Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Book PrizesLos Angeles Times Festival of Books - Book Prizes April 25 2008
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners,
1980-2008

Listed by Year

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005  
1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006  
1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007  
1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008  
1984 1989 1994 1999 2004    

 

Listed by Award

Biography >

Winner:
Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the
Campaign Against Lynching
(Amistad/HarperCollins)


Current Interest >

Winner:
Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
(The Penguin Press)


Fiction >

Winner:
Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)


The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction >

Winner:
Zoë Ferraris, Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)


History >

Winner:
Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
(The Penguin Press)


Mystery/Thriller >

Winner:
Michael Koryta, Envy the Night
(Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur)


Poetry >

Winner:
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)


Science & Technology >

Winner:
Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
(Little, Brown and Co.)


Young Adult Literature >

Winner:
Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins)


The Robert Kirsch Award >

 

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