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Oklahoma Book Awards recognize state authors
BY Karen Klinka | Published: April 5, 2009
Oklahoman
Oklahoma City author Carolyn Wall’s debut novel "Sweeping Up Glass” about the mysterious killing of wolves in rural Kentucky in the 1930s won the fiction award at the 20th annual Oklahoma Book Awards Saturday at the Oklahoma Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Mystery author Carolyn Hart. By Chris Landsberger
The awards reception and banquet drew a crowd of more than 220 that included authors, publishers, librarians, book editors and people who simply love to read.
The event was sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book, part of the state Libraries Department and a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Cherokee novelist and poet Robert Conley was presented with the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for a body of work contributing to Oklahoma’s literary heritage. The award is named for the Norman historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
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AWARD WINNERS
The 20th annual Oklahoma Book Awards competition drew 159 entries. The winners, who were chosen from 35 finalists, were:
→Fiction: "Sweeping Up Glass,” by Oklahoma City author Carolyn Wall, and published by Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, Ariz.
→Nonfiction: "Full Court Quest: The Girls
From Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World,” by authors Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, both of Middletown Springs, Vt., and
published by the University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman.
→Design: "Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment,” designed by Eric H. Anderson and Karen Hayes-Thumann, with photographs by Todd Stewart, all from OU’s School of Art in Norman, and published by OU Press.
→Illustration: "What Dogs Want for Christmas,” illustrated by Kandy Radzinski of Tulsa and published by Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, Mich.
→Children/Young Adult: "Spy,” by author Anna Myers of Chandler and published by Walker Books, New York.
→Poetry: "Two Tables Over,” by Norman poet Nathan Brown and published by Village Books Press, Cheyenne.
