Los Angeles Times Book Prize

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize is a renowned literary prize that has been awarded annually by the Los Angeles Times since 1980 .

The prizes are awarded in twelve categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first work (since 1991), history, poetry, science and technology (since 1989), children's books (since 1998), mystery / thriller (since 2000), innovative (since 2009), graphic novel (since 2009) and autobiographical literature (since 2016). There is also the Robert Kirsch Award for a living author from the western United States, named after Robert Kirsch, the long-time literary critic of the Los Angeles Times. Each category is endowed with prize money of $ 500, the Robert Kirsch Award with $ 1000. Nine different independent juries with three members each decide on the awarding of the prizes.

Categories

biography

Current interest

  • 1980: Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury
  • 1981: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman
    • We roared inwards: Torture in the dictatorship today, German by Joachim A. Frank; S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982. ISBN 3-10-090802-3
  • 1982: The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
    • The fate of the earth: danger and consequences of a nuclear war, German by Hainer Schober; Piper, Munich, Zurich 1982. ISBN 3-492-02802-0
  • 1983: Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
    • Hole in the cosmos: the last help yourself book, German by Hans-Ulrich Möhring; Sphinx, Basel 1991. ISBN 3-85914-189-9
  • 1984: Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
  • 1985: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah , Richard Madsen , William M. Sullivan , Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton
    • Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Public Sense in American Society, German by Ingrid Peikert; Bund, Cologne 1987. ISBN 3-7663-0967-6
  • 1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
    • Time is black: Tragedy South Africa, German by Bernd Rullkötter; Ullstein, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main 1986. ISBN 3-550-07740-8
  • 1987: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
    • The blind watchmaker: a new plea for Darwinism, German by Karin de Sousa Ferreira; Kindler, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-463-40078-2
  • 1988: Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider
  • 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
  • 1990: Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by OB Hardison
  • 1991: Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by EJ Dionne
  • 1992: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
    • The end of the story: where are we ?, German by Helmut Dierlamm; Kindler, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-463-40132-0
  • 1993: Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry
  • 1994: Diplomacy from Henry Kissinger
    • The Reason of Nations: About the Nature of Foreign Policy, by Matthias Vogel; Siedler, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-88680-486-0
  • 1995: Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
  • 1996: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
    • The thing with the war: Bosnia from 1992 to Dayton, German by Barbara Scriba-Sethe; Knesebeck, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-89660-023-0
  • 1997: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
    • The spirit grabs you and you fall to the ground: a Hmong child, his western doctors and the clash of two cultures, German by Leonie von Reppert-Bismarck and Thomas Rütten; Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-8270-0336-9
  • 1998: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
    • We would like to inform you that we and our families will be killed tomorrow: reports from Rwanda, German by Meinhard Büning; Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-8270-0351-2
  • 1999: Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter ) by Mitchell Duneier
  • 2000: Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald
  • 2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Arbeit poor: on the way in the service society, German by Niels Kadritzke; Kunstmann, Munich 2001. ISBN 3-88897-283-3
  • 2002: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine
  • 2003: The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill
  • 2004: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
    • Generation Kill: the new face of the American war, by Andreas Simon dos Santos; Two thousand and one 2005. ISBN 3-86150-725-0
  • 2005: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War , by Anthony Shadid
  • 2006: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
    • The limits of tolerance: the murder of Theo van Gogh, German by Wiebke Meier; Hanser, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-446-20836-4
  • 2007: Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet
  • 2008: Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
  • 2009: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
    • Zeitoun, German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann; Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2011. ISBN 3-462-04299-8
  • 2010: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
    • The Big Short: How a handful of traders gambled the world away, German by Ulrike Bischoff, Petra Pyka and Birgit Schöbitz; Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-593-39357-5
  • 2011: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • 2012: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
  • 2013: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
  • 2014: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
  • 2015: Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chaynes
  • 2016: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Swetlana Alexijewitsch
    • Secondhand time: living on the ruins of socialism; German by Ganna-Maria Braungardt; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-446-24150-3
  • 2017: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
  • 2018: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
  • 2019: Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon

fiction

First work

history

  • 1980: Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
  • 1981: Land of Savagery / Land of Promise by Ray Allen Billington
  • 1982: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence
    • The Gate of Heavenly Peace: the Chinese and their Revolution 1895 - 1980, German by Ulrike Unschuld; Beck, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-406-30536-9
  • 1983: The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
    • Social history of the 15th-18th centuries Century. Vol. 2: The trade, German by Siglinde Summerer u. Gerda Kurz; Kindler, Munich 1986. ISBN 3-463-40026-X
  • 1984: The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton
    • The great cat massacre: Forays into French culture before the revolution, German by Jörg Trobitius; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-446-14158-8
  • 1985: Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
  • 1986: The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking
  • 1987: not awarded
  • 1988: Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
  • 1989: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler
    • A realm of its own: how Jewish emigrants invented Hollywood, German by Klaus Binder and Bernd Leineweber; Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-8270-0353-9
  • 1990: The Quest for El Cid by Richard A. Fletcher
    • El Cid: the life and legend of the Spanish national hero; a biography, German by Martin Pfeiffer; Beltz, Weinheim, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-88679-312-5
  • 1991: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
  • 1992: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille
  • 1993: New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton
  • 1994: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
  • 1995: Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America by Jackson Lears
  • 1996: Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
  • 1997: A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes
    • The tragedy of a people: the epoch of the Russian Revolution 1891 to 1924, German by Barbara Conrad with the collaboration of Brigitte Flickinger and Vera Stutz-Bischitzky; Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-8270-0243-5
  • 1998: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
    • The art of healing: a medical history of mankind from antiquity to today, German by Jorunn Wissmann; Spectrum, Heidelberg, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-8274-0472-X
  • 1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
  • 2000: The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan
  • 2001: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
  • 2002: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
  • 2003: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
  • 2004: Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
  • 2005: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
    • Break the chains: the decisive fight for the abolition of slavery, German by Ute Spengler; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 3-608-94123-1
  • 2006: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
  • 2007: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
  • 2008: Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
    • Hitler's Empire: Europe under the Rule of National Socialism, German by Martin Richter; Beck, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-406-59271-3
  • 2009: Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950 - 1963 by Kevin Starr
  • 2010: The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers
  • 2011: Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
  • 2012: America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union by Fergus M. Bordewich
  • 2013: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
    • The sleepwalkers: How Europe moved into the First World War, in German by Norbert Juraschitz, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-421-04359-7
  • 2014: The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
    • Deluge: The new order of the world 1916-1931, German by Norbert Juraschitz and Thomas Pfeiffer, Siedler Verlag, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-88680-928-8
  • 2015: Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron
  • 2016: An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
  • 2017: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
  • 2018: Travelers In The Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism 1919–1945 by Julia Boyd
  • 2019: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Mystery / thriller

science and technology

  • 1989: Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal
    • Wild diplomats. Reconciliation and détente among monkeys and humans, German by Ellen Vogel; Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1991. ISBN 3-446-16003-5
  • 1990: Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith
  • 1991: The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev
  • 1992: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
  • 1993: Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology - and How It Is Changing Our World by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger
    • Fuzzy logic. The "fuzzy" logic is conquering technology, by Robert Jaroslawski; Dromer Knaur, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-426-26583-4
  • 1994: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
    • The beak of the finch or the short breath of evolution, German by Matthias Reiss; Munich: Droemer Knaur 1994. ISBN 978-3-426-26536-9 )
  • 1995: Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
    • The fullness of life. A declaration of love to the wonders of nature, by Thorsten Schmid; Claassen, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-546-00159-1 )
  • 1996: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
    • The dragon in my garage or the art of science to expose nonsense, German by Michael Schmidt; Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-426-26912-0
  • 1997: How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
    • How thinking arises in the head, German by Martina Wiese and Sebastian Vogel; Kindler, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-463-40341-2
  • 1998: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
    • Blood - material for life and commerce, German by Inge Leipold; Gerling, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-932425-12-X
  • 1999: Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
    • Galileo's daughter. A story of science, the stars and love, by Barbara Schaden; Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2008. ISBN 3-8333-0517-7
  • 2000: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu , MD
  • 2001: The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn
    • The invention of the clouds. How an unknown meteorologist explored the language of the sky, German by Ilse Strasmann; Insel, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig 2001. ISBN 3-458-17084-7
  • 2002: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
    • Rosalind Franklin. The discovery of DNA or a woman's struggle for scientific recognition, by Conny Lösch; Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003. ISBN 3-593-37192-8
  • 2003: Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts
  • 2004: The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth
  • 2005: Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston
  • 2006: In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
    • In search of memory. The emergence of a new science of the mind, German by Hainer Kober; Siedler, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-88680-842-4
  • 2007: I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
    • I am a strange loop, German by Susanne Held; Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 3-608-94444-3
  • 2008: The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
    • The war over the black hole. How I struggled with Stephen Hawking to save quantum mechanics, German by Friedrich Griese; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-518-42205-2
  • 2009: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
  • 2010: The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman
  • 2011: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar
    • Market and Morals: The Great Economists and Their Ideas, German by Yvonne Badal, Bertelsmann; Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-570-10026-4
  • 2012: Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
  • 2013: Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
    • Countdown: Does the earth have a future ?, dt by Ursula Pesch and Werner Roller, Piper Verlag, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-492-05431-7
  • 2014: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
    • The sixth dying: How man writes natural history, German by Ulrike Bischoff, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-42481-0
  • 2015: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
  • 2016: Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
  • 2017: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
    • Violence and compassion. The biology of human behavior, German by Hainer Kober and Antoinette Gittinger; Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25672-9 .
  • 2018: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
    • Dopesick: How Doctors and the Pharmaceutical Industry Make Us Addicted, German by Andrea Kunstmann; Heyne, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-453-27227-9
  • 2019: Figuring by Maria Popova

Poetry

youth book

Graphic novel

Autobiography

  • 2016: They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
  • 2017: The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered by Benjamin Taylor
  • 2018: Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
  • 2019: Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

Innovator's Award

Robert Kirsch Award

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