40th Annual Northern California Book Awards

40th Annual Northern California Book Awards
Sunday, July 11, 2021, 2:00pm PDT
This event will be live on Zoom Webinar and on the San Francisco Public Library’s YouTube channel:
Zoom Registration - http://bit.ly/NoCalBook7-11-21

For updates, including judges’ reviews, see http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2021

Celebrate Northern California's vibrant literary scene on Sunday, July 11, 2021, 2:00 pm, when the Northern California Book Awards will recognize the best published works of 2020 by Northern California authors and California translators! Presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, and San Francisco Public Library, with our community partners Mechanics' Institute Library, Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter, and Pen West. City Lights Books will host the NCBA virtual bookshop for featured books.

This year, for the first time, the California Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose will honor works of translation by translators across California. Translation nominees named here include literary translators from all over the Golden State, including North Bay, Oakland, San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara, and San Diego areas.

FRED CODY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT and SERVICE
Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2015-2017; Teacher and Activist
Every Day We Get More Illegal, City Lights Books, 2020

NCBR GROUNDBREAKER AWARD
Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Poet Laureate, 2021; Teacher and Activist

FICTION
Tell Me, Signora, Ann Harleman, Elixir Press
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories, Caroline Kim, University of Pittsburgh Press
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth, Daniel Mason, Little, Brown and Company
Only the River, Anne Raeff, Counterpoint
The Son of Good Fortune, Lysley Tenorio, Ecco/HarperCollins

Category: Arts | Books and Literature