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Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West.[1] It is named in honor of Robert Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980 whose idea it was to establish the book prizes.
The Book Prize program was founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. An award named for Seidenbaum was added a year after his death in 1990. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, and may be written originally in languages other than English. The author of each winning book and the Kirsch Award recipient receives a citation and $500. The prizes are presented the day before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Winners
[edit]Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
[edit]Biography
[edit]Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
[edit]The Los Angeles Times – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose has been awarded in partnership with the Christopher Isherwood Foundation since April 2017 (for 2016).[30]
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
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2016 | Wesley Lowery | "They Can't Kill Us All": Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement | Little, Brown and Company | [12][30] |
2017 | Benjamin Taylor | The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered | Penguin Books | [13][30] |
2018 | Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir | Scribner Book Company | [14][30] |
2019 | Emily Bernard | Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine | Alfred A. Knopf | [15][25][30] |
2020 | Andrew O'Hagan | Mayflies | [26][30] | |
2021 | Deborah Levy | Real Estate: A Living Autobiography | Bloomsbury | [17][18] |
2022 | Javier Zamora | Solito: A Memoir. | Hogarth Press | [20][27] |
2023 | Claire Dederer | Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma | Alfred A. Knopf | [21] |
Current interest
[edit]Fiction
[edit]Graphic Novel/Comics
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
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2009 | David Mazzucchelli | Asterios Polyp | Pantheon | [5] |
2010 | Adam Hines | Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One | AdHouse Books | [6] |
2011 | Carla Speed McNeil | Finder: Voice | Dark Horse | [7] |
2012 | Sammy Harkham | Everything Together: Collected Stories | PictureBox | [8] |
2013 | Ulli Lust | Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life | Fantagraphics | [9] |
2014 | Jaime Hernandez | The Love Bunglers | Fantagraphics | [10] |
2015 | Riad Sattouf | Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984 | Metropolitan Books | |
2016 | Nick Drnaso | Beverly | Drawn & Quarterly | [12] |
2017 | Leslie Stein | Present | Drawn & Quarterly | [13] |
2018 | Tillie Walden | On A Sunbeam | First Second Books | [14] |
2019 | Eleanor Davis | The Hard Tomorrow | Drawn & Quarterly | [15] |
2020 | Bishakh Kumar Som | Apsara Engine | [16] | |
2021 | R. Kikuo Johnson | No One Else | Fantagraphics | [17][18] |
2022 | Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith | Wash Day Diaries | [20] | |
2023 | Emily Carroll | A Guest in the House | First Second Books | [21] |
History
[edit]Mystery/thriller
[edit]Poetry
[edit]Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
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2019 | Marlon James | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | [15][34] | |
2020 | Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | [26] | |
2021 | Zen Cho | Spirits Abroad: Stories | Small Beer | [17][18] |
2022 | Nicola Griffith | Spear | [20] | |
2023 | Tananarive Due | The Reformatory | Saga Press | [21] |
Science and technology
[edit]Young adult literature
[edit]Innovator's Award
[edit]Year | Author | Ref. |
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2009 | Dave Eggers | [5] |
2010 | Powell's Books, bookstore | [6] |
2011 | Figment, self-publishing platform | [7] |
2012 | Margaret Atwood | [8] |
2013 | John Green | |
2014 | LeVar Burton | [10] |
2015 | James Patterson | |
2016 | Rueben Martinez | |
2017 | Glory Edim | |
2018 | Library of America | |
2019 | WriteGirl | [25] |
2020 | Book Industry Charitable Foundation | [26] |
2021 | Reginald Dwayne Betts | [17] |
2022 | Freedom to Read Foundation | [20][27] |
Robert Kirsch Award
[edit]Year | Author | Ref. |
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1980 | Wallace Stegner | |
1981 | Wright Morris | |
1982 | Ross Macdonald | |
1983 | M. F. K. Fisher | |
1984 | Christopher Isherwood | |
1985 | Janet Lewis | |
1986 | Kay Boyle | |
1987 | Paul Horgan | |
1988 | Thom Gunn | |
1989 | Karl Shapiro | |
1990 | Czeslaw Milosz | |
1991 | Ken Kesey | |
1992 | Diane Johnson | |
1993 | Carolyn See | |
1994 | Brian Moore | |
1995 | Stephen J. Pyne | |
1996 | Gary Snyder | |
1997 | Ray Bradbury | |
1998 | John Sanford | |
1999 | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
2000 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | |
2001 | Tillie Olsen | |
2002 | Larry McMurtry | |
2003 | Ishmael Reed | |
2004 | Tony Hillerman | |
2005 | Joan Didion | [2] |
2006 | William Kittredge | |
2007 | Maxine Hong Kingston | |
2008 | Robert Alter | [4] |
2009 | Evan S. Connell | [5] |
2010 | Beverly Cleary | [6] |
2011 | Rudolfo Anaya | [7] |
2012 | Kevin Starr | [8] |
2013 | Susan Straight | [9] |
2014 | TC Boyle | [10] |
2015 | Juan Felipe Herrera | |
2016 | Thomas McGuane | |
2017 | John Rechy | |
2018 | Terry Tempest Williams | |
2019 | Walter Mosley | [25] |
2020 | Leslie Marmon Silko | |
2021 | Luis J. Rodriguez | [17] |
2022 | James Ellroy | [20][27] |
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External links
[edit]- Honorees by Year and Award Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.