AWLP2021

Authors nominated for the Aspen Words Literary Prize discuss writing when the real world became stranger than fiction.

Her novel The Night Watchman is based on the life of her extraordinary grandfather who fought against Native dispossession.

Drawn from Ugandan folklore, her novel illuminates themes of feminism and the pressures of cultural assimilation.

They deal with serious topics, but among these are also stunning love stories and characters who will make you laugh out loud.

The author’s latest work Leave the World Behind examines race, class, parenthood, and environmental issues.

Diane Cook’s new novel illustrates how environmental calamity will affect all of us—unless we change course.

Washington’s novel Memorial tackles big issues like race with humor and real people and an electric energy.

Her book Against the Loveless World follows Nahr, a Palestinian refugee who tells her story from a solitary-confinement cell in Israel.

Her book The Vanishing Half combines a tale of love, abandonment, and betrayal with deep social insights about race and identity.

Their latest novel The Death of Vivek Oji is a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.