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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 20 (1999)

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

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Elizabeth Strout えりざべす・すとらうと Winner

With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter.

With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the lov…

303 pages
familypubertysecret
Judith Thurman じゅでぃす・さーまん Winner

A comprehensive biography that depicts the tension between creativity and private life as a female writer through the life and works of French writer Colette.

A comprehensive biography that depicts the tension between creativity and private life as a female writer through the li…

biographyfrench literaturefemale writer
Mitchell Duneier みっちぇる・でゅねいやー Winner

"In Sidewalk, Mitchell Duneier takes us back to the streets of the Village, but finds a scene very different from the one Jacobs described.

"In Sidewalk, Mitchell Duneier takes us back to the streets of the Village, but finds a scene very different from the on…

320 pages
urban sociologyfield workphotos and reportage
Ovie Carter おーゔぃー・かーたー Winner

"In Sidewalk, Mitchell Duneier takes us back to the streets of the Village, but finds a scene very different from the one Jacobs described.

"In Sidewalk, Mitchell Duneier takes us back to the streets of the Village, but finds a scene very different from the on…

320 pages
photographCityvisual record
Amit Chaudhuri あみっと・ちゃうどゅり Winner

A collection of multiple novels. Explore themes of freedom and change through stories that intertwine personal and social history.

A collection of multiple novels. Explore themes of freedom and change through stories that intertwine personal and socia…

collection of novelspersonal historysocial change
John W. Dower じょん・だぶりゅー・だうあー Winner

A comprehensive historical study that depicts post-World War II Japanese society based on a wide range of historical sources and details political, economic, and cultural changes during the occupation.

A comprehensive historical study that depicts post-World War II Japanese society based on a wide range of historical sou…

688 pages
Postwar historyJapanese historyoccupation period
C. K. Williams しー・けー・うぃりあむず Winner

A collection of poems with themes of restoration and regeneration. A collection of works that express personal grief and universal rebirth in poetic language.

A collection of poems with themes of restoration and regeneration. A collection of works that express personal grief and…

poemreproductionpersonal loss
Dava Sobel だゔぁ・そべる Winner

A historical essay that intertwines stories of science, faith, and family, based on the correspondence and relationship between Galileo and his daughter Maria Celesta. It brings out the human side of scientists.

A historical essay that intertwines stories of science, faith, and family, based on the correspondence and relationship…

history of sciencegalileofaith and science
Robert Edmund Cormier ろばーと・こーみあ Winner

Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder "what I was doing here on the planet Earth.

Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder "what I was doing here on the pla…

128 pages
young adultgrowthfriendship
Ursula K. Le Guin あーしゅら・けー・る・ぐうぃん Winner