Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Daniel Ellsberg among finalists for California Book Awards

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees is a finalist for the California Book Awards, alongside Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Article by John McMurtrie originally published by The San Francisco Chronicle. Daniel Ellsberg became a household name in the 1970s after releasing the Pentagon Papers, the infamous documents that would help […]

The Refugees Selected as California Book Awards Finalist

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees has been selected as a finalist for the 2018 California Book Awards. The annual California Book Awards, which began in 1931, recognize the state’s best writers and illuminate the wealth and diversity of literature written in California. Monetary prizes are given in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, juvenile literature, young […]