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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 6 (1985)

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

10 people
Robert N. Bellah ろばーと えぬ べら Winner

A collaborative social-science study of American individualism and the fraying of community in the 1980s.

The habits that shape a culture also shape its civic life.

355 pages
sociologyAmerican societyindividualismcommunitydemocracy
Richard Madsen りちゃーど まっどせん Winner

A collaborative social-science study of American individualism and the fraying of community in the 1980s.

The habits that shape a culture also shape its civic life.

355 pages
sociologyAmerican societyindividualismcommunitydemocracy
William M Sullivan うぃりあむ えむ さりゔぁん Winner

A collaborative social-science study of American individualism and the fraying of community in the 1980s.

The habits that shape a culture also shape its civic life.

355 pages
sociologyAmerican societyindividualismcommunitydemocracy
Ann Swidler あん すわいどらー Winner

A collaborative social-science study of American individualism and the fraying of community in the 1980s.

The habits that shape a culture also shape its civic life.

355 pages
sociologyAmerican societyindividualismcommunitydemocracy
Steven M Tipton すてぃーぶん えむ てぃぷとん Winner

A collaborative social-science study of American individualism and the fraying of community in the 1980s.

The habits that shape a culture also shape its civic life.

355 pages
sociologyAmerican societyindividualismcommunitydemocracy
Louise Erdrich るいーず あーどりっち Winner

A novel of Ojibwe family life in North Dakota, told through shifting voices and fractured memory.

Fragments of family history accumulate into a shared place.

283 pages
Native American literaturefamilymemorycommunitynovel
Michael Scammell まいける すかめる Winner

Michael Scammell’s biography traces Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s life and writing through exile, repression, and political conflict at the center of twentieth-century Russian literature.

It follows the exiled writer’s life from both literary and political angles.

1051 pages
biographySoviet historyexileliterature and politicsdissent
Evan S. Connell えゔぁん えす こーねる Winner

A historical account of Custer and the Little Bighorn, blending battlefield history with Plains Indian history.

The memory of the battlefield opens out into the layered history of the American West.

441 pages
historyAmerican Westmilitary historyIndigenous historynonfiction
X. J. Kennedy えっくす じぇー けねでぃ Winner

A selected-poems volume by X. J. Kennedy that turns wit, form, and everyday observation into sharp lyric comedy.

Everyday absurdity becomes poetry through exacting craft.

168 pages
poetryhumorformal verseAmerican poetryselected poems
Janet Lewis じゃねっと るいす Winner

The Cervantes Prize honors a lifetime contribution to Spanish-language literature, so this entry does not correspond to a standalone book.

The prize recognizes a body of work rather than a single title.

lifetime achievementSpanish-language literatureliterary award