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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

第5回(1984年)

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)

受賞者

6名
Jane Jacobs じぇーん じぇいこぶず Winner

A theory book that rethinks the relationship between economics and cities by arguing that cities generate wealth.

It revisits the structure of the economy from the city outward rather than from the nation inward.

272ページ
urban theoryeconomicssocial criticism
Milan Kundera みらん くんでら Winner

A novel that moves from Prague to London and follows interior lives shaped by love and political pressure.

Private love always sits in the same room as historical weight.

944ページ
Czech literaturelove storypolitics and the individual
Ernst Pawel あーんすと ぱゔぇる Winner

A biography of Kafka that presents intellectual work and the shadow of anxiety as intertwined forces in his life.

It traces the contours of tension and isolation behind the works.

466ページ
biographyKafkaliterary history
Robert Choate Darnton ろばーと だーとん Winner

An essay collection that reads popular culture and power relations through episodes from eighteenth-century France.

Small anecdotes reveal the deeper structure of society.

320ページ
cultural historyFrench historyessays
Charles Olson ちゃーるず おるそん Winner

A landmark edition collecting Charles Olson’s long poem and securing its place in American poetry.

A definitive edition that invites a fresh reading of the poem as a whole.

660ページ
long poemAmerican poetrydefinitive edition
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood くりすとふぁー いしゃーうっど Winner

A novel rendered in fragments, portraying people adrift in Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic.

The city’s glitter and collapse share the same streets.

272ページ
BerlinWeimar Republicurban fiction