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California Book Awards
June 13, 2016 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm UTC+0
Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards
FICTION
Gold: Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Silver: Ernest J. Finney, Elevation 6040, Texas Review Press
NONFICTION
Gold: Jill Leovy, Ghettoside, Spiegel & Grau
Silver: Steve Silberman, Neurotribes, Avery Publishing
YOUNG ADULT
Gold: Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep, Harper Teen
Silver: Andrew Smith, The Alex Crow, Dutton Books for Young Readers
FIRST FICTION
Gold: Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer, Grove Press; First Edition
JUVENILE
Gold: Alex Gino, George, Scholastic Press
POETRY
Gold: Beth Murray, Cancer Angel, Belladonna Publishing
CALIFORNIANA
Gold: Tom Killion, California’s Wild Edge, Heyday
Gold: Tom Killion, California’s Wild Edge, Heyday
CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING
Gold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, Edited by James Karman, Stanford University Press
Important Upcoming Dates
#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition
Awards Ceremony: June 13, 2016
#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23, 2016.