Literary Arts, a Portland-based nonprofit, announced the winners of the annual Oregon Book Awards on Monday.
The winners:
• “Lean on Pete” by Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, Ore., received the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers’ Choice Award.
• “The Book of Men and Women” by David Biespiel of Portland received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.
• “Savages and Scoundrels” by Paul VanDevelder of Corvallis, Ore., received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction.
• “The Far Corner” by John Daniel of Elmira, Ore., received the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction.
• “Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix” by Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego, Ore., received the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature.
• “The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys” by Scott William Carter of Salem, Ore., received the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature.
• “The Lost Boy” by Susan Mach of Portland won the Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama.
In addition, John Laursen of Portland received the Steward H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award. Laursen is a designer, writer, editor and publisher, as well as co-author of “Wild Beauty, Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957.”
The Children’s Book Bank of Portland was recognized with the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award. The nonprofit works to improve the literacy skills of children from poor households by giving books to kids before they reach kindergarten.
More information about the awards and Literary Arts is online at http://Literary-Arts.org.
