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Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards
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April 1998 - The 17th annual Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards ceremony, honoring books published by Northern California writers in 1997, was held in Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason, in San Francisco on March 30, 1998.
The History of Jazz (Oxford) by Ted Gioia of Palo Alto won the Nonfiction Award.
Le Divorce (Dutton) by Diane Johnson of San Francisco won the Fiction Award.
Spells for Not Dying Again (Eastern Washington University Press) by Diana O'Hehir of San Francisco won the Poetry Award.
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (HarperCollins) by Ji-Li Jiang of San Francisco won the Children's Literature Award.
Poetry Flash, a Poetry Review and Literary Calendar for the West in honor of its 25th anniversary, won a Special Award in Publishing.
In addition, Maxine Hong Kingston won the Fred Cody Award. The Cody Award, founded in honor of the late Berkeley bookseller, is given for lifetime literary achievement and community service.
BABRA is a volunteer organization of Bay Area book reviewers, founded in 1982 to give recognition to Northern California writers. Awards are for books published in each calendar year, by writers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in California north of a line between Big Sur and Fresno. The awards are presented at an annual ceremony held in San Francisco. Authors or publishers should submit two copies of each eligible book. Deadline: December 1 of the calendar year of publication. Please note that the Cody Award is not a competitive award, recipients are nominated and chosen by the members of BABRA.
Cary James
Babra Fiction
caryjames@compuserve.com
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