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Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes presented its prestigious
Robert Kirsch Award to noted poet, City Lights publisher and
bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author of A Coney Island of
the Mind and What Is Poetry.
The Times also presented its first Book Prize in the
Mystery/Thriller category to Val McDermid, author of A
Place of Execution: A Novel (St. Martin's Press/Minotaur).
Ferlinghetti, McDermid and eight other Book Prize winners were
honored during a 7:30 p.m. awards ceremony held April 28 at
UCLA's Royce Hall. Each winner will receive a $1,000 cash award.
Prize-winning author, KCRW-FM commentator and Public Radio
International contributor Sandra Tsing Loh served as emcee.
The annual Robert Kirsch Award is presented to a living author
whose residence and/or focus is the American West and whose
contributions to American letters merit body-of-work recognition.
The award is named after the late Robert Kirsch -- novelist,
editor, teacher and one of the nation's foremost book critics --
who served as The Times' book critic for more than 25 years
prior to his death in 1980.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, established in 1980, recognize
outstanding literary achievements in nine categories: biography,
current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller,
poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. The Art
Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction commemorates the work of the
late Times book editor and Book Prize program founder.
The Book Prize winner in each of the eight remaining
categories is:
- Biography - William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis,
American (Alfred A. Knopf);
- Current Interest - Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in
the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the
Cold War (Simon & Schuster);
- Fiction - David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories
(Context Books);
- History - Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and
Execution of Robert Brasillach (University of Chicago Press);
- Poetry - Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Throne of Labdacus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux);
- Science and Technology - James Le Fanu, M.D.,
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (Carroll & Graf);
- Young Adult Fiction - Jacqueline Woodson, Miracle's Boys (G.P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young
Readers)
- Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction - Pankaj Mishra,
The Romantics: A Novel (Random House).
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists were selected by eight
three-member committees. (Fiction category judges also choose
the First Fiction finalists.) Most of the judges are published
authors and serve a two-year term. None of the judges, except
for the Kirsch award, are Los Angeles Times employees.
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