Oregon Book Award

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for "the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature."^[1][2]

Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts. In 1993, Literary Arts, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the Oregon Institute for Literary Arts 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.^[3]

Recipients

Award for fiction

2002: The Necessary Grace to Fall: Stories by Gina Ochsner

2001: Throwing Knives by Molly Best Tinsley

2000: Storm Riders by Craig Lesley

1999: Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet

1998: The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies

1997: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

1996: What Falls Away by Tracy Daugherty

1995: Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

1994: Arabian Jazz by Diana Abu-Jaber

1993: Dreams Like Thunder by Diane Simmons

1992: Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin

1991: (no award given)

1990: The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss

1989: Cardinal Numbers by Hob Broun

1988: Within Normal Limits by Todd Grimson

1987: Resurrectionists by Russell Working

Ken Kesey Award for the Novel

2007: Twenty Questions by Alison Clement

2006: The Best People in the World: A Novel by Justin Tussing

2005: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater by Marc Acito

2004: Axeman's Jazz by Tracy Daugherty

2003: His Mother's Son by Cai Emmons

H. L. Davis Award for Short Fiction

2007: The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio

2006: People I Wanted to Be by Gina Ochsner

2005: Resistance by Barry Lopez

2004: Saving Stanley by Scott Nadelson

2003: It Takes a Worried Man by Tracy Daugherty

Ken Kesey Award for Fiction

2015: The Revolution of Every Day by Cari Luna

2014: The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories: Volume 1 and 2 by Ursula K. Le Guin

2013: Shards by Ismet Prcic

2012: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

2011: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

2009/2010: Livability: Stories by Jon Raymond

2008: Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet

Award for Literary Nonfiction

2002: My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger

2001: When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him

2000: The Night Gardener by Marjorie Sandor

1999: The Left Hand of Eden by William Ashworth

1998: Making It Home by Lars Nordström

1997: Looking After by John Daniel

1996: Volcano by Garrett Hongo

1995: Voyage of a Summer Sun by Robin Cody

1994: Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler

1993: The Trail Home by John Daniel

1992: No Duty to Retreat by Richard M. Brown

1991: Wings for My Flight by Marcy Cottrell Houle (co-winner)

1991: My Country, My Right to Serve by Mary Ann Humphrey (co-winner)

1990: Baja Journey by Robin Carey

1989: A Golden Journey by Luther Cressman

1988: Faces of a Reservation by Cynthia Stowell

1987: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction

2015: Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self by Alex Tizon

2014: Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins

2013: The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret by Kent Hartman

2012: Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration Of The Empire's 2600th Anniversary by Kenneth J. Ruoff

2011: Savages and Scoundrels by Paul VanDevelder

2009/2010: Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty

2008: One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity by Steven W. Bender

2007: Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America by Garrett Epps

2006: Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan by Andrew Bernstein

2005: Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown by James C. Mohr

2004: In Search of Ancient Oregon by Ellen Morris Bishop

2003: Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune by Barbara S. Mahoney

Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

2015: The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld by Justin Hocking

2014: Wedlocked by Jay Ponteri

2013: Crazy Enough by Storm Large

2012: The Shape Of The Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, And The Stories We Inherit by George Estreich

2011: The Far Corner by John Daniel

2009/2010: Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves by John Kroger

2008: Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler

2007: The Things Between Us by Lee Montgomery

2006: When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation by George Aguilar

2005: The Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore

2004: The Stuff of Life by Karen Karbo

2003: Providence of a Sparrow by Chris Chester (co-winner)

2003: In The Shadow Of Memory by Floyd Skloot (co-winner)

Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

2015: Sorrow Arrow by Emily Kendal Frey

2014: Incarnadine by Mary Szybist

2013: Fjords Vol 1 by Zachary Schomburg

2012: Curses And Wishes by Carl Adamshick

2011: The Book of Men and Women by David Biespiel

2009/2010: All-American Poem by Matthew Dickman

2008: A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth by Penelope Scambly Schott

2007: The Sky Position by Tom Blood

2006: Facts About the Moon by Dorianne Laux

2005: Leaving by Laton Carter

2004: Men Holding Eggs by Henry Hughes

2003: The Play of Dark and Light by Rita Ott Ramstad

2002: In The Margins Of The World by Willa Schneberg

2001: The Evening Light by Floyd Skloot

2000: Passion by Judith Montgomery

1999: Ruining the Picture by Pimone Triplett

1998: Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Café by Sandra Stone

1997: Drawing the Line by Lawson Fusao Inada

1996: Journeyman's Wages by Clemens Starck

1995: Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone by James Grabill

1994: Lauds by Tom Crawford

1993: A Book of Other Days by Lisa M. Steinman

1992: Selected Poems by Vern Rutsala

1991: Psyche Drives the Coast by Sharon Doubiago

1990: Toluca Street by Maxine Scates

1990: Dreamer by Primus St. John

1989: The Admiration's by Lex Runciman

1988: Singing the Mozart Requiem by Ingrid Wendt

1987: Seal Rock by John Haislip

Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama

2015: Ithaka by Andrea Stolowitz

2013: Antarktikos by Andrea Stolowitz

2011: The Lost Boy by Susan Mach

2008: Lost Wavelengths by Steve Patterson

2006: Arthur's Dreams by Richard Moeschl

2004: Vitriol and Violets by Shelly Lipkin, Louanne Moldovan and Sherry Lamoreaux

2001: Lost and Found by Dori Appel

2000: Wonderbroads by Melinda Pittman

1999: The Lunatic Within by Dori Appel

1998: Freud's Girls by Dori Appel

1997: Drawing Down Clio by Doug Baldwin

1996: Picasso in the Backseat by Dmae Roberts

1994: A Pirate's Lullaby by Jessica Litwak

1992: The Disappearance and Death of Amelia Earhart by E. J. Westlake

1990: Five Minute Wars by Sharon Whitney

1989: Holding Patterns by Dan Duling

1988: The Second Coming of Joan of Arc by Carolyn Gage

Award for Young Readers Literature

2001: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2000: The Gate in the Wall by Ellen Howard

1999: A Voice from the Border by Pamela Smith Hill

1998: Shark Bait by Graham Salisbury

1997: The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

1996: Journey of the Red Wolf by Roland Smith

1995: Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

1994: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff

1993: Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury

1992: The Striped Ships by Eloise McGraw

1991: Four Dollars and Fifty Cents by Eric Kimmel

1990: Dragon's Milk by Susan Fletcher

Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature

2015: Whistle in the Dark by Susan Hill Long

2014: Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous by Graham Salisbury

2013: Drawing From Memory by Allen Say

2012: Calvin Coconut: Hero Of Hawaii by Graham Salisbury

2011: Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix by Graham Salisbury

2009/2010: Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole by Deborah Hopkinson

2008: A Day With No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch

2007: Not in Room 204 by Shannon Riggs

2006: Tour America by Diane Siebert

2005: Cave Paintings to Picasso by Henry Sayre

2004: Luba by Michelle McCann

2003: Three Samurai Cats by Eric Kimmel

Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature

2015: The Body In the Woods by April Henry

2014: The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna

2013: Blue Thread by Ruth Tenzer Feldman

2012: Wildwing by Emily Whitman

2011: The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys by Scott William Carter

2009/2010: I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall by Roland Smith

2008: The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan / A Taste for Rabbit by Linda Zuckerman (tie)

2007: Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher

2006: Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

2005: A Heart for Any Fate by Linda Crew

2004: Deep by Susanna Vance

2003: The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed by Heather Vogel Frederick

2002: Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

Special Award Winners

1995: Wilma Erwin

1994: Ralph Friedman

1992: Paul Pintarich

1991: Don James

1990: Mary Barnard

1989: George Venn

1988: William Everson

Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award

2014: Vern Rutsala

2008: Barry Lopez

2006: Ursula K. Le Guin

2003: George Hitchcock

1999: Ken Kesey

1998: Priscilla Knuth

1996: Eloise McGraw

1995: Damon Knight

1994: Early Pomeroy

1993: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

1992: Terence O'Donnell

1991: Walt Morey

1990: Janet Stevenson

1989: Vi Gale

1988: Dorothy Johansen

1987: George Belknap

Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award

2015: Tom Spanbauer

2014: Vince & Patty Wixon

2013: Larry Colton

2011: John Laursen

2009: Matt Love

2008: Marlene Howard

2007: Kim Stafford

2006: Paulann Petersen

2005: Barbara LaMorticella

2004: David Milholland

2003: David Hedges

2002: Carla Perry

2001: Erik Muller

2000: Rich Wandschneider

1999: Peter Sears

1998: Dennis & Linny Stovall

1997: Ruth Gundle & Judith Barrington

1996: Brian Booth

1995: Tom Ferte

1994: George Venn

1993: Penny Avila

1992: Clyde Rice

1991: Walt Curtis

1990: Sandra Williams

1989: Katharine McCanna

1988: Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature

1987: Northwest Review

Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award

2015: Jann Tankersley

2014: Ellen Fader

2013: Oregon Battle of the Books

2012: Ulrich Hardt

2011: The Children's Book Bank

2009: The Dove Lewis Animal Assisted Therapy Program: Read to the Dogs Program^[4]

2008: Young Writers Association

2007: Mark Mizell

2006: John Monteverde

2005: Carol Brown

2004: Patricia R. Gallagher

2003: Jerry Isom

2002: Ready to Learn

2001: Oregon advisory boards of First Book

2000: Cathy Schneider

1999: Claudia Jones

1998: Barbara J. McKillip

Readers Choice Award

2015: The Free by Willy Vlautin

2014: The Orchardist Amanda Coplin

2013: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

2012: The Chronology Of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

2011: Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award

2014: Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch

2012: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco

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