1980 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners
Presented at the Los Angeles Times
Biography
[Biography award concurrent with this year's History award]
Current Interest
Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books) [Winner of the General Award--no Current Interest Award this year]
Fiction
The Second Coming by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
History
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown)
Mystery / Thriller
[Award added in 2000]
Poetry
Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly (Black Sparrow)
Science & Technology
[Award added in 1989]
Young Adult Fiction
[Award added in 1998]
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
[Award added in 1991]
The Robert Kirsch Award
Wallace Stegner
Previous Winners by Year
| 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 |
| 1981 | 1986 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 |
| 1982 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2002 | 2007 | 2012 |
| 1983 | 1988 | 1993 | 1998 | 2003 | 2008 | |
| 1984 | 1989 | 1994 | 1999 | 2004 | 2009 |
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