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Literary award for writers from Oregon, United States
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon , United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers."[ 1]
Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA).[ 2] [ 3] In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year.
In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom , in an effort to make it more lively and fun.[ 4] Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage .[ 5]
Year
Book
Author
1998
The Ugliest House in the World
Peter Ho Davies
1999
Like Never Before
Ehud Havazelet
2000
Storm Riders
Craig Lesley
2001
Throwing Knives
Molly Best Tinsley
2002
The Necessary Grace to Fall
Gina Ochsner
2003
It Takes a Worried Man
Tracy Daugherty
2004
Saving Stanley
Scott Nadelson
2005
Resistance
Barry Lopez
2006
People I Wanted to Be
Gina Ochsner
2007
The Dead Fish Museum
Charles D'Ambrosio
Award for Literary Nonfiction [ edit ]
Year
Book
Author
1987
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
1988
Faces of a Reservation
Cynthia Stowell
1989
A Golden Journey
Luther Cressman
1990
Baja Journey
Robin Carey
1991
Wings for My Flight / My Country, My Right to Serve
Marcy Cottrell Houle / Mary Ann Humphrey (tie)
1992
No Duty to Retreat
Richard M. Brown
1993
The Trail Home
John Daniel
1994
Stubborn Twig
Lauren Kessler
1995
Voyage of a Summer Sun
Robin Cody
1996
Volcano
Garrett Hongo
1997
Looking After
John Daniel
1998
Making It Home
Lars Nordström
1999
The Left Hand of Eden
William Ashworth
2000
The Night Gardener
Marjorie Sandor
2001
When Broken Glass Floats
Chanrithy Him
2002
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books
Alfred Habegger
Year
Book
Author
2003
Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune
Barbara S. Mahoney
2004
In Search of Ancient Oregon
Ellen Morris Bishop
2005
Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown
James C. Mohr
2006
Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan
Andrew Bernstein
2007
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
Garrett Epps
2008
One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity
Steven W. Bender
2009/2010
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Tracy Daugherty
2011
Savages and Scoundrels
Paul VanDevelder
2012
Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration Of The Empire's 2600th Anniversary
Kenneth J. Ruoff
2013
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
Kent Hartman
2014
Duel with the Devil
Paul Collins
2015
Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self
Alex Tizon
2016
A Long High Whistle
David Biespiel
2017
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty
2018
Fish Market
Lee van der Voo
2019
Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon
Kenneth R. Coleman
2020
Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
David Wolman and Julian Smith
2021
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin , William F. Buckley Jr. , and the Debate over Race in America
Nicholas Buccola
2022
The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
2023
Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
Lauren Kessler
2024
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Josephine Woolington
Year
Book
Author
2003
Providence of a Sparrow
Chris Chester
2003
In The Shadow Of Memory
Floyd Skloot
2004
The Stuff of Life
Karen Karbo
2005
The Pine Island Paradox
Kathleen Dean Moore
2006
When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation
George W. Aguilar
2007
The Things Between Us
Lee Montgomery
2008
Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
Lauren Kessler
2009/2010
Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
John Kroger
2011
The Far Corner
John Daniel
2012
The Shape Of The Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, And The Stories We Inherit
George Estreich
2013
Crazy Enough
Storm Large
2014
Wedlocked
Jay Ponteri
2015
The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld
Justin Hocking
2016
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Kate Carroll de Gutes
2017
Angels With Dirty Faces
Walidah Imarisha
2018
Animals Strike Curious Poses
Elena Passarello
2019
The Gospel of Trees
Apricot Irving
2020
Anxious Attachments
Beth Alvarado
2021
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country
Sierra Crane Murdoch
2022
Plastic: An Autobiography
Allison Cobb
2023
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
Casey Parks
2024
Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
Erica Berry
Year
Book
Author
1988
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
Carolyn Gage
1989
Holding Patterns
Dan Duling
1990
Five Minute Wars
Sharon Whitney
1992
The Disappearance and Death of Amelia Earhart
E. J. Westlake
1994
A Pirate's Lullaby
Jessica Litwak
1996
Picasso in the Backseat
Dmae Roberts
1997
Drawing Down Clio
Doug Baldwin
1998
Freud's Girls
Dori Appel
1999
The Lunatic Within
Dori Appel
2000
Wonderbroads
Melinda Pittman
2001
Lost and Found
Dori Appel
2004
Vitriol and Violets
Shelly Lipkin, Louanne Moldovan, and Sherry Lamoreaux
2006
Arthur's Dreams
Richard Moeschl
2008
Lost Wavelengths
Steve Patterson
2011
The Lost Boy
Susan Mach
2013
Antarktikos
Andrea Stolowitz
2015
Ithaka
Andrea Stolowitz
2017
Words That Burn
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez
2019
Successful Strategies
Andrea Stolowitz
2021
You Cannot Undo This Action
Conor Eifler
2023
The Storyteller
Sara Jean Accuardi
Award for Young Readers Literature [ edit ]
Year
Book
Author
2003
Three Samurai Cats
Eric Kimmel
2004
Luba
Michelle McCann
2005
Cave Paintings to Picasso
Henry Sayre
2006
Tour America
Diane Siebert
2007
Not in Room 204
Shannon Riggs
2008
A Day With No Crayons
Elizabeth Rusch
2009/2010
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole
Deborah Hopkinson
2011
Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix
Graham Salisbury
2012
Calvin Coconut: Hero Of Hawaii
Graham Salisbury
2013
Drawing From Memory
Allen Say
2014
Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous
Graham Salisbury
2015
Whistle in the Dark
Susan Hill Long
2016
With a Friend by Your Side
Barbara Kerley
2017
Hannah and Sugar
Kate Berube
2018
The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan
Patricia Bailey
2019
The Turning
Emily Whitman
2020
Lowriders: Blast from the Past
Cathy Camper
2021
A Game of Fox and Squirrels
Jenn Reese
2022
Taylor Before and After
Jennie Englund
2023
Friends Are Friends, Forever
Dane Liu
2024
Too Early
Nora Ericson
Readers Choice Award [ edit ]
1988: William Everson
1989: George Venn
1990: Mary Barnard
1991: Don James
1992: Paul Pintarich
1994: Ralph Friedman
1995: Wilma Erwin
1987: George Belknap
1988: Dorothy Johansen
1989: Vi Gale
1990: Janet Stevenson
1991: Walt Morey
1992: Terence O'Donnell
1993: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
1994: Earl Pomeroy
1995: Damon Knight
1996: Eloise McGraw
1998: Priscilla Knuth
1999: Ken Kesey
2003: George Hitchcock
2006: Ursula K. Le Guin
2008: Barry Lopez
2014: Vern Rutsala
2015: Ralph Salisbury
2017: Jarold Ramsey
2020: Lawson Fusao Inada
2021: Molly Gloss
1987: Northwest Review
1988: Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature
1989: Katharine McCanna
1990: Sandra Williams
1991: Walt Curtis
1992: Clyde Rice
1993: Penny Avila
1994: George Venn
1995: Tom Ferte
1996: Brian Booth
1997: Ruth Gundle & Judith Barrington
1998: Dennis & Linny Stovall
1999: Peter Sears
2000: Rich Wandschneider
2001: Erik Muller
2002: Carla Perry
2003: David Hedges
2004: David Milholland
2005: Barbara LaMorticella
2006: Paulann Petersen
2007: Kim Stafford
2008: Marlene Howard
2009: Matt Love
2011: John Laursen
2013: Larry Colton
2014: Vince & Patty Wixon
2015: Tom Spanbauer
2016: Douglas Spangle
2017: The Independent Publishing Resource Center
2018: Tracey Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor
2019: José González
2020: Write Around Portland
2021: Elizabeth Lyon
2023: Gary Miranda
2024: Ellen Waterston
1998: Barbara J. McKillip
1999: Claudia Jones
2000: Cathy Schneider
2001: Oregon advisory boards of First Book
2002: Ready to Learn
2003: Jerry Isom
2004: Patricia R. Gallagher
2005: Carol Brown
2006: John Monteverde
2007: Mark Mizell
2008: Young Writers Association
2009: The Dove Lewis Read to the Dogs Program
2011: The Children's Book Bank
2012: Ulrich Hardt
2013: Oregon Battle of the Books
2014: Ellen Fader
2015: Jann Tankersley
2016: Curtis Kiefer
2017: The SMART (Start Making A Reader Today ) Program
2018: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
2020: Reading Results
2021: PlayWrite, Inc.
2023: Dawn Babb Prochovnic
Literary Fellowships [ edit ]
C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry [ edit ]
2018: Matthew Minicucci
2019: Pamela K. Santos
2020: Alicia Jo Rabins
2021: Amy Miller
Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young Readers [ edit ]
2018: Erica A. Briggs
2019: Amy Baskin
2020: Kelly Garrett
2021: Shana Targosz
Fellowship in Fiction [ edit ]
2018: Omar El Akkad and Adair V
Fellowship in Poetry [ edit ]
2018: manuel arturo abreu, Danielle Cadena Deulen , and Milo R. Muise
Fellowship in Publishing [ edit ]
2018: Clackamas Literary Review and Pacifica: Poetry International
2019: Atelier 26 Books and Opossum: A Literary Marsupial
2020: Fonograf Editions and Octopus Books
2021: Forest Avenue Press and Northwest Review
Fellowship in Nonfiction [ edit ]
2018: Elizabeth Enslin, Susan Shepard, and Brian Trapp
2019: Sterling Cunio and Justin Taylor
2020: Garet Lahvis
2018: Takashi L. Kendrick and Mika Tanner
2019: Ana-Maurine Lara and Chris Stuck
2020: Cynthia L. Brown and Taylor Koekkoek
2021: Pedro Hoffmeister and Emily Woodworth
Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship [ edit ]
2018: Alberto Yáñez (for nonfiction)
2019: Chelsea Biondolillo (for nonfiction)
2020: Rachael Carnes (for drama)
2021: Sara Jean Accuardi (for drama)
Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship [ edit ]
2018: Jacob Aiello and Jake Vermaas
2019: Karen Luper and Marcus Lund
2020: Marjorie Celona and Gabriel Urza
Oregon Literary Career Fellowship [ edit ]
2020: Beth Alvarado and Dao Strom
2021: Annie Sheppard and Sandy Tanaka
2019: Jennifer Perrine
2021: Alyssa Ogi
Walt Morey Fellowship [ edit ]
2018: Cindy Baldwin (for drama)
2019: Stacy Brewster (for drama)
2020: Jamie Cooper (for poetry)
2021: Scott Korb (for nonfiction)
Women Writers Fellowship [ edit ]
2018: Naomi Ulsted
2019: Natalie Hirt
2020: Eliza Rotterman
2021: A. M. Rosales
Writers of Color Fellowship [ edit ]
2018: Reema Zaman
2019: Christopher Rose
2020: Olufunke Grace Bankole
2021: Kesha Ajose-Fisher
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