NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
BOOK AWARDS

Past Awards

INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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



Fiction: Novels

1981
Alice Walker
You Can't Keep
a Good Woman Down


1982
Gina Berriault
The Infinite Passion
of Expectation

1983
Ron Loewinsohn
Magnetic Fields

1984
Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra

1985
Molly Giles
Rough Translations

1986
Lynn Freed
Home Ground

1987
Herbert Wilner
The Quarterback Speaks
to His God

1988
Alice Adams
Second Chances

1989
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club

1990
Ella Leffland
The Knight, Death
and the Devil

1991
Ron Hansen
Mariette in Ecstasy

1992
Dorothy Allison
Bastard out of Carolina

1993
Elizabeth Tallent
Honey: Stories

1994
Linda Raymond
Rocking the Babies

1995
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Arranged Marriage

1996
Gina Berriault
Women in Their Beds

1997
Diane Johnson
Le Divorce

1998
Lan Samantha Chang
Hunger

1999
Alfredo Véa
Gods Go Begging

2000
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier and Clay



2001
Paul LaFarge
Haussmann,
or the Distinction


2002

Roger King
A Girl from Zanzibar

2003
Tobias Wolff
Old School


2004
Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Short Fiction

2002
Daniel Coshnear
Jobs & Other Preoccupations: Stories


2003
Julie Orringer
How to Breathe Underwater: Stories


INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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





Nonfiction

1981
J.S. Holloway
And the World
Came Rushing In


1982
Diane Johnson
Terrorists and Novelists

1983
Bruno Bettelheim
Freud and Man's Soul

1984
Robert Hass
Twentieth Century Pleasures:
Prose on Poetry

Orville Schell
Modern Meat


1985
Paul Robinson
Opera and Ideas

Carolyn Wakeman
Yue Daiyun To the Storm


1986
Alex Zwerdling
Virginia Woolf
and the Real World

William Finnegan
Crossing the Line


1987
Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On

1988
Timothy Ferris
Coming of Age
in the Milky Way


1989
Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
Native American Architecture

Ronald Takaki
Strangers from a Different Shore


1990
Linda Neimann
Boomer: Railroad Memoirs

1991
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Anne Sexton, A Biography

Susan Faludi
Backlash:
The Undeclared War
Against American Women


1992
Susan Griffin
A Chorus of Stones

1993
Gerald Haslam, et al
The Central Valley,
California's Heartland

1994
Stewart Brand
How Buildings Learn

1995
Joe Kae
Savages

1996
Victor Davis Hanson
Fields Without Dreams

1997
Ted Gioia
The History of Jazz

1998
Adam Hochshild
King Leopold's Ghost:
A Story ofGreed, Terror,
and Heroism in Colonial Africa

1999
Freeman House
Totem Salmon:
Life Lessons From
Another Species

2000
June Jordan
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
 

2001
Robert M. Sapolsky
A Primate's Memoir


2002/Co-winner
Daniel Ellsberg
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam
and the Pentagon Papers

2002/Co-winner
Richard Rodriguez
Brown:
The Last Discovery of America


2003
Rebecca Solnit
River of Shadows:
Eadweard Muybridge and
the Technological Wild West

 

2004
Richard Steven Street
Beasts of the Field:
A Narrative History of
California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
&
Photographing Farmworkers
in California

 

2004
Richard Steven Street
Beasts of the Field:
A Narrative History of
California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
&
Photographing Farmworkers
in California

 
INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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





Poetry

1982

Thom Gunn
The Passages of Joy

1983

Jack Marshall
Arriving
on the Playing Fields
of Paradise


1984

Czeslaw Milosz
The Separate Notebooks

1985

August Kleinzahler
Storm Over Hackensack

1985

William Dickey
The King of the Golden River

1987

Edward Kleinschmidt
Magnetism

1988

Philip Levine
A Walk with Tom Jefferson

1989

Adrienne Rich
Time's Power

1990

Thomas Centolella
Terra Firma

1991

Czeslaw Milosz
Provinces: Poems 1987-1991

1992

Thom Gunn
T
he Man With Night Sweats

1993

Brenda Hillman
Bright Existence

1994

Jane Hirshfield
The October Palace

1995

Czeslaw Milosz
Facing the River

1996

William Dickey
The Education of Desire

1997

Diana O'Hehir
Spells For Not Dying Again

1998
Jacqueline Berger
The Mythologies of Danger

1999
Michael McClure
Touching the Edge

2000
Forrest Hamer
Middle Ear
2001
Jane Hirshfield
Given Sugar, Given Salt

2002
Jack Marshall
Gorgeous Chaos:
New & Selected Poems 1965--2001


2003
Suji Kwock Kim
Notes from the Divided Country


2004
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Americus I


2003
Suji Kwock Kim
Notes from the Divided Country


INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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





Children's Literature

1984

Mavis Jukes
Like Jake and Me

1985

Yoshiko Uchida
The Happiest Ending

1985

Yoshiko Uchida
The Happiest Ending

1987

Marilyn Sachs
Fran Ellen's House

1988

Beverly Cleary
A Girl From Yamhill:
A Memoir

1989

Esther Blanc
Berchick

1990

Ellen Kindt McKenzie
Stargone John

1991

Allen Say
Tree of Cranes

1992

Joe Cottonwood
Danny Ain't

1993

Allen Say
Grandfather's Journey

1994

Karen Cushman
Catherine Called Birdy

1995

Peggy Rathmann
Officer Buckle and Gloria

1996

Nancy Farmer
A Girl Named Disaster

1997

Ji-Li Jiang
Red Scarf Girl:
A Memoir of the
Cultural Revolution

1998
Elizabeth Partridge
Restless Spirit:
The Life and Work of
Dorothea Lange

1999
Karen English
Francie


2000
Judd Winick
Pedro and Me: Friendship,
Loss, And What I Learned


2001
An Na
A Step from Heaven

2002
Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion


2003
Peggy Rathmann
The Day the Babies Crawled Away


2004
Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Does My Shirts


2003
Peggy Rathmann
The Day the Babies Crawled Away


INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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





Translation

2003
Anne Milano Appel
Head Above Water
(Fuor d' Aqua)
by Stefano Bortolussi



2004
Willis Barnstone
Border of a Dream: Selected Poems
by Antonio Machado

Special Awards

1984
Publishing
Sierra Club Books

1985
Translation
Stephen Mitchell
Rainier Maria Rilke
Sonnets to Orpheus


1986
Translation
Stephen Mitchell
and Chana Bloch
Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poetry

1986
Translation
Czeslaw Milosz
and Robert Hass:

Czeslaw Milosz
Unattainable Earth

1986
Translation
Reginald Zeinick
S.I. Kanatchikov:
A Radical Worker
in Tsarist Russia


1987
Publishing
Medea Benjamin
and the IFPD

Don't Be Afraid, Gringo


1989
Publishing
Harriet Rohmer
Children's Book Press

1990
Publishing
William Turnbull
and Jack Shoemaker
North Point Press


1993
Translation
Jim Powell
Sappho: A Garland,
Poems and Fragments
of Sappho


1994
Publishing
Carl Thelander,
Malcolm Margolin,
Michael Cronan

Living on the Edge


1995
Translation
Zack Rogow
André Breton:
Earthlight
(co-translator)

1997
Publishing
Poetry Flash
A Poetry Review &
Literary Calendar for the West

1999
Poetry and Publishing
OVERTIME:
Selcted Poems

edited by
Michael Rothenberg
introduction by
Leslie Scalapino
Penguin


2000
Publishing
University of California Press

 

2001
Special Book Trade
Award
Valerie Walley
Random House
Book Representative

2001
Special Award
Distinguished Contribution to Literature & Culture
Czeslaw Milosz

 

2002
Special Award
Translation
Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas
by Arthur Schnitzler
translated by Margret Schaefer

 

2004
Special Award
The Poetry Center
& American Poetry Archives
San Francisco State University
In recognition of their
50th Anniversary


INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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





Fred Cody Awards

1984
Josephine Miles

1985
Robert Duncan

1986
Wright Morris

1988
Jessica Mitford

1987
M.F.K. Fisher

1989
Gary Snyder

1990
Alice Walker

1991
William Everson

1992
Kay Boyle

1993
Wallace Stegner

1994
Adrienne Rich

1995
Malcolm Margolin

1996
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti

1997
Robert Hass

1998
Maxine Hong
Kingston

1999
Ishmael Reed

2000
Carolyn Kizer
 

2001
Tillie Olsen

 

2002
Francisco X. Alarcón

 

2003
Ronald Takaki

 

2004
Philip Levine

 

2005
Orville Schell

 

2006
Diane di Prima

 

2004
Philip Levine


INDEX
Fiction: NovelsShort FictionNonfiction
PoetryChildren's LiteratureTranslation
Special AwardsFred Cody Award

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