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Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう

Edition 1 (1980)

BiographyCurrent interestFictionArt Seidenbaum Award for First FictionHistoryMystery/ThrillerPoetryScience and TechnologyYoung Adult NovelGraphic Novel/ComicsRay Bradbury Prize (SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction)Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseInnovator's AwardRobert Kirsch AwardAchievement in Audiobook Production (established 2023, presented by Audible)

Winners

5 people
Harrison Evans Salisbury はりそん さりずべりー Winner

Non-fiction with themes of journalistic independence and ethics, and the relationship between power and the media. Examining the role of the press in democracy and its limits through specific reporting cases.

Non-fiction with themes of journalistic independence and ethics, and the relationship between power and the media. Exami…

630 pages
media theoryjournalismpolitics
Walker Percy うぉーかー ぱーしー Winner

Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in God--together heal one another and return to a Christian community that rejects their methods of healing.

Widower Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, and Allison Vaught--two alienated souls both questioning their faith in…

328 pages
religionontologysouthern literature
Ronald Lewis Steel ろなるど すてぃーる Winner

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book.

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book.

669 pages
biographymodern american historymedia and politics
Robert Kelly ろばーと けりー Winner

A collection of poems that explores the themes of language, the individual, and social tensions. Contains a collection of works that explore contemporary issues and the expressive possibilities of poetry, ranging from short poems to long poems.

A collection of poems that explores the themes of language, the individual, and social tensions. Contains a collection o…

modern poetrylanguageindividual and society
Wallace Earle Stegner うぉれす すてぐなー Winner

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.

576 pages
western literaturefamily historyhistory