The Los Angeles Times named their Book Prizes winners on Friday, April 17, to launch their weekend long Festival of Books. This year’s awards featured 61 finalists competing across 13 different categories. Here’s who took home the 46th annual prizes in each category.
- Achievement in Audiobook Production (presented by Audible): The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans, with the award going to the production team of Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Steve West, Jim Seybert (narrators) and Kelly Gildea (producer).
- Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Ibis: A Novel by Justin Haynes
- Biography: The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun
- Current Interest: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Gladstone
- Fiction: Palaver: A Novel by Bryan Washington
- Graphic Novel/Comics: Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection by Jaime Hernandez
- History: Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of an American City by Bench Ansfield
- Mystery/Thriller: El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
- Poetry: A Magnificent Loneliness by Allison Benis White
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction: Luminous: A Novel by Silvia Park
- Science and Technology: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
- Young Adult Literature: Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen
In addition to the above prizes, Amy Tan received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. We Need Diverse Books took home the Innovator’s Award, which honors efforts that help bring storytelling into the future, and the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose went to Adam Ross for his book Playworld. Those were all announced prior to the ceremony on Friday.
You can learn more about the L.A. Times Book Prizes on their website.
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