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On April 23rd 2010, The Los Angeles Times announced the winners of its 30th Annual Book Prizes at a ceremony that kicked off the publication’s 2010 Festival of Books — the country’s largest public literary festival. Established in 1980, the Prizes honor extraordinary authors and their works in 12 categories, including the first-ever Graphic Novel genre.
The winners of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are:
Biography
DOROTHEA LANGE: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Current Interest
ZEITOUN by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s Books)
Fiction
A HAPPY MARRIAGE by Rafael Yglesias (Scribner)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
AMERICAN RUST by Philipp Meyer (Spiegel & Grau)
Graphic Novel
ASTERIOS POLYP by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)
History
GOLDEN DREAMS: California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr (Oxford University Press)
Mystery/Thriller
THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST by Stuart Neville (SOHO Press)
Poetry
PRACTICAL WATER by Brenda Hillman (Wesleyan University Press)
Science & Technology
THE STRANGEST MAN: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo (Basic Books/ Penguin)
Young Adult Literature
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking Children’s Books / Penguin)
2009 Innovator’s Award Winner
Dave Eggers
2009 Robert Kirsch Award Winner
Evan S. Connell
Read more about the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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The 2010 Caldecott Medal winner is The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney (Little Brown and Company Books for Young Readers).
The 2010 Newberry Award winner is When You Reach Me written by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books).
The 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature winner is Going Bovine written by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers).
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Ten years of great southern lit for $9.95!
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