The 36th edition of annual American Book Awards was on 20 July 2015 announced by the Before Columbus Foundation. The foundation named the 2015 American Book Award winners, however they will be formally presented with the award on 25 October 2015 at the SF Jazz Centre, San Francisco.
The 2015 American Book Award Winners are:
| Winners | Books |
| Hisham Aidi | Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Vintage) |
| Arlene Biala | Her beckoning hands (Word Poetry) |
| Arthur Dong | Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 (DeepFocus Productions) |
| Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Beacon Press) |
| Peter J. Harris | The Black Man of Happiness (Black Man of Happiness Project) |
| Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books) |
| Martin Kilson | Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 (Harvard University Press) |
| Naomi Klein | This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster) |
| Laila Lalami | The Moor’s Account (Pantheon) |
| Manuel Luis Martinez | Los Duros (Floricanto Press) |
| Craig Santos Perez | From unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn) |
| Carlos Santana, with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller | The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (Little, Brown and Company) |
| Ira Sukrungruang | Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press) |
| Astra Taylor | The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Henry Holt) |
The Lifetime Achievement award under the American Book Award 2015 went to Anne Waldman.
About American Book Awards
• The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.
• The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, a non-profit educational and service organisation founded in 1976 by author-playwright Ishmael Reed.
• The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers.
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