Pratchett's ‘Nation' Wins 2008 LA Times Book Prize
RSSBy SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 04/26/2009
Terry Pratchett’s Nation (HarperCollins, 2008), about characters on a desert island who recreate civilization, is winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of young adult literature.
Pratchett, whose book Nation was bumped on April 16 from School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’Books competition, beat four other LA Times Book Prize finalists: Candace Fleming for The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Random, 2008); Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins, 2008); Oscar Hijuelos for Dark Dude (Atheneum); and Nate Powell for Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf Productions).
The 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded Friday at 8 pm PST on April 24, 2009 during a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building.
Other winners include:
Biography
Paula J. Giddings for Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Current Interest
Barton Gellman for Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (The Penguin Press)
Fiction
Marilynne Robinson for Home (Farrar, Straus)
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Zoë Ferraris for Finding Nouf (Houghto)
History
Mark Mazower for Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (The Penguin Press)
Mystery/Thriller
Michael Koryta for Envy the Night (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur)
Poetry
Frank Bidart for Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus)
Science and Technology
Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Little, Brown and Co.)
Here is a complete list of winners and finalists.
