'L.A. Times' Announces Book Prize Finalists, Honorees

Feb 23, 2022

The Los Angeles Times has announced finalists and honorees for its 42nd annual Book Prizes. Luis J. Rodriguez will be honored with the 2021 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, Reginald Dwayne Betts and his work with Freedom Reads will receive the 2021 Innovator’s Award, and Deborah Levy will be presented with the 2021 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose for her memoir Real Estate: A Living Autobiography. 

The Book Prizes comprise twelve categories: autobiographical prose (the Christopher Isherwood Prize), biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award), graphic novel/comics, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science fiction (the Ray Bradbury Prize), science and technology, and young adult literature. Judging panels of writers who specialize in each genre select finalists and winners.

This year's nominees include The Turnout by Megan Abbot, Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove, Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris, My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Stone Fruit by Lee Lai, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, ​I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins, and Harrow by Joy Williams. 

The complete list of finalists and further information, including past winners, is available can be found here. Winners will be announced during the Book Prizes ceremony on April 22 prior to the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will take place on the USC campus on on April 23-24.

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