Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
Edition 27 (2006)
Winners
10 peopleThe 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction went to Alice Greenway's White Ghost Girls.
A debut novel shaped by postwar Hong Kong and fractured memory.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography recognized Neal Gabler's Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.
A biography of Walt Disney and the creation of his cultural empire.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam.
A study of Theo van Gogh's murder and the strains of multicultural tolerance.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction went to Abraham B. Yehoshua's A Woman in Jerusalem.
A novel of grief, distance, and urban routine.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Translation recognized Hillel Halkin's English translation of Abraham B. Yehoshua's A Woman in Jerusalem.
An English translation that carries the novel's emotional and political tensions.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest went to Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower.
A deeply reported history of al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller went to Michael Connelly's Echo Park.
A Los Angeles police novel about a cold case and a city under pressure.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry went to Frederick Seidel's Ooga-Booga.
A sharp, often darkly playful collection of poems.
The 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction went to Coe Booth's Tyrell.
A Brooklyn teen tries to hold family life together under pressure.