America Award in Literature

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America Award
Awarded forA lifetime contribution to international writing
Dateannual
CountryUnited States
Presented byContemporary Arts Educational Project
(in loving memory of Anna Fahrni)
First awarded1994
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.

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Judges

Each year, the judges comprise a rotating panel of six to eight poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics. The chairman is Douglas Messerli. [3]

Recipients

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References

  1. Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.
  2. America Awards, Green Integer, 2013, retrieved 5 December 2013
  3. Ivo Michiels receives America Award 2012. Flemish Literature Fund. 2012.