America Award in Literature
| America Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | A lifetime contribution to international writing |
| Date | annual |
| Country |  United States |
| Presented by | Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc. (in loving memory of Anna Fahrni) |
| First awarded | 1994 |
| Official website | www.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]
Winners
- 1994 – Aimé Cesaire [Martinique]
- 1995 – Harold Pinter [England]
- 1996 – José Donoso [Chile] (awarded prior to his death)
- 1997 – Friederike Mayröcker [Austria]
- 1998 – Rafael Alberti [Spain] (awarded prior to his death)
- 1999 – Jacques Roubaud [France]
- 2000 – Eudora Welty [USA]
- 2001 – Inger Christensen [Denmark]
- 2002 – Peter Handke [Austria]
- 2003 – Adonis [Syria/Lebanon]
- 2004 – José Saramago [Portugal]
- 2005 – Andrea Zanzotto [Italy]
- 2006 – Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France]
- 2007 – Paavo Haavikko [Finland]
- 2008 – John Ashbery [USA]
- 2009 – Günter Kunert [GDR/Germany]
- 2010 – Javier Marías [Spain]
- 2011 – Ko Un [South Korea]
- 2012 – Ivo Michiels [Belgium]
- 2013 – Reiner Kunze [GDR/Germany]
- 2014 – László Krasznahorkai [Hungary]
- 2015 – Edward Albee [USA]
