Delicious Foods

Hurston/Wright Legacy · 2016 · WinnerPEN/Faulkner Award · 2016 · Winner

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction)	2016	Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	2016	Winner

About This Book

Recognized by the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2016.

About the Author

James HannahamAmerican

James Hannaham is an American novelist and artist. He is the author of Delicious Foods (2015), a darkly comic and morally complex novel about a young Black man whose mother is trapped in a modern slavery scheme on a Louisiana farm, narrated in part by crack cocaine personified. The novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2016, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Read more →