Women’s National Book Association – San Francisco Chapter’s President Kate Farrell says:
33rd Annual
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS
celebrating books published in 2013 by Northern California authors
Sunday, April 27, 2014
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
1:00–2:30 pm: Awards Ceremony featuring readings & remarks by the award-winning authors
2:30–4:00 pm: Book signing & Reception follows in the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room
Awards and reception free and open to the public; nominated books on sale by Readers Bookstore
FRED CODY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Adam Hochschild, Berkeley author, journalist, historian
NCBR RECOGNITION AWARD
City Arts & Lectures
FICTION
At Night We Walk in Circles, Daniel Alarcon
Sorrow, Catherine Gammon
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Andrew Sean Greer
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, Peter Orner
POETRY
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, Brenda Hillman
Black Crow Dress, Roxane Beth Johnson
Spiral Trace, Jack Marshall
The Palace of Contemplating Departure, Brynn Saito
Here Come the Warm Jets, Alli Warren
TRANSLATION
Fiction
The Mongolian Conspiracy, by Rafael Bernal, translated by Katherine Silver from the Spanish
The Mehlis Report, by Rabee Jaber, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid from the Arabic
The Art of Joy, by Goliarda Sapienza, translated by Anne Milano Appel from the Italian
Poetry
Poems of Consummation, by Vicente Aleixandre, translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler
Colonies, Tomasz Rozycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal
Landscape with Yellow Birds, by José Ángel Valente, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Christensen
GENERAL NONFICTION
Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History Between the Tides, Matthew Morse Booker
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser
Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage, Susan Shillinglaw
An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life, Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Anchee Min, The Cooked Seed
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani, Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Radical Change at Glide
Gordon Young, Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Younger Readers
Marissa Moss, Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome
Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett, pictures by Matthew Myers, Battle Bunny
Lemony Snicket, illustrator Jon Klassen, The Dark
Young Adult
Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Freakboy
Katherine Longshore, Tarnish
Annemarie O’Brien, Lara’s Gift
The Northern California Book Awards are presented and sponsored by Northern California Book Reviewers; Poetry Flash; Center for the Art of Translation; Red Room (redroom.com); PEN West; Mechanics’ Institute; Women’s National Book Association, SF Chapter; San Francisco Public Library; Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and Readers Bookstore at the Main.
For more information: Poetryflash.org, 510.525.5476, NCBR@
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