31st Annual Presentation
The 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2010
The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday, April 29, 2011, in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building.
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
Biography
Winner
- Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House)
Current Interest
Winner
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)
Fiction
Winner
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Winner
- Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Graphic Novel
Winner
- Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books)
History
Winner
- Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
Mystery / Thriller
Winner
- Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
Poetry
Winner
- Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company)
Science & Technology
Winner
- Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)
Young Adult Literature
Winner
- Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
2010 Robert Kirsch Award
Robert Kirsch, whose idea became the inspiration for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, was the newspaper’s book critic from 1952 until his death in 1980. In addition to writing criticism, Kirsch was a novelist, editor and teacher.
Winner
Without Beverly Cleary, writing for children would not be the same. That’s no overstatement, just plain fact. Indeed, with the publication of her first novel for middle readers, “Henry Huggins,” in 1950, Cleary became a revolutionary figure, a writer with a clear-cut, but radical agenda: to write directly and movingly for kids. (Click here to read more)
2010 Innovator’s Award
The Innovator’s Award recognizes the people and institutions that are doing cutting edge work to bring books, publishing and storytelling into the future, whether in terms of new business models, new technologies or new applications of narrative art.
Winner
What does it mean to be an innovator? To create something new? Or to see the possibilities inherent in a pre-existing model and to evolve and adapt? By either standard, Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, has been an innovator all along.
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