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/Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement is featured below, along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. 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 Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement

2007 - Maxine Hong Kingston (2008 winner will be announced April 2009)

All previous winners of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement

1980 - Wallace Stegner

1981 - Wright Morris

1982 - Ross Macdonald

1983 - M. F. K. Fisher

1984 - Christopher Isherwood

1985 - Janet Lewis

1986 - Kay Boyle

1987 - Paul Horgan

1988 - Thom Gunn

1989 - Karl Shapiro

1990 - Czeslaw Milosz

1991 - Ken Kesey

1992 - Diane Johnson

1993 - Carolyn See

1994 - Brian Moore

1995 - Stephen J. Pyne

1996 - Gary Snyder

1997 - Ray Bradbury

1998 - John Sandford

1999 - Ursula K. Le Guin

2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2001 - Tillie Olsen

2003 - Ishmael Reed

2004 - Tony Hillerman

2005 - Joan Didion

2006 - William Kittredge

2007 - Maxine Hong Kingston

2008 - Award will be announced April 2009

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction > > >

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.)