{"id":24221,"date":"2016-01-10T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=24221"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:42:09","slug":"24221-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/24221-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidia Yuknavitch wins two 2016 Oregon Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24222\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/24221-2\/wws-2012-5-of-38\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24222\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24222\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium \/ photo by Robert Hill Long.\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38-260x377.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38-160x232.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WWS-2012-5-of-38.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium \/ photo by Robert Hill Long.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations are due UO graduate Lidia Yuknavitch, who helped inaugurate the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium in May 2012 as a featured author at MemoirFest. Lidia, who earned her PhD in English at the University of Oregon, is the winner of two Oregon Book Awards, announced on April 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION<br \/>\nLidia Yuknavitch of Portland<br \/>\nThe Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)<\/p>\n<p>READERS CHOICE AWARD<br \/>\nLidia Yuknavitch of Portland<br \/>\nThe Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literary-arts.org\/what-we-do\/oba-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Oregon Book Award winners<\/a><br \/>\nELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN&#8217;S LITERATURE<br \/>\nBarbara Kerley of\u00a0 Portland<br \/>\nWith a Friend by Your Side (National Geographic Society)<\/p>\n<p>LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE<br \/>\nBrian Doyle of Lake Oswego<br \/>\nMartin Marten (St. Martin&#8217;s Press)<\/p>\n<p>FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION<br \/>\nDavid Biespiel of Portland<br \/>\nA Long High Whistle (Antilever Press)<\/p>\n<p>SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION<br \/>\nKate Carroll de Gutes of Portland<br \/>\nObjects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Ovenbird Books)<\/p>\n<p>AWARD FOR GRAPHIC LITERATURE<br \/>\nAriel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke of\u00a0 Portland<br \/>\nThe Zoo Box (First Second Books)<\/p>\n<p>STAFFORD\/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY<br \/>\nCarl Adamshick of Portland<br \/>\nSaint Friend (McSweeney&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION<br \/>\nLidia Yuknavitch of Portland<br \/>\nThe Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)<\/p>\n<p>READERS CHOICE AWARD<br \/>\nLidia Yuknavitch of Portland<br \/>\nThe Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)<\/p>\n<p>SPECIAL AWARDS:<\/p>\n<p>STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD<br \/>\nDoug Spangle of Portland<\/p>\n<p>WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD<br \/>\nCurtis Kiefer of Philomath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are due UO graduate Lidia Yuknavitch, who helped inaugurate the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium in May 2012 as a featured author at MemoirFest. Lidia, who earned her PhD in English at the University of Oregon, is the winner&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/24221-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,171,173],"tags":[135,160,273,504],"class_list":["post-24221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-literature","category-women-writers","tag-lidia-yuknavitch","tag-memoirfest","tag-northwest-women-writers-symposium","tag-uo-alumna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32988,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24221\/revisions\/32988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}