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  2. Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Wikipedia

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction , the PEN/Open Book Award , and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.

  3. NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People (paperback) Nominee [17] Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice: Nominee [17] 2020 Hal Banfield: I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer: Winner [18] Erica Campbell

  4. Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Wikipedia

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Winner [22] [23] [24] Wayétu Moore: She Would Be King: Finalist [23] Jamel Brinkley: A Lucky Man: Finalist [23] Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black: Nominee [23] David Chariandy: Brother: Nominee Esi Edugyan: Washington Black: Nominee 2020 Curdella Forbes: A Tall History of Sugar: Winner ...

  5. ‘Sahar Speaks’ by Huffington Post

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    There is no one better to tell the story of womenhood in Afghanistan than the women themselves

  6. Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Winner [41] Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry: Finalist [42] Katya Apekina: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish: R. O. Kwon: The Incendiaries: Tommy Orange: There There: 2019 Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift: Winner [43] [44] De’Shawn Charles Winslow: In West Mills: Finalist [45] Sarah Elaine ...

  7. Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Wikipedia

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Atria/37 Ink [14] 2019 Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift: Hogarth Press [15] 2020 Deesha Philyaw: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: West Virginia University Press [16] 2021 Jackie Polzin: Brood: Doubleday [17] [18] 2022 Aamina Ahmad: The Return of Faraz Ali: Hodder & Stoughton [19] [20] 2023 ...

  8. emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.

  9. Kirkus Prize - Wikipedia

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    Nafissa Thompson-Spires: Heads of the Colored People: Katie Williams: Tell the Machine Goodnight: 2019 Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys [17] [18] Carolina de Robertis: Cantoras [17] [19] Laila Lalami: The Other Americans: Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive: Yūko Tsushima Geraldine Harcourt (tr.) Territory of Light: Ocean Vuong: On Earth ...