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30th ANNUAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDSSunday, April 10, 2011, 1:00
Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street in San Francisco
Followed by a reception and book signing in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room
Celebrate Northern California's vibrant literary scene when the 30th annual Northern California Book Awards recognize the best published works of 2010 on Sunday, April 10, 1:00-2:30 pm at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street in San Francisco. A book signing and reception with the authors follows the Awards Ceremony in the Latino/Hispanic Room from 2:30-4:00 pm. Nominated books will be for sale by Readers Bookstore at the Main/Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Admission is free. For more information, please call (510) 525-5476 or visit http://poetryflash.org/NCBA.html
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDIndivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry,
edited by Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingam,
University of Arkansas Press

FRED CODY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTTAMIM ANSARY, Afghan American writer, lecturer, editor and teacher
The 2011 Northern California Book Award Nominees are:
FICTION* Ivan and Misha, stories, Michael Alenyikov, TriQuarterly Books
* Heidegger's Glasses, Thaisa Frank, Counterpoint
* Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, stories, Yiyun Li, Random House
* Death is Not an Option, stories, Suzanne Rivecca, W.W. Norton
* The More I Owe You, Michael Sledge, Counterpoint

POETRY* Suck on the Marrow, Camille T. Dungy, Red Hen Press
* Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, Andrew Joron, City Lights Publishers
* Writing the Silences, Richard O. Moore, University of California Press
* Rough Honey, Melissa Stein, American Poetry Review
* Pleasure, Brian Teare, Ahsahta Press
* Come on All You Ghosts, Matthew Zapruder, Copper Canyon Press

GENERAL NONFICTION* Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon & Schuster
* The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton
*Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language, Aífe Murray, University Press of New England
* Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, Robert B. Reich, Alfred A. Knopf
* The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Richard Rhodes, Alfred A. Knopf

CREATIVE NONFICTION* Not by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist, Elliot Aronson, Basic Books
* A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California, Laura Cunningham, Heyday
* Cakewalk, a memoir, Kate Moses, The Dial Press
* Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Rebecca Solnit, University of California Press
* Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean, Julia Whitty, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

TRANSLATIONFICTION
* Translation by Anne Milano Appel, Blindly, by Claudio Magris, from Italian,
Penguin Group (Canada)
* Translation by David Frick, A Thousand Peaceful Cities, by Jerzy Pilch, from
Polish, Open Letter Books
* Translation by Damion Searls, Comedy in a Minor Key, by Hans Keilson,
from German, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
POETRY
* Translation by Kurt Beals, engulf-enkindle, by Anja Utler, from German,     
Burning Deck
* Translation by Joshua Edwards, Ficticia, by María Baranda, from Spanish, Shearsman Books
* Translation by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis, Maribor, by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, from Greek, The Post-Apollo Press

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE* Arroz con leche/Rice Pudding: Un poema para cocinar/A Cooking Poem, Jorge Argueta, illustrator Fernando Vilela, Groundwood Books/Libros Tigrillo
* The Haunting of Charles Dickens, Lewis Buzbee, Feiwel and Friends
* The Vinyl Princess, Yvonne Prinz, HarperTeen/HarperCollins Publishers
* Other Goose: Re-Nurseried!! and Re-Rhymed!! Children's Classics,
J. Otto Seibold, Chronicle Books
* Shooting Kabul, N.H. Senzai, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Paula Wiseman Books
The 2011 Awards are presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, PEN West, Mechanics' Institute, Red Room (redroom.com), San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.