Here are the winners of this year’s LA Times Book Prizes.
This marks the 42nd year of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which are “dedicated to discovering new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing across the spectrum of book publishing” and were awarded at a ceremony Friday at the University of Southern California.
In addition to celebrating the books below, the ceremony honored Luis J. Rodriguez with the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and Reginald Dwayne Betts with the Innovator’s Award for his advocacy work with incarcerated writers. You can watch the full ceremony here.
Congratulations to the winners!
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Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Jackie Polzin, Brood: A Novel
(Doubleday)
Biography
Paul Auster, Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
(Henry Holt & Company)
Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
Deborah Levy, Real Estate: A Living Autobiography
(Bloomsbury)
Current Interest
Adam Schiff, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
(Random House)
Fiction
Véronique Tadjo, In the Company of Men
(Other Press)
Graphic Novel/Comics
R. Kikuo Johnson, No One Else
(Fantagraphics)
History
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History
(Scribner)
Mystery/Thriller
Megan Abbott, The Turnout: A Novel
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Poetry
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
(Graywolf Press)
Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
Zen Cho, Spirits Abroad: Stories
(Small Beer Press)
Science & Technology
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
(Bold Type Books)
Young Adult Literature
Rita Williams-Garcia, A Sitting in St. James
(Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins Children’s Books)
