Winners Announced!











Winners Announced!











Winners Announced!











Winners Announced!











 

24th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2004 by Northern California authors
27th Northern California Book Awards, April 13, 2008
(for books published in 2007)


Fiction  Poetry Nonfiction Children's Literature Translation

Special Award Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

 


Fiction
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Madras on Rainy Days
by Samina Ali
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Curse of the Appropriate Man
by Lynn Freed
Harvest Original/Harcourt

The Confessions of Max Tivoli
by Andrew Sean Greer
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2005 NCBA Winner!

The Woman Who Knew Gandhi
by Keith Heller
Mariner Books

The Painting
by Nina Schuyler
Algonquin Books

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Poetry
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What Is This Thing Called Love
by Kim Addonizio
W.W. Norton

Brother Fire
by W.S. Di Piero
Alfred A. Knopf

Americus I
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New Directions
2005 NCBA Winner!

Danger on Peaks
by Gary Snyder
Shoemaker & Hoard, Publishers

Country of Light
by Joseph Stroud
Copper Canyon Press

Saving the Appearances
by Liz Waldner
Ahsahta Press

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Nonfiction
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Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films
by Seymour Chatman,
Paul Duncan (Editor)
Taschen

John James Audubon: The Making of an American
Richard Rhodes
Alfred A. Knopf

American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl
and the Making of the Beat Generation

by Jonah Raskin
University of California Press

To be considered as one nominee:
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of
California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
&
Photographing Farmworkers in California
by Richard Steven Street
Stanford University Press
2005 NCBA Winner!

The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California
by Richard A. Walker
The New Press

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Children's Literature
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
by Gennifer Choldenko
Putnam
2005 NCBA Winner!

The Sea of Trolls
by Nancy Farmer
Atheneum

Wild About Books
by Judy Sierra
illustrated by Marc Brown
Alfred A. Knopf

The Gospel Cinderella
by Joyce Carol Thomas
illustrated by David Diaz

HarperCollins/Amistad

Hachiko, The True Story of a Loyal Dog
by Pamela Turner
illustrated by Yan Nascimbene
Houghton Mifflin

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Translation
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The Five Books of Moses
by Robert Alter
W.W. Norton

Border of a Dream: Selected Poems by Antonio Machado
translated by Willis Barnstone
Copper Canyon Press
2005 NCBA Winner!

Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda
translated by Stephen Kessler
City Lights Books

Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon
translated by Michael Lucey
Duke University Press

Green Wheat by Colette
translated by Zack Rogow
Sarabande Books

My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel
translated by Katherine Silver
Grove Press

This award is a collaboration with: The Center for Art in Translation,
PEN West Translation Committee, and the NCBR

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Special Award
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The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives
San Francisco State University
In recognition of their 50th Anniversary
 
Fred Cody Award
For Lifetime Achievement
Community & Literature
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Author & Dean of the UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism


Orville Schell

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


Fiction  Poetry Nonfiction Children's Literature Translation

Special Award Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award


24th Annual
Northern California Book Awards