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On April 28th, The Los Angeles Times named the winners of its annual Book
Prizes. Established in 1980, these awards recognize outstanding literary achievements in
nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry,
science and technology, and young adult fiction. There is also a prize for debut authors,
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, which honors the work of the late Times
book editor and Book Prize program founder. The Los Angeles Times also gave its
Robert Kirsch Award to poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Kirsch
Award is presented yearly to a living author whose focus is the American West. The award
is named after the late Robert Kirsch --- novelist, editor, teacher, and one of the
nation's foremost book critics --- who served as The Times' book critic for more
than 25 years prior to his death in 1980.
And the winners are:
Fiction
 ASSORTED FIRE EVENTS: Stories
by David Means
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
 THE ROMANTICS: A Novel
by Pankaj Mishra
Mystery/Thriller
 A PLACE OF EXECUTION
by Val McDermid
Biography
 JEFFERSON DAVIS, AMERICAN
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Current Interest
 WAY OUT THERE IN BLUE: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
by Frances FitzGerald
History
 THE COLLABORATOR: The Trial and Execution of Robert
Brasillach
by Alice Kaplan
Poetry
 THE THRONE OF LABDACUS
by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Science and Technology
 THE RISE AND FALL OF MODERN MEDICINE
by James Le Fanu, M. D.
Young Adult Fiction
 MIRACLE'S BOYS
by Jacqueline Woodson
--- Compiled by Lillian Newley
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