The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicked off its weekend-long celebration of ideas, creativity and the written word with the 34th Annual Book Prizes.
2013 Book Prize Winners
Biography: Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator (Simon & Schuster)
Current Interest: Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)
Fiction: Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books)
Graphic Novel/Comics: Ulli Lust, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (Fantagraphics)
History: Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (HarperCollins)
Mystery/Thriller: J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Company)
Poetry: Ron Padgett, Collected Poems (Coffee House Press)
Science & Technology: Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? (Little, Brown & Company)
Young Adult Literature: Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints (First Second/Macmillan)
Innovator’s Award: John Green
Robert Kirsch Award: Susan Straight
The complete list of 2013 finalists and previous winners, as well as eligibility and judging information, can be found at latimes.com/bookprizes.
