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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Announced

April 12, 2016

The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at the Los Angeles Festival of Books over the weekend.

In addition to previously announced award winners Juan Felipe Herrera (for the Robert Kirsch Award) and James Patterson (for the Innovator’s Award), this year’s book prizes included works in the categories of Biography, Current Interest, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comics, History, Mystery/Thriller, Poetry, Science and Technology, First Fiction, and Young Adult Literature.

The winner for Biography was Hayden Herrera for his book, Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); for Current Interest, the winner was Sarah Chayes for Thieves of the State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (W.W. Norton); for Fiction, the winner was Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney, for The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House Press); for Graphic Novel/Comics, the winner was Riad Sattouf for Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984: A Graphic Memoir (Metropolitan Books); for History, the winner was Dan Ephron’s Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel (W.W. Norton); for Mystery/Thriller, the winner was Don Winslow for his book, The Cartel (Alfred A. Knopf); for Poetry, the winner was Jorie Graham for From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco/HarperCollins); for Science and Technology, the winner was Andrea Wulf for The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Alfred A. Knopf); for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the winner was Chigozie Obioma for The Fisherman (Little, Brown); and for Young Adult Literature, the winner was Marilyn Nelson for My Seneca Village (namelos).

For the list that includes the names of finalists, check out the Los Angeles Times.


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