
Isabel Allende
41st Annual NCBA: Isabel Allende, ZYZZYVA, more
11 SEPTEMBER 2022 — sunday
41st Annual Northern California Book Awards, honoring the published works and authors of Northern California, as well as California translators state-wide. FRED CODY AWARD: Isabel Allende, accepting by video. RECOGNITION and GROUNDBREAKER AWARDS to ZYZZYVA literary journal and Mule Kick Blues, Michael McClure, edited by Garrett Caples; Nominees: POETRY: Derrick Austin (Tenderness), Ari Banias (A Symmetry), Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain), Benjamin Gucciardi (West Portal), Amanda Moore (Requeening), Erin Rodoni (And if the Woods Carry You); FICTION: Chang-rae Lee (My Year Abroad), Tom Lin (The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu), Keenan Norris (The Confession of Copeland Cane), Claire Oshetsky (Chouette), and Shruti Swamy (The Archer); CREATIVE NONFICTION: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell (Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It), Joan Steinau Lester (Loving before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White), Joshua Mohr (Model Citizen), Shugri Said Salh (The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert), and Liz Tichenor (The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief); GENERAL NONFICTION: Cynthia L. Haven (Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life), Michael Lewis (The Premonition: A Pandemic Story), Michael Pollan (This Is Your Mind on Plants), Rebecca Solnit (Orwell's Roses), and David Talbot and Margaret Talbot (By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution); CALIFORNIA TRANSLATION IN POETRY: Maria Baranda, edited and partially translated by Paul Hoover (The New World Written: Selected Poems), Shang Qin, translated by John Balcom (The All-Seeing Eye: Collected Poems by Shang Qin(), and Blanca Varela, translated by Lisa Allen Ortiz and Sara Daniele Rivera (The Blinding Star); CALIFORNIA TRANSLATION IN PROSE: Beatriz Bracher, translated by Adam Morris (Antonio), Wendy Guerra, translated by Achy Obejas (I Was Never the First Lady), and José Emilio Pacheco, translated by Katherine Silver (Battles in the Desert); CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, YOUNGER READERS: Mac Barnett (What Is Love?), Mitali Perkins (Home Is in Between), and Elizabeth Shreeve (Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas); MIDDLE GRADE: Jennifer L. Holm (The Lion of Mars), Aimee Lucido (Recipe for Disaster), and Shanthi Sekaran (The Samosa Rebellion); YOUNG ADULT: Stacey Lee (Luck of the Titanic), Anna-Marie McLemore (The Mirror Season), and Tess Sharpe (The Girls I've Been), bookselling by Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore follows, in-person, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 2:00 pm PDT (For more information, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2022 or https://sfpl.org/events)


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- Fiction writer, essayist and journalist Lauren Markham will discuss and read from her new book, Immemorial, the latest volume in Transit Books' Undelivered Lectures series, on the design and function of memorials, with writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit, Call Them By Their True Names, presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, 3:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-02-08/lauren-markham-and-rebecca-solnit)
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- Author of two National Book Award-winning novels, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward will discuss her latest novel, Let Us Descend, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/ward-2025)
27 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday
- Poet and author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros will discuss her first poetry collection in twenty-eight years, Woman Without Shame, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/cisneros-2025)
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- Author of the best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom will discuss his latest novel, The Little Liar, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/albom-2025)
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