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2007 Massachusetts Book Awards Announced
posted Tuesday, 8 May 2007
forwarded from Sharon Shaloo, MA Center for the Book
AMHERST, Mass. (May 4, 2007) - The Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2007 Book Awards last night amid a cheering crowd at the Massachusetts Library Association annual conference in Sturbridge. History and politics featured prominently in the selections this year, as did storytelling of exceptional power and grace. The awards are presented annually to books published in the previous calendar year by Massachusetts authors, or to books with a strong Massachusetts theme.
"We moved the announcement up to the spring this year to give libraries across the state time to plan programming for the fall," explained Sharon Shaloo, Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book. "Based on the reception the titles received, we expect Massachusetts libraries will be big supporters of these books and authors during the 2007-2008 programming year."
The Massachusetts Book Awards for 2007 (with author residence noted):
Fiction Award
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Alfred A. Knopf) - SOMERVILLE
Fiction Honors
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin (HarperCollins) - MILTON
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed (HarperCollins) - CAMBRIDGE
Nonfiction Award
Mayflower: by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking) - NANTUCKET
Nonfiction Honors:
House of War by James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin) - BOSTON
Failed States by Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan/Henry Holt) - LEXINGTON
Poetry Award
Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - CAMBRIDGE
Poetry Honors:
The Republic of Poetry by Martín Espada (W. W. Norton) - AMHERST
God's Silence by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) - WALTHAM
Children's Literature Award
Incantation by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown) - BOSTON
Children's Literature Honors :
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (Hyperion) - CHATHAM
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop (Wendy Lamb/Random House) -
WILLIAMSTOWN
The announcement of the awards previews the launch of a year of reading promotion. Beginning in September, the Center will post reading and discussion guides for each award title at its web site (http://www.massbook.org). These guides are developed by librarians and other interested readers from across the commonwealth who are experienced book discussion leaders and reading advisors. The Center also facilitates MassBook author visits to libraries and bookstores in every region of the state, and it takes the award books on the road, featuring them at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. (Read about this year's NBF at http://www.loc.gov/bookfest.)
"The MassBooks are always very promotable," says Rebecca Frank, program coordinator for the Massachusetts Book Awards, "and for that we give full credit to the extraordinary judges who volunteer their time and expertise to the selection."
This year's judges are Israella Abrams, Swampscott Public Library; Lisa Borders, author of Cloud Cuckoo Land; Jeanne Braham, editor, author of Light Within the Light; Jennifer Hanson, Primary Source Inc., Watertown; Pat Keogh, Foundation for Children's Books, Boston; Ifeanyi Mentiki, Wellesley College & Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge; Jacqueline Rafferty, Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset; Chris Rose, Andover Bookstore; Richard D. Simpson, Water Street Books, Williamstown; Suzanne
Strempek Shea, author of Shelf Life; Jennifer Whitehead, Belchertown Public Library.
The Massachusetts Center for the Book is the Commonwealth affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It works within the network of state-center affiliates across the country to promote books, reading, literacy, and libraries. MCB sponsors programming and develops collaborations that forward the cause of books and lifelong reading in our commonwealth. It is supported, in part, by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Hampshire College, Massachusetts Board of Library
Commissioners, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and Simmons College.
You can read more about the Book Awards and other Center for the Book programs - including the new Literary Map of Massachusetts - at http://www.massbook.org
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AMHERST, Mass. (May 4, 2007) - The Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the winners of the 2007 Book Awards last night amid a cheering crowd at the Massachusetts Library Association annual conference in Sturbridge. History and politics featured prominently in the selections this year, as did storytelling of exceptional power and grace. The awards are presented annually to books published in the previous calendar year by Massachusetts authors, or to books with a strong Massachusetts theme.
"We moved the announcement up to the spring this year to give libraries across the state time to plan programming for the fall," explained Sharon Shaloo, Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book. "Based on the reception the titles received, we expect Massachusetts libraries will be big supporters of these books and authors during the 2007-2008 programming year."
The Massachusetts Book Awards for 2007 (with author residence noted):
Fiction Award
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (Alfred A. Knopf) - SOMERVILLE
Fiction Honors
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin (HarperCollins) - MILTON
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed (HarperCollins) - CAMBRIDGE
Nonfiction Award
Mayflower: by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking) - NANTUCKET
Nonfiction Honors:
House of War by James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin) - BOSTON
Failed States by Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan/Henry Holt) - LEXINGTON
Poetry Award
Averno by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - CAMBRIDGE
Poetry Honors:
The Republic of Poetry by Martín Espada (W. W. Norton) - AMHERST
God's Silence by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) - WALTHAM
Children's Literature Award
Incantation by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown) - BOSTON
Children's Literature Honors :
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (Hyperion) - CHATHAM
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop (Wendy Lamb/Random House) -
WILLIAMSTOWN
The announcement of the awards previews the launch of a year of reading promotion. Beginning in September, the Center will post reading and discussion guides for each award title at its web site (http://www.massbook.org). These guides are developed by librarians and other interested readers from across the commonwealth who are experienced book discussion leaders and reading advisors. The Center also facilitates MassBook author visits to libraries and bookstores in every region of the state, and it takes the award books on the road, featuring them at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. (Read about this year's NBF at http://www.loc.gov/bookfest.)
"The MassBooks are always very promotable," says Rebecca Frank, program coordinator for the Massachusetts Book Awards, "and for that we give full credit to the extraordinary judges who volunteer their time and expertise to the selection."
This year's judges are Israella Abrams, Swampscott Public Library; Lisa Borders, author of Cloud Cuckoo Land; Jeanne Braham, editor, author of Light Within the Light; Jennifer Hanson, Primary Source Inc., Watertown; Pat Keogh, Foundation for Children's Books, Boston; Ifeanyi Mentiki, Wellesley College & Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge; Jacqueline Rafferty, Paul Pratt Memorial Library, Cohasset; Chris Rose, Andover Bookstore; Richard D. Simpson, Water Street Books, Williamstown; Suzanne
Strempek Shea, author of Shelf Life; Jennifer Whitehead, Belchertown Public Library.
The Massachusetts Center for the Book is the Commonwealth affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It works within the network of state-center affiliates across the country to promote books, reading, literacy, and libraries. MCB sponsors programming and develops collaborations that forward the cause of books and lifelong reading in our commonwealth. It is supported, in part, by the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Hampshire College, Massachusetts Board of Library
Commissioners, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and Simmons College.
You can read more about the Book Awards and other Center for the Book programs - including the new Literary Map of Massachusetts - at http://www.massbook.org
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