25th Annual
Northern California Book Awards
for books published in 2005 by Northern California authors

29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010 (for books published in 2009)

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award

Fiction Their Magician and Other Stories by Gloria Kurian Broder Other Press Winners by Eric B. Martin MacAdam/Cage Crashing America by Katia Noyes Alyson Books Europe Central by William T. Vollmann Viking 2006 NCBA Winner! TOP

Poetry The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi Persea Books Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover Omnidawn Corruption by Camille Norton Harper Perennial Company of Moths by Michael Palmer New Directions The Niagara River by Kay Ryan Grove Press Here, Bullet by Brian Turner Alice James Books 2006 NCBA Winner! TOP

Nonfiction The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself by Philip L. Fradkin University of California Press Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Houghton Mifflin 2006 NCBA Winner! Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers by Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, Byron G. Wolfe Trinity University Press Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment by Jacques Leslie Farrar, Straus and Giroux 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel Jane Smiley Alfred A. Knopf TOP

Children's Literature Moony Luna/Luna, Lunita Lunera by Jorge Argueta illustrated by Elizabeth Gomez Children's Book Press The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books 2006 NCBA Winner! Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell Atheneum Zoopa: An Animal Alphabet by Gianna Marino Chronicle Books John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge Viking Juvenile TOP

Translation Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays, and Poems edited & translated by John Balcom Columbia University Press 2006 NCBA Winner! Married to the Demon King by Sri Daoruang translated by Susan Kepner Silkworm Books distributed by University of Washington Press Ten Thousand Lives by Ko Un translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Young-moo Kim & Gary G. Gach Green Integer Lilus Kikus and Other Stories byElena Poniatowska translated by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez University of New Mexico Press This award is a collaboration with: The Center for Art in Translation, PEN West Translation Committee, and the NCBR TOP

Special Recognition Award Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan Foreword by Adrienne Rich Edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles Copper Canyon Press

Fred Cody Award For Lifetime Achievement Community & Literature Poet, Author, Teacher & Activist Diane di Prima

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29th Northern California Book Awards, April 18, 2010
(for books published in 2009)

Special Recognition Award • Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award