From Literary Arts

LITERARY ARTS CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS OF THE 2022 OREGON BOOK AWARDS

[This week], during our first in-person ceremony since 2019, the winners of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards, selected by panels of out-of-state judges, were announced.

KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION

Omar El Akkad of West Linn
What Strange Paradise: A Novel
(Alfred A. Knopf)

Judges: Alexandra Kleeman, Robin Wasserman, Charles Yu

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY

Dao Strom of Portland
Instrument
(Fonograf Editions)

Judges: Craig Morgan Teicher, Sun Yung Shin, Malcolm Tariq

 

AWARD FOR GRAPHIC LITERATURE

Breena Bard of Portland
Trespassers: A Graphic Novel
(Graphix, Scholastic)

Judges: Nidhi Chanani, Matthew Forsythe, Michael Sheyahshe

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

Jacob Darwin Hamblin of Corvallis
The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
(Oxford University Press)

Judges: Paula Becker, Elizabeth Rush, Julie Tate-Libby

SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION

Allison Cobb of Portland
Plastic: An Autobiography
(Nightboat Books)

Judges: Melissa Febos, John Freeman, Marie Mutsuki Mockett

 

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Courtney Gould of Salem
The Dead and the Dark
(Wednesday Books)

Judges: Zan Romanoff, Francisco X. Stork,
Shelley Tanaka

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Jennie Englund of Ashland
Taylor Before and After
(Square Fish, Macmillan)

Judges: Joseph Bruchac, Lisa Jahn-Clough,
Mechal Renee Roe

SPECIAL AWARD

THE STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD

Cynthia Whitcomb of Wilsonville

In recognition of outstanding, long-term support of Oregon’s literary community. 

The official bookstore for the event was Broadway Books of Portland, OR.