О премии

Медаль Эндрю Карнеги — ежегодная литературная награда США, присуждаемая за выдающиеся достижения в литературе и публицистике авторам книг, изданных в США.

Медаль была учреждена в 2012 году и названа в честь американского предпринимателя и филантропа Эндрю Карнеги, который глубоко верил в силу книг и обучения в деле изменения мира.

Учредителями и спонсорами премии являются Корпорация Карнеги Нью-Йорка и Американская библиотечная ассоциация (ALA).

Медаль присуждается за книги, изданные в предыдущем календарном году, по двум номинациям:
- художественная литература,
- публицистика.

В сентябре обнародуется длинный список, состоящий не более чем из 50 произведений.
В октябре, на мероприятии в ALA Midwinter Meeting объявляются шесть финалистов (по три финалиста в каждой номинации). Два победителя (по одному в каждой номинации) объявляются на церемонии вручения премий Rusa Book and Media Awards на заседании Американской библиотечной ассоциации в середине зимы.
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Лауреатам вручают медали Эндрю Карнеги и денежные премии в размере 5 000 долларов США, финалисты получают только денежные премии в размере 1 500 долларов.

Жанры: Современная зарубежная литература, Публицистическая литература, Публицистика, Современная проза Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2012 г. Последнее вручение: 2025 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2025-winners

Номинации

Художественная книга
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction

Премия присуждается за выдающиеся достижения в художественной литературе.

Публицистика
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction

Премия присуждается за выдающиеся достижения в публицистике.

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26 января 2025 г. — победители

Художественная книга
James
Percival Everett 4.0
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with electrifying humor and lacerating observations, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
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Публицистика
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko 0.0
Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.

A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be “a walk in the park.” Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as “the toughest hike in the world.”

The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined—and came within a hair’s breadth of killing them both. They struggled to make their way through the all but impenetrable reaches of its truest wilderness, a vertical labyrinth of thousand-foot cliffs and crumbling ledges where water is measured out by the teaspoon and every step is fraught with peril—and where, even today, there is still no trail along the length of the country’s best-known and most iconic park.

Along the way, veteran long-distance hikers ushered them into secret pockets, invisible to the millions of tourists gathered on the rim, where only a handful of humans have ever laid eyes. Members of the canyon’s eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths at the center of our national parks—and exposed them to the impinging threats of commercial tourism. Even Fedarko’s dying father, who had first pointed him toward the canyon more than forty years earlier but had never set foot there himself, opened him to a new way of seeing the landscape.

And always, there was the great gorge itself: austere and unforgiving but suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty.

A Walk in the Park is a singular portrait of a sublime place, and a deeply moving plea for the preservation of America’s greatest natural treasure.
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В 2018 году медаль Эндрю Карнеги в номинации "Публицистика" была первоначально присуждена Шерману Алекси (Sherman Alexie) за его книгу "Вам не нужно говорить, что вы меня любите: мемуары" (You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir), но Алекси отказался от награды на фоне обвинений его в сексуальных домогательствах. В ответ на это организаторы Премии объявили, что признают его решение и медаль Карнеги за документальную книгу в 2018 году присуждаться не будет.

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