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The 2006 Connecticut Book Award Ceremony The 2006 Connecticut Book Awards, the Connecticut Center for the Book’s tribute to the state’s literary notables and illustrious illustrators and designers.
Keynote speaker Sam Pickering
Biography/Memoir Committee chair Susan Aller with Award winner Roya Hakakian
Children’s Author Award winner Philip Caputo with Committee chair Karen Romano Young
Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Children’s Illustrator Award, with Committee chair Bina Williams
George Kokkinidis, with Alexander Isley, Inc., received the Design Award from Jim Lee, Committee chair
Mary Etter presented the Award on behalf of her Fiction Committee to Alice Mattison
Gabrielle Calvocoressi received the Poetry Award from Ravi Shankar, Committee chair
Lary Bloom, chair, presented his committee’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community to Marilyn Nelson
Award winners George Kokkinidis, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Alice Mattison, Philip Caputo, Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, Roya Hakakian, Marilyn Nelson, and keynote speaker Sam Pickering. Nonfiction Award winner Robert Farris Thompson was unable to attend.
25 finalists were on hand to sign books. Jan Owens of Millrace Books in Farmington was the bookseller
Guests enjoyed a bountiful and beautiful hors d’oeuvres buffet created by City Fare of Hartford
Guests enjoyed a bountiful and beautiful hors d’oeuvres buffet created by City Fare of Hartford
Biography/Memoir finalist Francine du Plessix Gray was the first author to begin signing books
Many finalists and winners sat in Hartford City Council members’ seats while signing books
Advisory Council member Mary Etter, director of South Windsor Public Library, with Lifetime Award winner Marilyn Nelson (Credit: Christine Bradley)
Marilyn Nelson also signed books
Biography/Memoir finalist Carolyn Spiro, M.D. (center), co-author of Divided Minds
Children’s Illustrator finalist Ross MacDonald signing Bad Baby
Connecticut Center for the Book coordinator Kat Lyons with Roya Hakakian, winner of the Biography/Memoir Award (Credit: Christine Bradley) |
