LA Times Book Winners and Carnagie Shortlist Winners Announced
Awards: L.A. Times Book Winners; Carnegie Medal Shortlist
The winners of the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, including the first graphic novel award, are:
Biography: Linda Gordon for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton)
Current Interest: Dave Eggers for Zeitoun (McSweeney's)
Fiction: Rafael Yglesias, for A Happy Marriage (Scribner)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Philipp Meyer for American Rust (Spiegel & Grau)
Graphic Novel: David Mazzucchelli for Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)
History: Kevin Starr for Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963 (Oxford University Press)
Mystery/Thriller: Stuart Neville for The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press)
Poetry: Brenda Hillman for Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press)
Science and Technology: Graham Farmelo for The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (Basic Books)
Young Adult Literature: Elizabeth Partridge for Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary (Viking Children's Books)
In addition, Evan S. Connell won the Robert Kirsch Award lifetime achievement award, and Dave Eggers won the first Innovator's Award.
The awards were announced during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend. For finalists and other information, go to latimesbookprizes.com.
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Eight titles have made the shortlist for Britain's 2010 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Carnegie Medal for children's writing:
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
"It's interesting that the eight titles that really stood out for us buck the current trend for escapism and the paranormal in young adult fiction," said Margaret Pemberton, chair of judges. "Their writers have been brave with their choice of subject matter and have confronted some very real issues, but the quality of the writing carries each and every story."
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