Oregon authors big winners in Northwest book awards.Byline: The Register-Guard Oregon writers dominated this year's Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association awards, announced Friday. For 40 years, PNBA PNBA Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association - an association of independent bookstores - has presented annual awards recognizing excellent writing and illustration by residents of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The six winners this year include two Lane County writers: Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). writer and painter Kurt Cyrus, for "Hotel Deep," his children's book about a lone sardine sardine: see herring. sardine Any of certain species of small (6–12 in., or 15–30 cm, long) food fishes of the herring family (Clupeidae), especially in the genera Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella. and other underwater creatures; and Elmira writer John Daniel, for "Rogue River Journal," his nonfiction reflection on five months of solitude in a cabin in a remote Oregon canyon. Awards also go to former University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. professor Diana Abu-Jaber, now of Portland, for her food memoir ``The Language of Baklava'' and to Amity am·i·ty n. pl. am·i·ties Peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship. [Middle English amite, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *am writer Floyd Skloot for his poetry collection ``Approximately Paradise.'' Two books by Washington writers round out this year's selections, which come with a $1,000 cash award to be presented at PNBA's trade show in March. Former newspaper reporter Jim Lynch won for "The Highest Tide," his coming of age story about a scientifically precocious 13-year-old who discovers rare sea creatures in Puget Sound. And Garth Stein won for "How Evan Broke His Head," a novel that draws on the subject of his award-winning PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, documentary film: his older sister's epilepsy. - Karen McCowan |
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