Charles Bernstein
America Award 2025 to Charles Bernstein
AMERICA AWARDS
FOR A LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL WRITING
Awarded by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
in loving memory of Anna Fahrni
The 2025 America Award winner is:
CHARLES BERNSTEIN (1950) [USA]
Previous Winners:
1994 Aimé Césaire [Martinique] 1913-2008
1995 Harold Pinter [UK] 1930-2008
1996 José Donoso [Chile] 1924-1996 (awarded prior to his death)
1997 Friederike Mayröcker [Austria] 1924-2021
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] 1935-2009
2002 Peter Handke [Austria] 1942
2003 Adonis [Syria/Lebanon] 1930
2004 José Saramago [Portugal] 1922-2010
2005 Andrea Zanzotto [Italy] 1921-2011
2006 Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France] 1910-2007
2007 Paavo Haavikko [Finland] 1931-2008
2008 John Ashbery [USA] 1927-2017
2009 Günter Kunert [GDR/Germany] 1929-2019
2010 Javier Marías [Spain] 1951-2022
2011 Ko Un [South Korea] 1933
2012 Ivo Michiels [Belgium] 1923-2012 (awarded prior to his death)
2013 Reiner Kunze [GDR/Germany] 1933
2014 László Krasznahorkai [Hungary] 1954
2015 Edward Albee [USA] 1928-2016
2016 César Aira [Argentina] 1949
2017 Tom Stoppard [b. Czechoslovakia / lives UK] 1937
2018 Haruki Murakami [Japan] 1949
2019 Nicole Brossard [Canada (writes in French)] 1943
2020 Mario Vargas Llosa [Peru] 1936
2021 Rosmarie Waldrop [b. Germany / lives USA] 1935
2022 Gerhard Rühm [Austria] 1930
2023 Ismail Kadare [Albania] 1936
2024 Can Xue [China] 1953
America Awards
The judges comprise a rotating panel of six to eight poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics.
