Laird Hunt's novel, "Kind One," published last fall by Minneapolis' Coffee House Press, has won a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Hunt will be honored in September in Cleveland, Ohio, along with the four other winners--Andrew Solomon, for "Far From the Tree"; Kevin Powers for "The Yellow Birds"; Eugenia Gloria for "My Favorite Warlord"; and Wole Solyinka for "The Man Died."
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award was established in 1935 to honor books that make important contributions to understanding racism and diversity.
This is just the latest in a string of impressive awards Coffee House has received. In April, Ben Lerner (author of "Leaving the Atocha Station") and Anne Waldman, who has published many collections of poetry with Coffee House over the years, were both named Guggenheim Fellows.
Lerner's novel was also named runner-up for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
And, as previously reported here, "Kind One" and T. Geronimo Johnson's "Hold it 'Til it Hurts" were both finalists for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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