Winner of the 41st annual Northern California Book Awards were celebrated on Sunday in San Francisco at an event presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, and San Francisco Public Library, with community partners Mechanics' Institute Library, Women's National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter, and PEN West.
The winners:
Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement & Service: Isabel Allende, the Chilean writer and novelist who lives in the Bay Area
NCBR Groundbreaker Award: Mule Kick Blues: And Last Poems by Michael McClure, edited with an introduction by Garrett Caples (City Lights)
NCBR Recognition Award: ZYZZYVA, a San Francisco Journal of Arts & Letters
Fiction: The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris (The Unnamed Press)
Poetry: Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press)
Creative Nonfiction: Model Citizen by Joshua Mohr (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
General Nonfiction: American Revolution by David Talbot and Margaret Talbot (Harper)
California Translation: The Blinding Star by Blanca Varela, translated by Lisa Allen Ortiz and Sara Daniele Rivera from the Spanish (Tolsun Books)
Children's Literature, Younger Readers: Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas by Elizabeth Shreeve, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Candlewick)
Children's Literature, Middle Grade: The Samosa Rebellion by Shanthi Sekaran (Katherine Tegen Books)
Children's Literature, Young Adult: The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends)
