The Los Angeles Times has announced the winners of this year’s Los Angeles Book Prize.
The winners were revealed at a virtual event hosted by Times Book Editor, Boris Kachka. Winners were awarded in twelve different categories which includes biography, current interest, fiction, first, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction since 1980.
David Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black, a novel which was translated by Anna Moschovakis, has emerged as the winner in the fiction category. David Diop announced his win view his Twitter handle:
Wonderful feeling yesterday to see my novel awarded the @latimes #41st book prize for the best fiction novel. Most grateful and thankful to my translator Anna Moschovakisfor her magic work on #AtDarkAllBloodIsBlack
Kachka, while reading his introduction during the virtual event said that: “The pandemic has upended every single aspect of our lives, but I suspect many of you will agree with me that it’s only deepened our appreciation for the solitary pleasure of reading. [Reading] is solitary but of course it’s communal, too, because in reading we communicate with socially-distanced writers and all their characters, real or invented. We may isolate, but as long as we have books we are never isolated.”
Some previous winners of this prize include NoViolet Bulawayo, Dinaw Mengestu, Uzodinma Iweala, Namwali Serpell, and Marlon James.
Visit here to see list of winners.
Afreecan Read congratulates David Diop.
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