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WORD:
Kingsolver, Kirby among 2008 SIBA Book Award winners
Edited Press Release
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) announced that Sarah Addison Alle, Barbara Kingsolver
and David Kirby
are among the winners of the 2008 SIBA Book Award, celebrating the best
of southern literature as chosen by the people who would know:
independent booksellers throughout the US South.
Each year,
hundreds of booksellers across the South vote on their favorite
hand-sell books of the year. These are the Southern books they have
most enjoyed selling to customers; the ones that they couldn't stop
talking about; the ones most often pushed into a customer's hands with
the words, "You have got to read this!"
The SIBA Book Award was created to recognize great books of Southern
origin, as determined by people whose business it is to know great
books-the independent booksellers of the South. Books are nominated in
five categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cooking and
children's. For a book to be eligible, it must be set in the South, and
it must have been published within the calendar year.
The 2008 SIBA Book Award Winners include the following authors and
categories:
FICTION: Garden Spells by Sarah
Addison Allen, Bantam Books
"Asheville, N.C resident Sarah Addison Allen has made a fan out of us!
In her first novel, Allen gives us great characters, a pinch of magic
and a beautiful cover that draws us in." ~ Two Sisters Bookery
POETRY: The House On Boulevard Street by David Kirby, LSU Press
"Kirby's narrative poems are so amazing and thought-provoking, funny in
places you would never expect, and wise and humble. Like the very best
in poetry, they need to be read out loud. You have the feeling you have
set out on a journey with a fascinating companion, lost track of the
way, and when you are sure you are lost you suddenly find yourself, if
not exactly where you intended to be then in a new place even better
than you expected to find." ~ Inkwood Books
COOKBOOK: A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson, William Morrow
"Black-eyed pea hummus--yummy!" ~ Park Road Books
NONFICTION: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara
Kingsolver, HarperCollins
"A fascinating and beautifully written book that is about so much more
than merely eating locally." ~ City Lights Bookstore
CHILDRENS: Deep in the Swamp by Donna
Bateman, illustrated by Brian
Lies, Charlesbridge
"I absolutely love selling this book to children. The swamp in
the book is in Georgia, but relates to our Louisiana swamps, too. I
love giving kids books about their own land and heritage. Beautiful
illustrations on every page." ~ The Raven Bookstore
Beginning in 2008, the SIBA Book Awards Ceremony will be held as part
of the Decatur Book Festival on Labor Day Weekend in Decatur, GA. The
festival, which attracts upwards of 60,000 attendees each year, is open
to the public and promises to garner increased exposure for the Awards
and the award-winning books and authors.
For more information about the SIBA Book Awards and the Decatur Book
Festival, please visit SIBA's website.
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