Winners Announced!











Winners Announced!











 

22nd BABRA AWARDS
for books published in 2002 by Northern California authors

Winners to be announced at
27th Northern California Book Awards, April 13, 2008
(for books published in 2007)


Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature Special Award: Translation

Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award


Fiction


Novels


The Monk Downstairs
by Tim Farrington
Harper San Francisco

House of Women
by Lynn Freed
Little, Brown & Company

A Girl from Zanzibar
by Roger King
Books & Co./Helen Marx Books

(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Spilling Clarence
by Anne Ursu
Hyperion


Short Story Collections


Some of Her Friends That Year:
New & Selected Stories

by Maxine Chernoff
Coffee House Press

Jobs & Other Preoccupations: Stories
by Daniel Coshnear
Helicon Nine Editions
(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Skin of the Earth:
Stories from Nevada's Back Country

by Art Gibney
University of Nevada Press

Emporium: Stories
by Adam Johnson
Viking



Poetry


The New World
by George Evans
Curbstone Press

Miniatures and Other Poems
by Barbara Guest
Wesleyan University Press

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Juan Felipe Herrera
University of Arizona Press

As Ever: Selected Poems
by Joanne Kyger
Penguin Poets

Gorgeous Chaos:
New & Selected Poems 1965--2001

by Jack Marshall
Coffee House Press

(2002 BABRA Winner!)



Non-Fiction


Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam
and the Pentagon Papers

by Daniel Ellsberg
Viking

(2002 BABRA Co-Winner!)

Seeing in the Dark:
How Backyard Stargazers
Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding
Earth from Interplanetary Peril

by Timothy Ferris
Simon & Schuster

A Long, Strange Trip:
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

by Dennis McNally
Broadway Books

Brown: The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez
Viking

(2002 BABRA Co-Winner!)


Children's Literature

The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer
by Ann Arnold
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Ruby's Wish
by Shirin Yim Bridges
illustrator Sophie Blackall
Chronicle Books

The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Atheneum

(2002 BABRA Winner!)

Ansel Adams: America's Photographer
by Beverly Gherman
Little, Brown & Company

This Land Was Made for You and Me:
The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

by Elizabeth Partridge
Viking
 


Special Award: Translation


Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas
by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher

 
Fred Cody Award
For Lifetime Achievement
Community & Literature



Multicultural scholar and author

Ronald Takaki

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27th Northern California Book Awards, April 13, 2008
(for books published in 2007)

Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature Special Award: Translation


22nd BABRA AWARDS