Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers."
Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts. In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year.
In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom, in an effort to make it more lively and fun. Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage.
Recipients
Book Awards
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Award for Fiction
[Ken Kesey] Award for the Novel
[Ken Kesey] Award for Fiction
[H. L. Davis] Award for Short Fiction
Award for Literary Nonfiction
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
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| 2003 | Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune | Barbara S. Mahoney |
| 2004 | In Search of Ancient Oregon | Ellen Morris Bishop |
| 2005 | Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown | James C. Mohr |
| 2006 | Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan | Andrew Bernstein |
| 2007 | Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America | Garrett Epps |
| 2008 | One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity | Steven W. Bender |
| 2009/2010 | Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2011 | Savages and Scoundrels | Paul VanDevelder |
| 2012 | Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration Of The Empire's 2600th Anniversary | Kenneth J. Ruoff |
| 2013 | The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret | Kent Hartman |
| 2014 | Duel with the Devil | Paul Collins |
| 2015 | Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self | Alex Tizon |
| 2016 | A Long High Whistle | David Biespiel |
| 2017 | The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2018 | Fish Market | Lee van der Voo |
| 2019 | Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon | Kenneth R. Coleman |
| 2020 | Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West | David Wolman and Julian Smith |
| 2021 | The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America | Nicholas Buccola |
| 2022 | The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology | Jacob Darwin Hamblin |
| 2023 | Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home | Lauren Kessler |
| 2024 | Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest | Josephine Woolington |
[Sarah Winnemucca] Award for Creative [Nonfiction]
[Angus L. Bowmer] Award for Drama
Award for Young Readers Literature
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| Year | Book | Author |
| 2003 | Three Samurai Cats | Eric Kimmel |
| 2004 | Luba | Michelle McCann |
| 2005 | Cave Paintings to Picasso | Henry Sayre |
| 2006 | Tour America | Diane Siebert |
| 2007 | Not in Room 204 | Shannon Riggs |
| 2008 | A Day With No Crayons | Elizabeth Rusch |
| 2009/2010 | Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole | Deborah Hopkinson |
| 2011 | Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix | Graham Salisbury |
| 2012 | Calvin Coconut: Hero Of Hawaii | Graham Salisbury |
| 2013 | Drawing From Memory | Allen Say |
| 2014 | Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous | Graham Salisbury |
| 2015 | Whistle in the Dark | Susan Hill Long |
| 2016 | With a Friend by Your Side | Barbara Kerley |
| 2017 | Hannah and Sugar | Kate Berube |
| 2018 | The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan | Patricia Bailey |
| 2019 | The Turning | Emily Whitman |
| 2020 | Lowriders: Blast from the Past | Cathy Camper |
| 2021 | A Game of Fox and Squirrels | Jenn Reese |
| 2022 | Taylor Before and After | Jennie Englund |
| 2023 | Friends Are Friends, Forever | Dane Liu |
| 2024 | Too Early | Nora Ericson |