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On December 1, 2006, at a ceremony held at the Portland Art Museum, the winners of the 20th Annual Oregon Book Awards were announced. The Award, founded in 1987 by the Literary Arts --- a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the importance of language and literacy --- honors the accomplishments of Oregon writers in eight categories, along with three special prizes. The winners are chosen by out-of-state judges, based solely upon literary merit.
The winners of the 2006 Oregon Book Awards are:
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
FACTS ABOUT THE MOON by Dorianne Laux (W. W. Norton)
Ken Kesey Award for the Novel
THE BEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD by Justin Tussing (HarperCollins)
H. L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
PEOPLE I WANTED TO BE by Gina Ochsner (Houghton Mifflin)
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
MODERN PASSINGS: DEATH RITES, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN IMPERIAL JAPAN by Andrew Bernstein (University of Hawaii Press)
Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction
WHEN THE RIVER RAN WILD! INDIAN TRADITIONS ON THE MID-COLUMBIA AND THE WARM SPRINGS RESERVATION by George Aguilar, Sr. (University of Washington Press)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature
TOUR AMERICA by Diane Siebert (SeaStar)
Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
EYES OF THE EMPEROR by Graham Salisbury (Wendy Lamb)
Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama
Arthur's Dreams by Richard Moeshi
C. E. S. Wood Distinguished Writer Award
Ursula K. Le Guin
Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award
Paulann Petersen
Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award
John Monteverde
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