SIBA Book Award

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SIBA Book Award is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999.[1] Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of their customers. Voting categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature. The award was originally called the "SEBA" Book Award.[1]

The first awards were given in 1999.[2] From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism.[2] Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote.[2]

Winners

1999[1]

2000

  • Fiction: Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
  • Nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
  • Children: Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey
  • Poetry: Elegy for the Southern Drawl, Rodney Jones

2001

2002

  • Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
  • Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
  • Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

2003

2004[3]

  • Fiction: Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
  • Nonfiction: The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
  • Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
  • Poetry: Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
  • Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

2005

2006

  • Fiction: Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
  • Nonfiction: Marley & Me, John Grogan
  • Children: Rosa, Nikki Giovanni (with Bryan Collier)
  • Poetry: What Travels with Us, Darnell Arnoult
  • Cookbook: Being Dead is No Excuse, Gayden Metcalfe & Charlotte Hays

2007

2008

2009

2010

  • Fiction: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Nonfiction: The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg
  • Children: The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass
  • Cookbook: The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee

2011

2012

  • Fiction: Iron House by John Hart
  • Nonfiction: Lions of the West by Robert Morgan
  • Young Adult: Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley
  • Children: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond (Jo MacDonald Series) by Mary Quattlebaum
  • Poetry: Abandoned Quarry by John Lane
  • Cookbook: The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle

2013

  • Fiction: A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
  • Nonfiction: Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail by Jay Erskine Leutze
  • Young Adult: Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
  • Children: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
  • Poetry: Descent by Kathryn Stripling Byer
  • Cookbook: The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." Publishers Weekly, 246(20), 24. 1 Color Photograph. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2008 SIBA Book Award
  3. ↑ Steelman, Ben (2004, Jun 27). "Book marks; Edgerton Nabs SEBA Award for 'Piccadilly'". Star-News. ProQuest document ID 285439497. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.

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