On Sunday, the Northern California Book Awards were held in the Koret Auditorium at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. This was the 30th annual awards ceremony honoring books published by Northern Californian authors, translators, and poets. We tip our caps to the deserving winners.
Poetry in translationMaribor
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated from Greek
by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis
Post-Apollo Press
Fiction in translationA Thousand Peaceful Cities
Jerzy Pilch
Translated from Polish
by David Frick
Open Letter Books
Children's literatureThe Haunting of Charles Dickens
Lewis Buzbee
Feiwel and Friends
Creative non-fictionInfinite City:
A San Francisco Atlas
Rebecca Solnit
University of California Press
General non-fictionWinner-Take-All Politics:
How Washington Made the Rich Richer
—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
Simon & Schuster
PoetrySuck on the Marrow
Camille T. Dungy
Red Hen Press
FictionIvan and Misha, stories
Michael Alenyikov
TriQuarterly Books
(Clicking on each cover will bring you to the book's page on our website.)