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Essays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles, Diaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances, Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least.

America Awards

FOR A LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL WRITING
Awarded by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
in loving memory of Anna Fahrni

The 2004 Award winner is:
JOSÉ SARAMAGO [PORTUGAL] 1922

Other winners:

1994 Aimé Cesaire [Martinique] 1913
1995 Harold Pinter [England] 1930
1996 José Donoso [Chile] 1924-1996 (awarded prior to his death)
1997 Friederike Mayröcker [Austria] 1924
1998 Rafael Alberti [Spain] 1902-1998 (awarded prior to his death)
1999 Jacques Roubaud [France] 1932
2000 Eudora Welty [USA] 1909-2001
2001 Inger Christensen [Denmark] 1935
2002 Peter Handke [Austria] 1942
2003 Adonis [Syria/Lebanon] 1930
2005 Andrea Zanzotto [Italy] 1921
2006 Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France] 1910

The rotating panel for The America Awards currently consists of Douglas Messerli [chairman], Will Alexander, Luigi Ballerini, Peter Constantine, Peter Glassgold, Deborah Meadows, Martin Nakell, John O’Brien, Marjorie Perloff, Joe Ross, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Vangelisti, and Mac Wellman.