Our group, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, announced the winners of the 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Awards today. Congratulations to Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers), Jonathan Evison (West of Here), Thor Hanson (Feathers), Ismet Prcic (Shards), Craig Thompson (Habibi) and Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water)! An awards committee of nine indie booksellers selected these titles from nearly 300 submitted books, which they winnowed to a shortlist in November. We’ll be presenting original essays from the winning authors each week on Northwest Book Lovers, beginning next Wednesday, and each author will be honored at an indie bookstore of his or her choosing.
See more about the 2012 Book Awards here and about the history of the PNBA Awards and past winners here.
Shards is an amazing book – congrats to Ismet Prcic and all the rest of the winners too!