We Need Diverse Books Wins LOC Literacy Award

Sep 10, 2024

We Need Diverse Books has received the 2024 American Prize as part of this year's Library of Congress Literacy Awards, which recognizes organizations that "provide exemplary, innovative, sustainable, and replicable strategies to promote literacy and reading."

The American Prize, which comes with a $50,000 purse, is awarded annually to a U.S.-based organization that is "making a significant and measurable contribution to increasing literacy levels in the United States or the national awareness of the importance of literacy."

The other winners of this year's LOC Literary Awards include the LaundryCares Foundation, which won the David M. Rubenstein Prize; Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori, which took home the Kislak Family Foundation Prize; and the Alsama Project, which was awarded the International Prize. 

Since 2013, the LOC Literary Awards have provided more than $3 million in prizes to more than 180 institutions in 39 countries.

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