Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
Awarded for	Best adult fiction & non-fiction
Sponsored by	Carnegie Corporation (main sponsor) Booklist (ALA co-sponsor) Reference and User Services Association (ALA co-sponsor)
Location	ALA Annual Conference
Country	USA
Presented by	American Library Association
Hosted by	American Library Association
Reward(s)	$5,000 (winner) $1,500 (finalists)
First awarded	2012
Official website	Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year.^[1] They are named in honor of nineteenth-century American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in recognition of his deep belief in the power of books and learning to change the world.^[2] The award is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and administered by the American Library Association (ALA).^[1] Booklist and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) cosponsor the awards.^[1] The shortlist and winners are selected by a seven-member selection committee of library experts who work with adult readers.^[1] The annually appointed selection committee includes a chair, three Booklist editors or contributors, and three former members of RUSA CODES Notable Books Council.^[1]

The winners, one each for fiction and nonfiction, are announced at an event in June at the American Library Association Annual Conference; winning authors receive a $5,000 cash award, and two finalists in each category receive $1,500.^[1]

Finalists and winners

Year	Fiction			Non-fiction			Refs.
	Winner	Work	Finalists	Winner	Work	Finalists
2012	Anne Enright	The Forgotten Waltz	Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin Karen Russell, Swamplandia!	Robert K. Massie	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman	James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention	[3][4]
2013	Richard Ford	Canada	Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her Louise Erdrich, The Round House	Timothy Egan	Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis	Jill Lepore, The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic	[5][6][7]
2014	Donna Tartt	The Goldfinch	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light	Doris Kearns Goodwin	The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism	Nicholas A. Basbanes, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital	[8]
2015	Anthony Doerr	All the Light We Cannot See	Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster	Bryan Stevenson	Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption	Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David	[9][10]
2016	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer	Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life	Sally Mann	Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs	Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World	[11][12]

References

1. "Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction (official website)". Retrieved January 17, 2016.
2. "Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association Announce New Literary Prizes". carnegie.org. March 5, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
3. Wyatt, Neal (May 21, 2012). "Wyatt's World: The Carnegie Medals Short List". Library Journal. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
4. Kellogg, Carolyn (June 25, 2012). "First-ever Carnegie Awards in Literature go to Enright, Massie". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
5. Bill Ott (June 30, 2013). "Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.". Booklist. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
6. Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013). "2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Library Journal. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
7. "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
8. Italie, Hillel (June 30, 2014). "Tartt, Goodwin awarded Carnegie medals". Seattle Times. Associated Press. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
9. "ALA unveils shortlist for 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction" (Press release). Boston: American Library Association. PR Newswire. April 6, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
10. "Anthony Doerr wins Carnegie Medal for fiction". Midcontinent Communications. Associated Press. June 28, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
11. "2016 Carnegie Medals Shortlist Announced". American Libraries Magazine. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
12. ""The Sympathizer," "Hold Still," receive 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction" (Press release). Boston: American Library Association. PR Newswire. January 10, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2016.

External links

• Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction, official website.