Join us for the 29th Annual Northern California Book Awards. The Awards begin at 1 p.m.
The awards honor the work of Northern California authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation and Children's Literature. The featured speaker is Cody Award winner Nancy J. Peters, co-owner and former publisher of City Lights Books. A book sale by Book Bay follows the event. For more information on the awards visit www.poetryflash.org or 510/525-5476.
Nominated Titles:
FICTION
- The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories, Catherine Brady, University of Nevada Press
- Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, Anne Finger, Bison Books
- The Servants' Quarters, Lynn Freed, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- The Southern Cross, Skip Horack, Mariner Books
- Elegy for a Fabulous World, Alta Ifland, Ninebark Press
- The Vagrants, Yiyun Li, Random House
GENERAL NONFICTION
- Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary, Public Affairs
- Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, Alva Noë, Hill and Wang
- Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Bertrand M. Patenaude, Harper
- Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, Carol Sklenicka, Scribner
- Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal, with a Selection of Her Poems, Kathleen Weaver, Pennsylvania State University Press
CREATIVE NONFICTION
- Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, Novella Carpenter, The Penguin Press
- Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, Michael Chabon, Harper
- My Father's Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, Sharon Doubiago, Wild Ocean Press
- Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, McSweeney's
- Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth, Mark Sloan, M.D., Ballantine Books
POETRY
- Lucifer at the Starlite, Kim Addonizio, W.W. Norton
- The Mansion of Happiness, Robin Ekiss, VQR Poetry Series/University of Georgia Press
- Practical Water, Brenda Hillman, Wesleyan
- Chronic, D.A. Powell, Graywolf Press
- Of This World: New and Selected Poems, Joseph Stroud, Copper Canyon Press
TRANSLATION
Fiction
- Translation by John Balcom, There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian, from Chinese, Columbia University Press
- Translation by Jeanette K. Ringold, A Leap, by Anna Enquist, from Dutch, The Toby Press
- Translation by Matthew B. Smith, Running Away, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, from French, Dalkey Archive Press
Poetry
- Translation by Brother Anthony of Taize, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach, Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1960-2002, by Ko Un, from Korean, Green Integer
- Translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, from Hebrew, W.W. Norton
- Translation by Stephen Kessler, Desolation of the Chimera, by Luis Cernuda, from Spanish, White Pine Press
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree, Betsy Franco, illustrator Shino Arihara,Tricycle Press
- Night Lights, Susan Gal, Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Mother Goose in California, Doug Hansen, author/illustrator, Heyday Books
- Hold Still, Nina LaCour, Dutton Juvenile
- Ash, Malinda Lo, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry,
edited by Camille T. Dungy, University of Georgia Press
The Northern California Book Awards are co-presented by the Center for the Art of Translation, Poetry Flash, and the Northern California Book Reviewers
