| America Award | |
| Awarded For: | A lifetime contribution to international writing |
| Presenter: | Contemporary Arts Educational Project (in loving memory of Anna Fahrni) |
| Date: | annual |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Website: | www.greeninteger.com/america.cfm |
The America Award is a lifetime achievement literary award for international writers. It describes itself as a modest attempt at providing alternatives to the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was first presented in 1994. The award does not entail any prize money.[1] It is sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc., in loving memory of Anna Fahrni, and by the publisher Green Integer.
Each year, the judges comprise a rotating panel of six to eight poets, prose writers, playwrights and literary critics. The chairman is Douglas Messerli.[2]