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NEWS Seattle
Public Library FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Sept. 27, 2002 WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2002 WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARDS The Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library announces the selection of the 10 winners of the 2002 Washington State Book Awards. These recipients will be honored at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, at a public ceremony at the Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle. The gala awards ceremony will be held in the auditorium and will be followed by a reception and book-signing. Thanks to the sponsorship of Verizon and the Seattle Public Library Foundation, each award winner will receive a $1,000 honorarium. "We are delighted to be able to give cash awards to these well-deserving writers," said Terry Collings, executive director of the Seattle Public Library Foundation. The winning titles are: "Keepers of the Truth," a novel by Michael Collins, of Seattle (Scribner) "Whale Talk," a young adult novel by Chris Crutcher, of Spokane (Greenwillow Books) "Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems, 1951-2001" by Madeline DeFrees, of Seattle (Copper Canyon Press) "Swimming Toward the Ocean," a novel by Carole Glickfeld, of Seattle (Knopf) "Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year" by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, of Seattle (Sasquatch Books). "Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey from America Into Her Indian Family’s Past," a memoir by Mira Kamdar, of Vancouver, Wash. (Plume) "Cool, Calm and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000" by Carolyn Kizer, now of Sonoma, Calif. (Copper Canyon Press) "Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World" by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, of Seattle (McGraw-Hill) "Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret" by Duff Wilson, of Kirkland (HarperCollins) "Northern Haida Master Carvers" by Robin K. Wright, of Seattle (University of Washington Press) Now in its 36th year, the Washington State Book Award (formerly known as the Governor’s Writers Award) honors books published by Washington authors during the previous calendar year. The panel selects books based on three criteria: literary merit, lasting importance, and overall quality of the publication. "As always, the judges’ discussions were passionate, lively, and occasionally contentious," said Nancy Pearl, executive director of the Washington Center for the Book. "But we all think this is a terrific list of 10 outstanding books." The jurists for the Washington State Book Awards represent various facets of the state’s literary community. This year’s judges were: Kristina Anderson, editor, writer, former literacy program coordinator at Harborview Medical Center; Carol Jane Bangs, poet and director of the Marrowstone Institute; Sharon Cumberland, professor of English at Seattle University; Christopher Howell, associate professor of English and creative writing, Eastern Washington University; and Mark Mouser, manager of general books, University Book Store. - SPL - (For more information, contact Nancy Pearl, executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, at 206-386-4184 or nancy.pearl@spl.org; or Chris Higashi, associate director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, at 206-386-4650 or chris.higashi@spl.org.) |
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