America Award | |
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Awarded for | A lifetime contribution to international writing |
Date | annual |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Contemporary Arts Educational Project (in loving memory of Anna Fahrni) |
First awarded | 1994 |
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.
Each year, the judges comprise a rotating panel of six to eight American poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics. The chairman is Douglas Messerli. [3]
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