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.
The award does not entail any prize money.
[1][2] 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.