• The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, established in 1991, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awarded to authors' debut books of fiction...
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    nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added...
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    American fiction writer and former news reporter. He won the 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his novel...
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  • name. The book won the 2005 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. It was adapted as a movie in...
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  • Things that year. The same year, it was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The novel is a retelling of William Shakespeare's Hamlet...
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  • We Need New Names (category Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-winning works)
    for Literature (2013), and won the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award for debut work of fiction. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award...
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    Valeria Luiselli (category American Book Award winners)
    Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Luiselli's 2015 novel The Story of My Teeth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and...
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  • The Washington Post 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Won) NBCC Leonard Award for Best Debut of the Year...
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  • James Brooke in Sarawak on Borneo. The novel won the 1998 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The novel uses of a variety of writing forms, including...
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  • The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (category Fiction about refugees and displaced people)
    Book. The book was also awarded The Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among numerous other honors...
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  • PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, as well as being a finalist for the 1999 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. The collection...
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  • Prague (novel) (category Fiction set in 1990)
    debut novel, first published by Random House in 2002. In 2003, the novel won The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Prague opens...
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  • Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a...
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    Book Prize nominee for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for The Art of Fielding 2012 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for The Art of Fielding 2012...
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    California Book Award's Silver Medal for Fiction and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Hunger includes...
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    2015 by Two Dollar Radio. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was listed as a best book of the year...
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  • winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2020. John Warner wrote in...
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    2000: Art Seidenbaum award for Best First Fiction 2013: Crossword Book Award (nonfiction) for From the Ruins of Empire. 2014: Leipzig Book Award for European...
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    Lan Samantha Chang (category Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners)
    Book Awards' Silver Medal for Fiction and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her first novel...
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  • shortlisted for the 2002 International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times’ 2001 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was longlisted for the...
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  • 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. It was a top-10 choice for The Washington Post, a top-100 choice for the Kansas City Star...
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  • finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the 2020 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book from...
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    Ben Lerner (category Believer Book Award winners)
    Believer Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction (The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction[broken anchor])...
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  • Darryl Pinckney (category American Book Award winners)
    1986, Whiting Award 1992, High Cotton won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. 1994, the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose...
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    Chigozie Obioma (category Hopwood Award winners)
    Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Nebraska Book Award For Fiction 2016, and the Earphones Award for the Audiobook of The Fishermen...
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  • Shirley Falls seem richly important." The novel won the 1999 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. "'AMY AND ISABELLE' ENTERS A NEW CHAPTER, AS OPRAH FILM"...
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  • longing for fulfillment in cultures other than their own. It was published in eleven European languages and won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for...
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  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
    National Book Award for Fiction, Finalist 2020 – The Story Prize, Winner 2020 – Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Winner...
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  • Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. The Guardian named Buoro...
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    first search for meaning in life. The novel was well received commercially and critically, winning Phillips a 2003 Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award...
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