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NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA
BOOK AWARDS
Award List
A Bit of
History:
The Fred Cody Award & The Founding of Northern
California Book Reviewers
& The Northern California Book
Awards
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Fred
Cody was a book lover: a reviewer, and essayist. In
1956, he and his wife Pat Cody created Cody’s
Books in Berkeley, an independent literary
bookstore. Together, they encouraged the talents of
many emerging Bay Area writers. In 1981, Fred Cody
co-founded BABRA (now NCBR/Northern California Book
Reviewers). As Peter Carroll—the author,
historian, and book reviewer who came up with the
idea—tells it: “I met with Fred on the
day before Election Day 1980 (he was then reviewing
for the Berkeley Monthly and I was at the
Bay Guardian) and he agreed to
participate. The next day I had lunch with Pat Holt
(she was then Western Correspondent of
Publishers Weekly) and she agreed to call
a meeting&. She rounded up Bill Hogan from the
Chron. He was skeptical, but said okay. We
also had Mickey Friedman from The
Examiner, Ron Nowicki from San Francisco
Review of Books, Rita Fink from Pacific
Sun. The first meeting was in December 1980.
We later invited Diana Ketchum, The Oakland
Tribune, Connie Casey, San Jose Mercury
News, Wendy Lesser, Threepenny
Review, Frances Starn, Berkeley Telegraph,
the Contra Costa Times.&Joyce
Jenkins, Poetry Flash came along with
Emily Leider and Frances Mayes. Everyone had an
affliation with a publication. Henry Mayer was the
first freelancer.”
When Fred Cody died in 1983, BABRA created a
lifetime achievement award in his name to honor
northern California writers and literary figures
with an important body of work. These
award-recipients have enriched Northern California
through their writings and literary activities,
such as teaching, editing, and publishing; they
have served their communities well through
literature.
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Fiction
Awards
(Year represents the
year of book’s publication, award was presented the
following year.)
1981
Alice
Walker
You
Can’t Keep
a Good Woman
Down
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1982
Gina
Berriault
The
Infinite Passion
of Expectation
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1983
Ron
Loewinsohn
Magnetic
Fields
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1984
Harriet
Doerr
Stones
for Ibarra
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1985
Molly
Giles
Rough
Translations
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1986
Lynn
Freed
Home
Ground
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1987
Herbert
Wilner
The
Quarterback Speaks
to His God
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1988
Alice
Adams
Second
Chances
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1989
Amy
Tan
The
Joy Luck Club
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1990
Ella
Leffland
The
Knight, Death
and the Devil
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1991
Ron
Hansen
Mariette
in Ecstasy
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1992
Dorothy
Allison
Bastard
out of Carolina
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1993
Elizabeth
Tallent
Honey:
Stories
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1994
Linda
Raymond
Rocking
the Babies
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1995
Chitra
Banerjee Divakaruni
Arranged
Marriage
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1996
Gina
Berriault
Women
in Their Beds
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1997
Diane
Johnson
Le
Divorce
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1998
Lan
Samantha Chang
Hunger
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1999
Alfredo
Véa
Gods
Go Begging
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2000
Michael
Chabon
The
Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier and
Clay
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2001
Paul
LaFarge
Haussmann,
or the Distinction
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2002-Novel
Roger King
A
Girl from
Zanzibar
2002-Short
Fiction
Daniel
Coshnear
Jobs
& Other Preoccupations:
Stories
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2003-Novel
Tobias
Wolff
Old
School
2003-Short
Fiction
Julie
Orringer
How to
Breathe Underwater: Stories
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2004
Andrew
Sean Greer
The
Confessions
of Max
Tivoli
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2005
William
T. Vollmann
Europe
Central
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2006
James
Janko
Buffalo
Boy and Geronimo
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2007
Cristina
García
A
Handbook to Luck
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2008
Sylvia
Brownrigg
The
Delivery Room
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Nonfiction
Awards
(Year represents the
year of book’s publication, award was presented the
following year.)
1981
J.S.
Holloway
And
the World
Came Rushing In
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1982
Diane
Johnson
Terrorists
and Novelists
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1983
Bruno
Bettelheim
Freud
and Man’s Soul
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1984
Robert
Hass
Twentieth
Century Pleasures:
Prose on Poetry
Orville
Schell
Modern
Meat
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1985
Paul
Robinson
Opera
and Ideas
Carolyn
Wakeman
Yue
Daiyun To the Storm
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1986
Alex
Zwerdling
Virginia
Woolf
and the Real World
William
Finnegan
Crossing
the Line
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1987
Randy
Shilts
And
the Band Played On
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1988
Timothy
Ferris
Coming
of Age
in the Milky Way
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1989
Peter
Nabokov & Robert Easton
Native
American Architecture
Ronald
Takaki
Strangers
from a Different Shore
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1990
Linda
Neimann
Boomer:
Railroad Memoirs
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1991
Diane
Wood Middlebrook
Anne
Sexton: A Biography
Susan
Faludi
Backlash:
The Undeclared War
Against American
Women
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1992
Susan
Griffin
A
Chorus of Stones:
The Private Life of War
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1993
Stephen
Johnson, Gerald Haslam,
Robert Dawson
The
Great Central Valley:
California’s Heartland
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1994
Stewart
Brand
How
Buildings Learn
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1995
Joe
Kane
Savages
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1996
Victor
Davis Hanson
Fields
Without
Dreams
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1997
Ted
Gioia
The
History of Jazz
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1998
Adam
Hochshild
King
Leopold’s Ghost:
A Story of Greed, Terror,
and Heroism in Colonial
Africa
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1999
Freeman
House
Totem
Salmon:
Life Lessons From
Another Species
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2000
June
Jordan
Soldier:
A Poet’s
Childhood
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2001
Robert
M. Sapolsky
A
Primate’s Memoir
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2002/Co-winner
Daniel
Ellsberg
Secrets:
A Memoir of Vietnam
and the Pentagon Papers
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2002/Co-winner
Richard Rodriguez
Brown:
The Last Discovery of
America
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2003
Rebecca
Solnit
River
of Shadows:
Eadweard
Muybridge and
the Technological Wild West
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2004
Richard
Steven
Street
Beasts
of the
Field:
A
Narrative History
of
California
Farmworkers,
1769-1913
&
Photographing
Farmworkers
in
California
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2005
Adam
Hochschild
Bury
the Chains:
Prophets and Rebels
in the Fight to Free
an Empire’s Slaves
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2006
Michael
Pollan
The
Omnivore’s Dilemma:
A Natural History
of Four Meals
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2007
Lisa
Margonelli
Oil
on the Brain:
Adventures from the Pump
to the Pipeline
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2008-General
Nonfiction
Richard
A. Muller
Physics
for Future Presidents:
The Science Behind the
Headlines
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2008-Creative
Nonfiction
John
Adams
Hallelujah
Junction:
Composing an American Life
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Poetry
Awards
(Year represents the
year of book’s publication, award was presented the
following
year.)
1982
Thom Gunn
The
Passages of Joy
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1983
Jack Marshall
Arriving
on the Playing Fields of
Paradise
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1984
Czeslaw Milosz
The
Separate
Notebooks
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1985
August Kleinzahler
Storm
Over Hackensack
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1985
William Dickey
The
King of the Golden River
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1987
Edward Kleinschmidt
Magnetism
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1988
Philip Levine
A
Walk with Tom Jefferson
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1989
Adrienne Rich
Time’s
Power
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1990
Thomas Centolella
Terra
Firma
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1991
Czeslaw Milosz
Provinces:
Poems 1987-1991
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1992
Thom Gunn
The
Man With Night
Sweats
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1993
Brenda Hillman
Bright
Existence
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1994
Jane Hirshfield
The
October Palace
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1995
Czeslaw Milosz
Facing
the River
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1996
William Dickey
The
Education of Desire
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1997
Diana O’Hehir
Spells
For Not Dying Again
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1998
Jacqueline
Berger
The
Mythologies of Danger
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1999
Michael
McClure
Touching
the Edge
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2000
Forrest
Hamer
Middle
Ear
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2001
Jane
Hirshfield
Given
Sugar, Given Salt
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2002
Jack
Marshall
Gorgeous
Chaos:
New & Selected Poems 1965-2001
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2003
Suji
Kwock Kim
Notes
from the Divided
Country
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2004
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
Americus
I
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2005
Brian
Turner
Here,
Bullet3
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2006
Nathaniel
Mackey
Splay
Anthem
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2007
Robert
Hass
Time
and Materials:
Poems 1997-2005
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2008
Rusty
Morrison
the
true keeps calm biding
its story
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Children’s
Literature Awards
(Year represents the
year of book’s publication, award was presented the
following
year.)
1984
Mavis Jukes
Like
Jake and Me
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1985
Yoshiko Uchida
The
Happiest Ending
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1986
Gayle Pearson
Fish
Friday
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1987
Marilyn Sachs
Fran
Ellen’s House
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1988
Beverly Cleary
A
Girl From Yamhill:
A Memoir
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1989
Esther Blanc
Berchick
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1990
Ellen Kindt McKenzie
Stargone
John
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1991
Allen Say
Tree
of Cranes
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1992
Joe Cottonwood
Danny
Ain’t
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1993
Allen Say
Grandfather’s
Journey
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1994
Karen Cushman
Catherine
Called Birdy
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1995
Peggy Rathmann
Officer
Buckle and Gloria
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1996
Nancy Farmer
A
Girl Named Disaster
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1997
Ji-Li Jiang
Red
Scarf Girl:
A Memoir of the
Cultural Revolution
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1998
Elizabeth
Partridge
Restless
Spirit:
The Life and Work of
Dorothea Lange
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1999
Karen
English
Francie
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2000
Judd
Winick
Pedro
and Me: Friendship,
Loss, And What I Learned
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2001
An
Na
A
Step from Heaven
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2002
Nancy
Farmer
The
House of the Scorpion
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2003
Peggy
Rathmann
The
Day the Babies Crawled
Away
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2004
Gennifer
Choldenko
Al
Capone Does My
Shirts
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2003
2005
Denys
Cazet
The Perfect
Pumpkin Pie
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2006
Frank
Portman
King
Dork
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2007
Elisa
Kleven
The
Apple Doll
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2008
Pamela
S. Turner
A
Life in the Wild:
George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last
Great Beasts
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Translation
Awards
(Year represents the year of
book’s publication, award was presented the following
year.)
**Presented as a Special Recognition Award before
Translation category was
established
1985**
Translation
Stephen
Mitchell:
Rainier Maria Rilke
Sonnets to
Orpheus
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1986**
Translation
Stephen
Mitchell
and Chana Bloch:
Yehuda
Amichai
Selected Poetry
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1986**
Translation
Czeslaw
Milosz
& Robert
Hass:
Czeslaw Milosz
Unattainable Earth
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1986**
Translation
Reginald
Zeinick:
S.I. Kanatchikov
A Radical Worker
in Tsarist Russia
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1993**
Translation
Jim
Powell
Sappho:
A Garland,
Poems and Fragments
of Sappho
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1995**
Translation (winner is
co-translator)
Zack
Rogow:
André Breton
Earthlight
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1996**
Translation
Robert
Alter
Genesis
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2002**
Translation
Margret
Schaefer:
Arthur
Schnitzler
Night Games: And Other Stories and
Novellas
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2003
Translation
Anne
Milano Appel:
Stefano
Bortolussi
Head Above
Water
(Fuor d' Aqua)
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2005
Translation
John
Balcom
Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of
Stories, Essays, and Poems
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2006
Translation/co-winner
Brother
Anthony, Young-Moo Kim, Gary
Gach:
Ko Un
Flowers of a Moment
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2006
Translation/co-winner
Clare
You,
Richard
Silberg:
Ko Un
The Three Way Tavern
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2007
Translation
Carol
Cosman:
Albert
Camus
Exile and the Kingdom
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2008
Translation
Katherine
Silver:
Horacio
Castellanos Moya
Senselessness
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Special
Recognition Awards
(In this case, the
year represents the date the award was
presented.)
1985-Publishing
Sierra
Club
Books
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1987-Publishing
Medea
Benjamin
(editor,
translator)
& the
Institute for Food and Development
Policy
Don't Be Afraid, Gringo:
A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart
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1990-Publishing
Harriet
Rohmer
Children’s Book
Press
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1991-Publishing
William
Turnbull
& Jack Shoemaker
North Point
Press
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1995-Publishing
Carl Thelander,
Malcolm Margolin,
Michael Cronan
Life
on the Edge:
A Guide To California’s
Endangered Natural Resources:
Wildlife
(Heyday)
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1998-Publishing
& Literary Service
Poetry
Flash
A
Poetry Review &
Literary Calendar for the
West
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2000-Poetry &
Publishing
Overtime:
Selected Poems
by
Philip Whalen
Edited
by
Michael
Rothenberg
Introduction
by
Leslie
Scalapino
(Penguin)
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2001-Publishing
California
Fiction
Series
University
of California Press
Charlene Woodcock, Editor
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2002-Book Trade
Valerie
Walley
Random House
Book Representative
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2002-Special
Recognition Award:
Distinguished Contribution
to Literature & Culture
Czeslaw
Milosz
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2005-Literary
Service
The
Poetry Center
&
American Poetry
Archives
San
Francisco State University
In recognition of their
50th Anniversary
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2006-Publishing
Directed by Desire:
The Collected Poems
of June
Jordan
(Copper Canyon
Press)
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2007-Publishing
Veterans of War,
Veterans of
Peace
Edited by Maxine Hong Kingston
(Koa Books)
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2007-Literary
Service
River
of Words
International
Environmental
Poetry & Art Contest
for Children
K-12
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2008-Publishing
Eric
Karpeles
Paintings in Proust:
A Visual Companion to
“In Search of Lost Time”
(Thames &
Hudson)
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
Fred
Cody Award
Lifetime Achievement:
Community & Literature
(Year represents the
year the award was
presented.)
1984
Josephine
Miles
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1985
Robert
Duncan
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1986
Wright
Morris
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1988
Jessica
Mitford
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1987
M.F.K.
Fisher
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1989
Gary
Snyder
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1990
Alice
Walker
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1991
William
Everson
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1992
Kay
Boyle
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1993
Wallace
Stegner
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1994
Adrienne
Rich
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1995
Malcolm
Margolin
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1996
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
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1997
Robert
Hass
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1998
Maxine
Hong
Kingston
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1999
Ishmael
Reed
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2000
Carolyn
Kizer
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2001
Tillie
Olsen
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2002
Francisco
X.
Alarcón
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2003
Ronald
Takaki
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2004
Philip
Levine
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2005
Orville
Schell
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2006
Diane di
Prima
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2007
Andrew
Hoyem2004
Philip
Levine
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2008
Al
Young
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2009
Dorothy
Bryant
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INDEX
Fiction:
Novels & Short
Fiction
• Nonfiction
Poetry
• Children’s
Literature
• Translation
Special
Awards
• Fred
Cody Award
29th
Northern California Book Awards, April 18,
2010
(for books published in
2009)
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