2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
The Robert Kirsch Award:
Joan Didion
Biography:
"Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954" by Hilary Spurling
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Current Interest:
"Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" by Anthony Shadid
(Henry Holt)
Fiction:
"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Edith Grossman,
Translator)
(Alfred A. Knopf)
History:
"Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves" by Adam Hochschild
(Houghton Mifflin)
Mystery/Thriller:
"Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation" by Robert Littell
(Overlook Press)
Poems:
"Refusing Heaven: Poems" by Jack Gilbert
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Science and Technology:
"Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima" by
Diana Preston
(Walker & Company)
Young Adult Fiction:
"You & You & You" by Per Nilsson
(Front Street/Boyds Mills Press)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction:
"Beasts of No Nation: A Novel" by Uzodinma Iweala
(HarperCollins)
Source:
The Los Angeles Times.
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