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News & ArtsTuesday, September 22, 2009
Books There Is Such a Thing as the Washington State Book Awards?
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Yes! Yes there is! And the winners of this year's Washington State Book Awards are as follows:
“All About Lulu” by Jonathan Evison, of Bainbridge Island (Soft Skull Press)
“A Map of the Night” by David Wagoner, of Edmonds (University of Illinois Press)
“Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces” by Robert Clark, of Wallingford (Doubleday)
“S’abadeb: The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Arts and Artists,” edited by Barbara Brotherton, of Maple Leaf (Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press)
“What to Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!” by Barbara Kerley, of McKinleyville, Calif., and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, of Ballard
“Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster in the Antarctic, 1910-13” by Richard Farr, of Capitol Hill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
I am not generally a fan of the Washington State Book Awards—they've gone to some real mediocre authors in the past—but any award that sends more readers toward Jonathan Evison—All About Lulu is a great, early John Irving-y first novel—and the marvelous poet David Wagoner is a good thing. All the winners get a thousand bucks each. There will be a free celebration of the awards on October 14th at 7 pm at the Central Library.
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