Nathan Hill, Rosemarie Waldrop Among Authors Awarded Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

The 37th Annual Los Angeles Book Award winners were announced on Friday at the beginning of the LA Times Festival of Books, awarding writers for First Fiction, Autobiographical Prose, Current Interest, and more. Tig Notaro hosted the evening in Bovard Auditorium at the University of Southern California. Since its first year in 1980, writers like Joan Didion, Allen Ginsberg, John Green, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez have received honors. This year's batch of writers demonstrates the continued excellence in contemporary literature, with many winners touching on subjects relevant to our current political and historical climate. The nominees are judged by a panel of working writers and include 11 different subject categories.

Here is the full list of winners:

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Nathan Hill
The Nix
Alfred A. Knopf

Biography

Volker Ullrich
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939
Alfred A. Knopf

The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose