"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are given annually in ten categories. To be eligible for one of the prizes a book must have been published in English within the last year. The most recent winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction is featured below, along with a complete list of all past winners of the prize. We also provide links to the winners of the other Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, and to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The most recent winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 2007 - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu (2008 winner will be announced April 2009)
All previous winners of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 1991 - Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie
1992 - High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney
1993 - Love by Paul Kafka
1994 - The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka
1995 - American Studies by Mark Merlis
1996 - The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
1997 - Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell
1998 - Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk
1999 - Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
2000 - The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
2001 - The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
2002 - Prague by Arthur Phillips
2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2004 - Harbor by Lorraine Adams
2005 - Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
2006 - White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
2007 - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
2008 - Award will be announced April 2009
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery > > >
The Official Website Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
(Please visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of all Book Awards on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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