poetry:\u00a0And the Time Is\u2026: Poems, 1958-2013, <\/i>by Samuel Hazo. The other was in the children\u2019s and young-adult category, for\u00a0The Olive Tree,<\/i>written by Elsa Marston and illustrated by Claire Ewart.<\/p>\n

The authors will be honored during the\u00a0Arab American Book Award ceremony and reception on\u00a0Thursday, Oct. 29, in Dearborn, Michigan. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The awards, which are now in their ninth year, are sponsored by the Arab American National Museum, which recently began a new initiative to increase readership of Arab-American works and to encourage book clubs and educators to select books by Arab Americans:\u00a0a set of reading & discussion guides for the award-winning titles. Guides for the 2014 winners, including Sinan Antoon\u2019s\u00a0The Corpse Washer<\/i>, are available for free download at arabamericanmuseum.org\/bookaward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to a news release from the Arab American National Museum, reading guides for 2015\u2019s winning titles will be available soon.<\/p>\n

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