[OPLINLIST] 2013 Ohioana Book Awards announced

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Connecting Readers and Ohio Writers

2013 OHIOana book Award Winners Announced
Columbus, OH - September 3, 2013. The Ohioana Library Association<http://www.ohioana.org/> announced today the winners of the 2013 Ohioana Book Awards and the Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant. This year will mark the seventy-second anniversary of the Ohioana Book Awards, the oldest and most prestigious literary prizes in the Buckeye State. Awards will be given in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile, About Ohio or an Ohioan, and this year a special category, fiction set in Ohio, will be recognized.
The Ohioana Book Awards are given annually to recognize and honor outstanding books published the previous year by authors who were born in Ohio or who have lived in Ohio for at least five years, the exception being a book about Ohio or an Ohioan and, this year's the special category, fiction set in Ohio.  "The 2013 book award winners are exceptional and have received numerous accolades from Ohio and multiple national awards as well. Ohio has wonderful authors and we can all be proud and inspired by their creative accomplishments," said Linda Hengst, executive director of the Ohioana Library. "We receive 500-800 traditionally published books each year, which are eligible for the book awards. All books are screened by small committees of book professionals who determine the finalists in each category and a final selection committee chooses the winners. Their descisions were difficult but they chose the best of the best."
The recipients of the 2013 Ohioana Book Awards are:  (more information about each book and author can be found at the end of this release)
Fiction: The Coldest Night<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-olmstead/coldest-night/> by Robert Olmstead<http://www.robertolmsteadbooks.com/author/>
Nonfiction: The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds<http://www.oprah.com/blogs/Book-of-the-Week-The-Bluebird-Effect> by Julie Zickefoose<http://www.juliezickefoose.com/index.php>
Juvenile:  His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue and Mystery During World War II<http://www.amazon.com/His-Name-Was-Raoul-Wallenberg/dp/0618507558> by Louise W. Borden<http://louiseborden.com/>
Poetry: White Papers<http://www.upress.pitt.edu/htmlSourceFiles/pressReleases/CollinsPR.pdf> by Martha Collins<http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors/CollinsMartha.aspx>
About Ohio/Ohioan: America's Other Audubon<http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890599> by Joy M. Kiser<http://joykiser.com/index_files/Page384.htm>
Fiction - Set in Ohio: The Last Runaway<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tracy-chevalier/last-runaway/> by Tracy Chevalier<http://tchevalier.com/index.php/about>
Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant<http://www.ohioana.org/awards/marvin.asp> - (awarded to an unpublished author under the age of thirty) will be presented to Bernard Matambo<http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/B/Bernard-Farai-Matambo.html>.
The Ohioana Awards will be presented on Friday evening, October 11th and the public is invited to attend. The event will be held at the Ohio Statehouse<http://www.statehouse.state.oh.us/> in the Museum Gallery beginning at 6:00PM with a reception, followed by the presentation of the Awards and an informal roundtable discussion with the award winners. Light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. Admission is $40.00 per person and reservations are required.  The Ohioana Awards Presentation and Reception is just one of the many ways that Ohioana "connects readers and Ohio writers."
For more information about the Ohioana Awards or to make reservations for the Friday reception please contact the Ohioana Library, 274 East First Ave., Suite 300, Columbus, OH  43201, call 614-466-3831, email Ohioana at Ohioana.org<mailto:ohioana at ohioana.org>, or make your reservations online at http://ohioanalibrary.mybigcommerce.com/ohioana-awards.
The first books recognized by Ohioana in 1942 were nonfiction titles. James Reston's Prelude to Victory won the award and Washington is Like That by Willard Kiplinger and The Long Ships Passing by Walter Havighurst received honorable mentions. The first Ohioana Book Awards for juvenile literature and fiction were given in 1943 to The Great Lakes by Marie Emilie Gilchrist and Bitter Honey by Martin Joseph Freeman, respectively. In 1944, Ohioana gave the first poetry book award to Kenneth Patchen for Cloth of the Tempest and "about Ohio or an Ohioan" award to Philip Dillon Jordan for Ohio Comes of Age.
Ohioana's mission is to recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve, and expand a permanent archive of books, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public.  Ohioana is a 501C(3) not for profit organization supported by memberships, subscription, gifts, grants, and a subsidy from the State of Ohio.
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ABOUT THE 2013 OHIOANA AWARD WINNING BOOKS AND AUTHORS - (photos of authors and book covers are available at http://www.ohioana.org/awards/)
ROBERT OLMSTEAD - The Coldest Night<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-olmstead/coldest-night/>, Algonquin, 2012

Two-time Ohioana Award-winner Robert Olmstead is the author of eight books. The Coldest Night is the story of a young man's enlistment into the Marines, his experiences in the Korean War, and the challenges he faces when he returns. The Coldest Night was selected as an Editors' Pick for Amazon's Best of 2012 list, a Publisher's Weekly pick for Best Books of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews' Top 25 Fiction Books of 2012, and it is a finalist for the 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
 Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA grant, and he is currently a professor of English and Director of Ohio Wesleyan's Creative Writing Program. He previously served as Senior Writer in Residence at Dickinson College and as director of the creative writing program at Boise State University. Coal Black Horse, published in 2008, was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction, the Ohioana Award for fiction, a #1 Book Sense Pick, and a Borders Original Voices pick. It was also a 2011-2012 Choose to Read Ohio adult title.
JULIE ZICKEFOOSE - The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds<http://www.oprah.com/blogs/Book-of-the-Week-The-Bluebird-Effect>, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

Julie Zickefoose, a writer, naturalist, NPR commentator, watercolor painter, and gardener lives on eighty acres of Appalachian Ohio woodland. The Bluebird Effect contains twenty-four stories and 320 drawings that have grown from Zickefoose's forty years of working with, studying, drawing, and helping birds; trying to fix them when they're broken and mothering them when they're orphaned.

Chosen as Oprah's Book of the Week in April 2012, The Bluebird Effect is an amalgam of memoir, natural history, and beautiful watercolor paintings and life sketches. Zickefoose started as an illustrator of natural history, and after a six-year stint as a field biologist with The Nature Conservancy's Connecticut Chapter, she began to write her own essays, studded with observations of birds and animals, and writing slowly crept into the forefront of her interests. Marietta, Ohio-based Bird Watcher's Digest has been the major print venue for her writing since 1986, and she's painted twenty-three covers for the magazine. Zickefoose's first book of illustrated essays, Letters from Eden, was published in 2006, shortly after she started her natural history blog, Julie Zickefoose on Blogspot. In 2008, Zickefoose was recognized by Ohioana when she was awarded an Ohioana Citation for Art, Writing, and Commentary.
LOUISE W. BORDEN - His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue and Mystery During World War II<http://www.amazon.com/His-Name-Was-Raoul-Wallenberg/dp/0618507558>, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012

Louise Borden was born in Cincinnati and has spent most of her life in her hometown. Inspired by a grandmother who loved history, Borden grew up fascinated by the stories of ordinary people and their relation to historical events. She began writing children's books in 1989 and to date has penned more that twenty-five fiction and nonfiction books for young readers.

His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg is the remarkable story of Raoul Wallenberg, whose name may not be familiar, but his impact was immeasurable. Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. The 2013 Ohioana Book Award marks Borden's third Ohioana Award. The Greatest Skating Race, set in the Netherlands during World War II, was chosen for a 2005 Ohioana Book Award and in 2002, Borden received the Ohioana Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature for the body of her work and her contributions to children's literature. Included among her many other awards are the 2002 alumni citation from Denison University; and two Sydney Taylor Book Awards, in 2006 for The Journey that Saved Curious George and in 2013 for His Name was Raoul Wallenberg.
White Papers<http://www.upress.pitt.edu/htmlSourceFiles/pressReleases/CollinsPR.pdf> by Martha Collins<http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/OhioAuthors/CollinsMartha.aspx> - University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Martha Collins founded the Creative Writing Program at UMass-Boston and was Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College for ten years. She is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor for the Oberlin College Press. White Papers, Collins' most recent book is a series of untitled poems that explore race from a variety of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, questioning what it means to be "white" in a multi-racial society. Publisher's Weekly said White Papers' "clipped quatrains, spare recollections, and embedded citations give the rare and valuable show of a white author reflecting on the meanings and the oddities of race...She here deploys a range of forms, visual as well as aural, and a range of effects, from a hammering self-reflection to ironic collage."

Collins' first book, Blue Front, the 2006 Ohioana Book Award Winner for Poetry, is a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Iowa, Collins has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize.
JOY M. KISER - America's Other Audubon<http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890599>, Architectural Press, 2012

Akron native Joy M. Kiser found refuge in the natural world, much like Genevieve Jones; the amateur naturalist, illustrator, and the subject of America's Other Audubon. Kiser's beautifully illustrated and masterfully researched tome chronicles the story of Genevieve Jones, her family, and the making of Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, a work produced in only 90 copies and completed in 1886. America's Other Audubon reproduces all of the hand-colored lithographs for the very first time. Jonathan Rosen said, "America's Other Audubon is a vital work of scholarly reclamation that will, I hope, introduce a wide world to the remarkable Genevieve Jones and the familial collaboration her life and death inspired."

Kiser, a graduate of University of Akron, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University, began her career as the librarian for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. While at CMNH, she began researching and publishing articles about "America's Lady Audubon," Genevieve Jones. Kiser moved to the Washington, DC area to become the librarian for the National Endowment for the Arts and then to work as an Editor/Writer for the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. Currently, she is writing a historical narrative version of the remarkable Jones family's story. In 2012, America's Other Audubon was selected as one of the best-designed books of the year by the Design Observer.
TRACY CHAVALIER* - The Last Runaway<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tracy-chevalier/last-runaway/>, Dutton 2013

Washington D.C. native Tracy Chevalier, received a BA in English from Oberlin College, an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, and has lived in England for all of her adult life. She is a New York Times best-selling author of six previous novels, including Girl With a Pearl Earring, which sold four million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson; the film based on the novel received three Academy Award nominations.

Chevalier's latest novel, The Last Runaway, is the story of a young English Quaker woman who in 1850, becomes stranded and alone in Ohio far away from home where she learns that principles count for little, even within a religious community. NPR book reviewer Mary Sharrat called Chevalier's writing "meticulously researched historical fiction, filled with gritty detail yet rendered in luminous prose;" and says of The Last Runaway's heroine "Honor's story serves as a powerful testament to the force of conscience and the difference that just one inspired individual can make." Chevalier dedicated The Last Runaway to Catoctin Quaker Camp, a Quaker summer camp in Maryland, and Oberlin College. Though Chevalier lives in England and is not an Ohioan, she has said, "Ohio is a curious state...it is perhaps more representative of the USA as a whole than any other state."

BERNARD FARAI MATAMBO - Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant for a writer under the age of thirty who has not yet published a book.

Bernard Farai Matambo was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He attended Oberlin College, graduating in the Class of 2005, with majors in Economics and Creative Writing before proceeding to Brown University where he completed a Master's in Fine Arts. His writings while at Brown received both the Beth Lisa Feldman Award for Fiction and the Matthew Assatly Award. His work has appeared in Witness, Pleiades, The Laurel Review, VespertinePress, and elsewhere.

While in college he was involved in numerous activities including the African Students Association, the Student Academic Ambassador Program, and the President's Diversity and Multiculturalism Taskforce.

Currently, Matambo is a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.  He says he joined the Oberlin faculty to give back to his alma mater, add value, and bring a fresh approach to fellow Obies.

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