The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been awarded (”Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awarded,” by Josh Getlin, Los Angeles Times). (I wrote it that way on purpose and it’s even more redundant than I ever dreamed.) And, yes, they do things differently on the Left Coast:
Fiction
A Woman in Jerusalem, by A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Hillel Halkin (Harcourt)
Biography
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler (Knopf)
History
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
Current Interest
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, by Ian Buruma (Penguin)
Mystery/Thriller
Echo Park, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
White Ghost Girls, by Alice Greenway (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
Young Adult Fiction
Tyrell, by Coe Booth (Push/Scholastic)
Science and Technology
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, by Eric R. Kandel (Norton)
Poetry
Ooga-Booga, by Frederick Seidel (Farrar)
Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement
William Kittredge
Aside from The Looming Tower and Echo Park, I wouldn’t say there’s an obvious or expected pick in the bunch (what, they didn’t read The Road?). But good for them for not dreaming up some reason to honor Philip Roth.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
[…] Gone to win Current Interest. But then again, they often do things differently on the Left Coast. Last year, for instance, they chose A Woman in Jerusalem over The Road. But I am positively delighted to see […]