28th Annual Presentation
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

Friday, April 25, 2008
8 p.m. • Royce Hall, UCLA

The 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday evening, April 25, 2008, at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Master of Ceremonies

Gay Talese

Presenters

•Jim Newton/Biography  •Scott Simon/Current Interest  •Ngugi Wa Thiong'O/Fiction  •Susan Salter Reynolds/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction  •Douglas Brinkley/History  •Paula Woods/Mystery-Thriller  •Mark Doty/ Poetry  •Dava Sobel/Science and Technology  •Francesca Lia Block/Young Adult Fiction  •David L. Ulin/Robert Kirsch Award.

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners

Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin (Alfred A. Knopf)

Current Interest
Elizabeth D. Samet, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fiction
Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me (Harcourt)

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books)

History
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)

Mystery/Thriller
Karin Fossum {Translated by Charlotte Barslund} The Indian Bride (Harcourt)

Poetry
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart: Poems (W.W. Norton)

Science & Technology
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am A Strange Loop (Basic Books)

Young Adult Fiction
Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles) (Eos Books/HarperCollins)

2007 Robert Kirsch Award
Maxine Hong Kingston

Click here for a complete list of 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists.

For a complete list of past Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners, click here.