2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Presented at UCLA's Royce Hall
BIOGRAPHY
Winner: Hilary Spurling, Matisse the
Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (Alfred
A. Knopf)
CURRENT INTEREST
Winner: Anthony Shadid, Night Draws
Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War (Henry Holt)
FICTION
Winner: Gabriel García Mårquéz, Memories
of My Melancholy Whores [translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman]
(Alfred A. Knopf)
FIRST FICTION (The Art Seidenbaum Award)
Winner: Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No
Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins)
HISTORY
Winner: Adam Hochschild, Bury the
Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton
Mifflin)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Winner: Robert Littell, Legends:
A Novel of Dissimulation (Overlook Press)
POETRY
Winner: Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven:
Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Winner: Diana Preston, Before the Fallout:
From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Walker & Company)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Winner: Per Nilsson, You & You & You [translated
from the Swedish by Tara Chace] (Front Street/Boyds Mills Press)