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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Books Oregon Book Award Winners Announced
Posted by Alison Hallett on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:44 AM
The Oregon Book Awards were last night; I'm a little disappointed that Sarahlee Lawrence's River House didn't pick up the creative nonfiction award, but as I haven't read the book that did win—George Estreich's The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit—I suppose I can't complain too much. Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers won for best fiction, surprising no one; Joe Sacco justly took the first-ever graphic literature award for Footnotes in Gaza; and Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water took home the Readers Choice award. The complete list of winners is after the jump.
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego
Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii (Wendy Lamb Books)
LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Emily Whitman of Portland
Wildwing (Greenwillow Books)
FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Kenneth J. Ruoff of Portland
Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2600th Anniversary (Cornell University Press)
SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
George Estreich of Corvallis
The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit
(Southern Methodist University Press)
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Carl Adamshick of Portland
Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press)
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Patrick deWitt of Portland
The Sisters Brothers (Ecco)
PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART GRAPHIC LITERATURE AWARD
Joe Sacco of Portland
Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books)
READERS CHOICE AWARD
Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland
The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books)
WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Dr. Ulrich Hardt of Portland
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