FORUM Magazine Summer 2007
Whether your taste runs to mysteries or histories, poetry or politics, you will find something to feed your intellect in the work produced by the winners of the Florida Book Awards. Click here to learn more about the 2006 winners.
List of Winners: 2006 Florida Book Awards
General Fiction:
Gold: Tony D’Souza, Whiteman (Harcourt)
Silver: Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl (Knopf)
Bronze: Elizabeth Dewberry, His Lovely Wife (Harcourt)
Florida Nonfiction
Gold: Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster)
Silver: Daniel S. Murphree, Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783 (University Press of Florida)
Bronze: (three-way tie): Bill Belleville, Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape (University Press of Florida); Martin A. Dyckman, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins (University Press of Florida); J. Stanley Marshall, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University (Sentry)
Spanish Language Book
Gold: Daina Chaviano, La Isla De Los Amores Infinitos (Random House)
Poetry
Gold: James Kimbrell, My Psychic (Sarabande)
Silver: Jay Hopler, Green Squall (Yale University Press)
Bronze: (two-way tie): Kelle Groom, Luckily (Anhinga Press); Peter Meinke, The Contracted World (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Young Adult
Gold: Adrian Fogelin, The Real Question (Peachtree)
Silver: Joyce Sweeney, Headlock (Henry Holt)
Bronze: (two-way tie): Caridad Ferrer, Adios to My Old Life (Simon & Schuster); Tracy A. Akers, The Fire and the Light (Ruadora)
Children’s Literature
Gold: N.E. Bode, The Somebodies (Harper Collins)
Silver: Laurie Friedman, In Business with Mallory; Illus., Barbara Pollak (Lerner)
Popular Fiction
Gold: James O. Born, Escape Clause (Putnam)
Silver: Ward Larsen, The Perfect Assassin (Oceanview)
Bronze: (three-way tie): M.D. Abrams, Murder at Wakulla Springs: A North Florida Mystery (Booklocker); Randy Wayne White, Dark Light (Putnam); Brad Meltzer, The Book of Fate (Warner)
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