![]() Others books honored Monday included Woodfox’s “Solitary,” a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction Reginald Dwayne Betts’ poetry collection “Felon” Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s story collection, “Sabrina & Corina,” a National Book Award finalist for fiction and Erika Lee’s “America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. ![]() ![]() Takei worked with writers Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrator Harmony Scott on “They Called Us Enemy,” in which he remembers being forced into a camp at age 4, during World War II Vuong was cited for his novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” and Ogawa for “The Memory Police,” a National Book Award finalist last fall for best translated book (Stephen Snyder translated the novel from the Japanese). The awards were announced Monday by the Before Columbus Foundation, which champions diversity in literature. internment camp for Japanese Americans are the among the winners of the 41st annual American Book Awards. Fiction by Ocean Vuong and Yoko Ogawa, a prison memoir by Alfred Woodfox and a graphic memoir based on actor George Takei’s childhood in a U.S. George Teraoka, who was interned at the Rohwer camp, writes his name on an American flag during a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the World War II Japanese American Internment. ![]()
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