2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
The Robert Kirsch Award:
Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography:
"Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Current Interest:
"Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point" by Elizabeth D. Samet
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fiction:
"Be Near Me" by Andrew O'Hagan
(Harcourt)
History:
"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
(Doubleday)
Mystery/Thriller:
"The Indian Bride" by Karin Fossum (Translated by Charlotte Barslund)
(Harcourt)
Poems:
"Old Heart: Poems" by Stanley Plumly
(W.W. Norton)
Science and Technology:
"I Am A Strange Loop" by
Douglas Hofstadter
(Basic Books)
Young Adult Fiction:
"A Darkling Plain" (The Hungry City Chronicles) by Philip Reeve
(Eos Books/HarperCollins)
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction:
"The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" by Dinaw Mengestu
(Riverhead Books)
Source:
The Los Angeles Times.
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