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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

2005 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award™ Winners

[see all 2005 nominees]

Fiction Winner:

Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
(Atria Books)

by Maryse Conde

 

Fiction Finalists:

The Dew Breaker
(Alfred A. Knopf)



by Edwidge Danticat

The Madonna of Excelsior
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)


by Zake Mda

 

Debut Fiction Winner:

Graceland
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)

by Chris Abani

 

Nonfiction Winner:

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
(W.W. Norton)

by Alexis DeVeaux

 

Nonfiction Finalists:

The End of Blackness
(Pantheon Books)




by Debra J. Dickerson

A Continent for the Taking
(Alfred A. Knopf)

by Howard French

 

Contemporary Fiction Winner:

A Woman's Worth
(One World/Ballantine Books)

by Tracy Price-Thompson