Amigos!!!
I just read the news from the Ohioana Library Association!!
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First given in 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards are the second oldest, and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. Nearly every major writer from Ohio in the past 80 years has been honored, from James Thurber to Toni Morrison.
Six of the Ohioana Award winners, as well as the Marvin Grant recipient, were selected by juries. The Readers’ Choice Award was determined by voters in a public online poll. Nearly 2,000 votes were cast for this year’s Readers’ Choice Award.
Listed below are the 2022 Ohioana Book Award winners. Click on the title to learn more about the author and their winning book.
Fiction: Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
Nonfiction: Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise of Black Peformance
About Ohio or an Ohioan: Brian Alexander, The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Poetry: Felicia Zamora, I Always Carry My Bones (look, WordPlay Cincy!!!)
Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature: Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
Juvenile Literature: Andrea Wang, Watercress
Readers’ Choice: Manuel Iris, The Parting Present / Lo que se irá
It is important to say that "The parting present/Lo que se irá" won the 2022 Ohioana Readers' Choice Book Award with the largest number of votes ever cast in the seven-year history of the poll, so I am very honored to be a writer (even crazier, a poet!) with readers. Thank you for that rare, fantastic honor, my friends.
Cheers!
