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Congratulations to the winners of the
2011 Oregon Book Awards!
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the winners of and special awards recipients
for the 24th annual Oregon Book Awards.
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KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Judge: Lydia Millet Willy Vlautin of Portland Lean on Pete (Harper Perennial)
Willy Vlautin was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. It was Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published three novels: The Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete. He currently resides in Scappoose, Oregon.
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STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY Judge: Robert Pinsky David Biespiel of Portland The Book of Men and Women (University of Washington Press)
David Biespiel is the author of The Book of Men and Women, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Wild Civility, Shattering Air and other books. He is the founding director of the Attic Institute and a regular contributor of poetry and prose to Poetry magazine and political opinion to Politico.
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FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION Judge: Greg Grandin Paul VanDevelder of Corvallis Savages and Scoundrels (Yale University Press)
Paul VanDevelder writes for Audubon, Esquire, National Geographic Traveler and American History, and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times. His new book, Savages and Scoundrels, is currently being made into a documentary for PBS by filmmaker Chris Eyre.
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SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION Judge: Kyoko Mori John Daniel of Elmira The Far Corner (Counterpoint Press)
John Daniel is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, including Common Ground, The Trail Home, Looking After, and Rogue River Journal. He lives in the Coast Range foothills north of Noti, Oregon, where he is working on a novel.
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ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Judge: Kathi Appelt
Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego
Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix (Wendy Lamb Books)
Graham Salisbury's books include Blue Skin of the Sea, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Lord of the Deep, Eyes of the Emperor, House of the Red Fish, Night of the Howling Dogs and Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet. Visit him at www.grahamsalisbury.com.
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LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Judge: Kathi Appelt
Scott William Carter of Salem
The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys (Simon and Schuster)
Scott William Carter's first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut. "His second novel, a fantasy called Wooden Bones, chronicling the untold story of Pinocchio, is due out in 2012. He lives in Salem with his wife and two children. Visit him online at www.scottwilliamcarter.com.
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ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
Judge: Paula Cizmar
Susan Mach of Portland
The Lost Boy
Susan Mach's plays have been produced by Theatre for the New City in Manhattan, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Portland Repertory Theatre, and Icarus Theatre Ensemble. She teaches writing and literature at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon.
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READERS' CHOICE AWARD
Willy Vlautin of Portland
Lean on Pete (Harper Perennial)
Sponsored by The Oregonian. Over 4,000 Oregonians voted for the first Readers' Choice Award. Voting took place on OregonLive.com from January through April, and the winner was independently tabulated by The Oregonian.
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Special Awards
STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
John Laursen of Portland
John Laursen is a designer, typographer, writer, editor and publisher. He is co-author, with the late Terry Toedtemeier, of Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957. For four decades, Laursen has been owner and operator of Press-22, a Portland studio specializing in the design and production of high-quality books and text-based public art projects. He is also co-founder and director of the Northwest Photography Archive. His typographic design can be found at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial, the Walk of the Heroines at PSU, Hazel Hall Park, the Oregon Convention Center and the Mount Tabor entryway. He has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations focused on the arts, education, history and the environment, including the Portland Art Museum, Oregon State University Press, the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, Reed College, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the Oregon Historical Society Press and the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
The Children's Book Bank of Portland
The Children's Book Bank is a nonprofit organization located in Portland. They strive to improve the literacy skills of low-income children by giving them books of their own before they reach kindergarten. The Children's Book Bank collects, repairs and packages used books and distributes them to families free of charge. The Book Bank project allows families who are financially challenged to significantly increase their children's exposure to books at home. The Children's Book Bank also administers the Leading for Reading program, an internship program for high school students. Upon completion of the program, each high school student has led a group of volunteers, organized a book drive in their own community, and planned and run a grassroots fundraising event.
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The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature.
The Oregon Book Awards are sponsored by: Oregon Arts Commission, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by Brian & Gwyneth Booth, Nancy & Roderick Boutin, Betty Bradshaw, Leslie Bradshaw Endowment, The Collins Foundation, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Rocky & Julie Dixon, Gray Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, Robert & Cecelia Huntington, Irving Street Kitchen, Mancini Family, Anne Mendel & Mark Henry, Walt Morey Endowment, Multnomah County Library, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Center for the Book at the Oregon State Library, Oregon Writers' Endowment, The Oregonian, Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art, Halle & Rick Sadle, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, and many individual donors.
The Oregon Book Awards is a program of Literary Arts.
Oregonians are passionate about books. And ideas, and great writing. Literary Arts shares this passion. Our mission is to engage readers, support writers and inspire the next generation with great literature. The programs of Literary Arts include: Writers in the Schools, Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures and Delve: Readers' Seminars.
For more information about the programs of Literary Arts please contact us at 503.227.2583 or visit Literary-Arts.org.
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