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T. Geronimo Johnson. T. Geronimo Johnson is an American filmmaker and novelist. His debut novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts, was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His sophomore novel, Welcome to Braggsville, won the 2015 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for ...
22 mag 2024 · Ernest J. Gaines (1933-2019) is a world-renowned novelist, short story writer, and teacher. Ernest J. Gaines is among the most widely read and highly respected contemporary authors of African American fiction.
- Cheylon Woods
- 2017
7 mag 2024 · Interview With T. Geronimo Johnson. The Ernest J. Gaines Literary Award winner talks about pop culture, rap music and the political extremes of California and Georgia. For the past nine years, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation has awarded an author with a prize named for Louisiana native writer Ernest J. Gaines.
21 mag 2024 · The application period for the 18th annual Gaines Award is now open. Please find details available at ernestjgainesaward.org/criteria. About Ernest Gaines: Literary legend Ernest J. Gaines was a native of Oscar in Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish which served as the setting for many of his novels.
22 mag 2024 · New Orleans, where roughly one-third of residents can barely read, has become the latest of several U.S. cities to use the book A Lesson Before Dying in a campaign to fight illiteracy and promote reading. Set in 1948, the novel addresses literacy, poverty and race relations in the segregated South.
- Cheylon Woods
- 2017
6 giorni fa · I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would at onset. I’m always in awe of the ancestors who were able to take the very real experiences they lived through and use their imagination to reframe traumas and history in order to imagine a new, better, and broader world.
8 mag 2024 · 5 Questions with Ernest Gaines Award Winner Nathan Harris. In its 15th year, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence was awarded to Seattle writer Nathan Harris for his debut novel, The Sweetness of Water. The award is a nationally acclaimed $15,000 prize given annually by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
