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Congratulations to the winners of the
2010 Oregon Book Awards!
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the winners of and special awards recipients for the
23rd annual Oregon Book Awards.
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Ken Kesey Award For Fiction
Judge: Robert Olmstead
Jon
Raymond of
Portland
Livability: Stories (Bloomsbury)
Jon Raymond is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of The Half-Life, a novel, and Livability, a collection of stories, two of which have been made into the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. He is an editor at Plazm magazine, a former associate editor at Tin House magazine, and his writing has appeared in Bookforum, Artforum, the Village Voice and other publications.
Stafford/Hall Award For Poetry
Judge: Matthea Harvey
Matthew
Dickman of Portland
All-American Poem (American Poetry Review)
Matthew Dickman was raised in the Lent's neighborhood of Portland. All-American Poem received the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, a 2008 May Sarton Poetry prize from The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2010 Kate Tufts Award from the Graduate College at Claremont University. His work has been published in Tin House, The Boston Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives and works in Portland.
Frances Fuller Victor Award For General Nonfiction
Judge: Luis Urrea
Tracy
Daugherty of Corvallis
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (St.Martin's Press)
Tracy Daugherty is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He is the author of four novels, three short story collections, a book of personal essays, and Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme. Three of his previous books have been honored with Oregon Book Awards. A new short story collection, One Day the Wind Changed, will appear this spring, and he is now at work on a biography of Joseph Heller.
Sarah Winnemucca Award For Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Ted Conover
John
Kroger of Salem
Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers,
Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux)
John Kroger is the Attorney General of Oregon. Prior to being elected in 2008, he had earlier served in the Marine Corps, was a federal prosecutor in New York, and most recently was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland. Convictions is his first book.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award For Children's Literature
Judge: Sarah Weeks
Deborah
Hopkinson of West
Linn
Keep On!The Story of Matthew Henson,
Co-discoverer of the North Pole (Peach Tree)
Deborah Hopkinson is a three-time Oregon Book Award finalist. She writes picture books, novels, and nonfiction. Apples to Oregon was a feature selection of Oregon Reads. Her new books are Stagecoach Sal and Michelle. Deborah lives in West Linn and serves as Vice President for Advancement at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Leslie Bradshow Award For Young Adult Literature
Judge: Sarah Weeks
Roland
Smith of Wilsonville
I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall (Harcourt Paperbacks)
Roland Smith is the author of over 25 award winning books for young people including Cryptid Hunters, Tentacles, Peak, Elephant Run, Zach's Lie and I.Q. Independence Hall. He and his wife, Marie, who is also an author, live on a small farm in Wilsonville.
Special Awards
The Stewart H. Holbrook Leterary Legacy Award
Matt Love of Newport
Matt Love is the founder and publisher of Nestucca Spit Press, an independent press on the Oregon Coast that exclusively publishes books about Oregon. He has published several hundred Oregon writers in his anthologies, and arranged reading tours throughout the state. In 2010, he published, Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's Sesquicentennial Anthology which contained 63 original essays by Oregon authors, and 61 excerpts from primary documents related to Oregon history. He is also a regular contributor to the Oregonian's ongoing Lost Northwest Books series. He is currently writing a book about the filming of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, which took place in Lincoln County in 1970.
The Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award
The Dove Lewis Animal Assisted Therapy Program: Read to the Dogs Program of Portland
The Read to the Dogs Program is sponsored by trained volunteers from Dove Lewis Animal Assisted Therapy & Education program. Read to the Dogs pairs young readers with trained therapy dogs and their handlers. The program was started in 2001 and currently serve 46 locations in the Portland area, including public libraries, schools, boy and girls clubs, and low income housing units.
The Oregon Book Awards are supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Oregon Book Awards is a program of Literary Arts. Literary Arts is a statewide, nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. For more information about the programs of Literary Arts please contact us at 503.227.2583 or visit Literary-Arts.orgWritingResource.org
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