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The New York City Book Awards 2011

This year's awards included the first presentation of the Hornblower Award, given to an excellent New York City-related book by a first-time author.

Award for History

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson (Yale University Press)

Award for Fiction

Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole (Random House)

Hornblower Award

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman (Oxford University Press)

The 2011-2012 Book Awards Jury

Roger Pasquier, chair; Lucienne Bloch, Barbara Cohen, Jules Cohn, Andrew Dolkart, Joe Drape, Bobbie Leigh, Mark Magowan, Cynthia Saltzman, Meg Wolitzer

The awards presentation took place May 2, 2012.

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The winning authors: Teju Cole, Carla L. Peterson, and Suleiman Osman.

The winning authors: Teju Cole, Carla L. Peterson, and Suleiman Osman.

Carla Peterson

Carla Peterson

Teju Cole

Teju Cole

Jenny Lawrence and Suleiman Osman

Jenny Lawrence presents the inagural Hornblower Award to Suleiman Osman.

Trustee Ellen M. Iseman, Kathryn Berry, and Chairman of the Board Charles G. Berry.

Trustee Ellen M. Iseman, Kathryn Berry, and Chairman of the Board Charles G. Berry.

Photographs by Karen Smul.


The 2011-2012 New York City Book Awards were generously underwritten by Ellen M. Iseman.