Lillian Smith Book Award

E293221

literary award

The Lillian Smith Book Award is a literary prize honoring works that address issues of social justice, civil rights, and racial inequality in the American South.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Lillian Smith Book Award canonical	2
Lillian Smith was a white Southern writer and civil rights advocate	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary award ⓘ
associatedWith	Southern Regional Council civil rights work ⓘ civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ
awardFor	books about the American South ⓘ books addressing civil rights ⓘ books addressing racial inequality ⓘ books addressing social justice ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	authors writing about the American South ⓘ books published in the previous year ⓘ
focusesOn	African American experience ⓘ human rights ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ social change ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	fiction literature ⓘ nonfiction literature ⓘ
hasAwardedDiscipline	cultural studies ⓘ history ⓘ literature ⓘ memoir ⓘ
hasCategory	fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
hasMottoOrTheme	"to recognize authors whose books extend the legacy of Lillian Smith" ⓘ
inception	1968 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
location	Georgia ⓘ
namedAfter	Lillian Smith ⓘ
namedAfterDescription	Lillian Smith Book Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lillian Smith was a white Southern writer and civil rights advocate
namedAfterNotableWork	Strange Fruit ⓘ
namedAfterOccupation	author ⓘ
notableWinner	Isabel Wilkerson ⓘ John Lewis ⓘ Michelle Alexander ⓘ Taylor Branch ⓘ
presentedBy	Decatur Book Festival ⓘ Southern Regional Council ⓘ University of Georgia ⓘ surface form: University of Georgia Libraries
purpose	to honor writing that challenges segregation and racism ⓘ to promote social justice in the American South ⓘ
region	Southern United States ⓘ surface form: American South
sponsor	Southern Regional Council ⓘ
typicalAnnouncementTime	late summer ⓘ
website	https://www.lilliansmithbookawards.org ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Lillian Smith Book Award
Description of subject: The Lillian Smith Book Award is a literary prize honoring works that address issues of social justice, civil rights, and racial inequality in the American South.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Alice Walker → awardReceived → Lillian Smith Book Award ⓘ

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker → awardReceived → Lillian Smith Book Award ⓘ

Lillian Smith Book Award → namedAfterDescription → Lillian Smith Book Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lillian Smith was a white Southern writer and civil rights advocate