Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards
The 12th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration, hosted by celebrated Virginia author Adriana Trigiani, took place at the Library on Saturday evening, October 17, 2009. Award winners announced that evening were:
Fiction: Domnica Radulescu. Train to Trieste. Alfred A. Knopf.
Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W. W. Norton Company.
People's Choice Award for Fiction: Martin Clark, The Legal Limit
People's Choice Award for Nonfiction: Roger Mudd, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: John Grisham
Presentations were also made at the Celebration to the Weinstein Poetry Prize recipients Charles Wright and Eleanor Ross Taylor and to the Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature recipient Doreen Rappaport for Abe’s Honest Words.
Virginia is home to many authors whose works have enriched our lives and filled our libraries. The Library is proud to present the Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration as a way of thanking these authors and celebrating the power of the written word. We are grateful for the generous support of the sponsors who made the 12th Annual Literary Awards possible: presenting sponsor Dominion, event sponsors Weinstein Properties and Media General, media sponsors the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Community Idea Stations, and table sponsors Terra Nova Title & Settlement Services and Mercer Trigiani.
The Library of Virginia Literary Awards are given to outstanding Virginia authors in the areas of poetry, fiction, nonfiction (and, in the case of nonfiction, also by any author about a Virginia subject), and literary lifetime achievement. These are juried awards and winners in each category receive a $3,500 prize and an engraved crystal book. Past winners include Carrie Brown, Helon Habila, Richard Bausch, Deborah Eisenberg, Wesley Hogan, Scott Nelson, Melvin Ely, James I. Robertson Jr., Charles Wright, Constance Merritt, and R. T. Smith. Visit here to view a list of all previous winners of the Library of Virginia Literary Awards.
The Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, founded in 2005, is given each year to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia. The $10,000 annual prize recognizes significant recent contributions to the art of poetry and is awarded on the basis of a range of achievements in the field of poetry.
Also awarded at the Celebration are the Annual People’s Choice Awards for the best works of fiction and nonfiction by a Virginia author and the Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature. For more information on nominations, prizes, and past winners of these awards visit here.Nominate a book for the 2010 Awards (books published in 2009)
Read the competition guidelines
Submit the online form
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Complete the interactive PDF and mail to:
The Library of Virginia Literary Awards
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000
View photos from past celebrations.