О премии

Премия «Автор года Джорджии» (GAYA) - американская награда, присуждаемая авторам штата за лучшие книги, изданные в течение прошедшего календарного года.

Впервые награды были вручены в 1964 году Советом авторов и журналистов Дикси. В 1984 году эта организация стала Советом авторов и журналистов (CAJ). Десять лет спустя, в 1994 году, Cовет авторов уменьшился, потеряв свой драйв и свое лидерство.
В 1994 году, через пять месяцев после своего основания, премию под свою ответственность приняла Ассоциация писателей Джорджии.

Цель Премии: показать всё разнообразие творчества выдающихся писателей штата Джорджия и познакомить с ним общественность.

На номинацию имеют право публикуемые авторы, проживающие или зарегистрированные в штате Джорджия. Книга может участвовать только в одной номинации премии, которую выбирает сам автор. Ассоциация писателей Джорджии оставляет за собой право не награждать победителя в какой-либо номинации, если будет установлено, что среди номинантов нет достойных премии книг.

Награды в различных номинациях объявляются и вручаются в июне на торжественной церемонии. Церемония отличается тем, что является старейшей церемонией вручения литературных премий на юго-востоке Соединенных Штатов, отражающей современный издательский мир. Премией награждаются как независимые авторы, так и те, чьи книги публикуются в традиционных издательствах. Престиж и участие в церемонии награждения выросли с момента ее создания в 1964 году.

С 2006 года премия начала тесно сотрудничать с факультетом гуманитарных наук Государственного университета Кеннесо. Награда охватывает практически все традиционные номинации художественной и документальной литературы.

Другие названия: GAYA Жанры: Зарубежные детективы, Зарубежные детские книги, Зарубежная литература, Зарубежная поэзия, Документальная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2006 г. Последнее вручение: 2024 г. Официальный сайт: https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2023/06/20/georgia-author-of-the-year-awards-honor-local-writers/

Номинации

Детективный роман/триллер
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Detective/Mystery

Номинация для романов одного автора, рассказывающий о преступлении или преступлениях. Учреждена в 2015 году.

Первый роман
Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel

Премия присуждается за первый опубликованный роман одного автора.

Художественная проза
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction

Премия присуждается за художественный роман одного автора.

Романтический роман
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Romance

Премия присуждается за роман одного автора, посвященный отношениям.

Научная фантастика
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Science Fiction

Премия вручается за роман одного автора, основанный на науке или технологиях будущего.

Детская книга
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Children’s Book

Номинация для книг, написанных для детей до 9 лет. Принимаются книжки с картинками, художественная или научно-популярная литература.

Поваренная книга
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Cookbook

Премия присуждается за книги, которые содержат сборники рецептов или посвящены изучению продуктов питания, приготовлению пищи и культуре питания.

Эссе
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Essay

Номинируются сборники одного автора, посвященные одной теме. Антологии нескольких авторов не принимаются.

Книга для подростков
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Young Adult

Номинация для художественных или научно-популярных книг, написанных для детей старше 10 лет.

Биография
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography

К конкурсу принимаются истории жизни человека, группы людей или семьи, основанные на фактах. В номинацию не входят автобиографии, которые номинируются, как Мемуары.

Премия присуждалась до 2022 года. Затем была объединена с номинацией Мемуары в одну.

История
Georgia Author of the Year Award for History

Премия присуждается за документальные книги, основанные на исследованиях, в которых используются повествования для изучения и анализа прошлых событий.

Вдохновляющая книга
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Inspirational

Номинация для документальных книг на темы самопомощи, улучшения жизни, мотивации, религии или духовности.

Мемуары
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Memoir

Премия присуждается за документальные книги, представляющие собой отчет о личной жизни и опыте.

Премия присуждалась до 2022 года. Затем была объединена с номинацией Биография в одну.

Графический роман
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Graphic Novel

На конкурс принимается повествовательное произведение, в котором история рассказывается не только словами, но и последовательным искусством, и может быть художественным или научно-популярным.

Книга ЛГБТ-сообщества
Georgia Author of the Year Award for LGBTQIA+

Премия присуждается за произведения, созданные сообществом ЛГБТ (LGBTQIA+) или для него. Книги могут быть художественными, научно-популярными или поэтическими.

Поэзия
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Poetry

Принимаются произведения или сборники одного автора.

Сборник рассказов
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story Collection

Премия присуждается за сборник рассказов или новелл одного автора.

Специализированная книга
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Specialty Book

В номинацию принимаются антологии поэзии, творческой документальной и художественной литературы, а также книги, включающие визуальные элементы, такие как искусство или фотография.

За вклад в литературу
Lifetime Achievement Award
Посмертная премия за вклад в литературу
Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award

Премия вручается с 2016 года.

Книги по самопомощи
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Self-Help
Юмор
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Humor

Премия вручена один раз, в 2015 году.

Рассказ
Short Story
Биография/мемуары
Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography and Memoir

Премия присуждается с 2023 года. До этого существовали две отдельные номинации.

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Murder in Drury Lane
Ванесса Райли 0.0
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition—and her fears that someone from her past wants her permanently silenced. But on one particular June evening everything collides, and the performance takes an unwelcome turn . . .

Onstage, a woman emits a scream of genuine terror. A man has been found dead in the prop room, stabbed through the heart. Abigail’s neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, is also in attendance, and the two rush backstage. The magistrate, keen to avoid bringing more attention to the case and making Lady Worthing more of a target, asks Abigail not to investigate. But she cannot resist, especially when the usually curmudgeonly Henderson offers his assistance.

Abigail soon discovers a tangled drama that rivals anything brought to the stage, involving gambling debts, a beautiful actress with a parade of suitors, and the very future of the Drury Lane theatre. For Abigail the case is complicated still further, for one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart—the abolition of slavery within the British empire. Uncovering the truth always comes at a price. But this time, it may be far higher than she wishes to pay.
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Первый роман
Red Clay Suzie
Jeffrey Dale Lofton 0.0
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize

A novel inspired by true events

The coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, who battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places.

Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes, and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave.
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Bengal Hound
Rahad Abir 0.0
"A story full of gravity and urgency." -Ha Jin, author of A Song Everlasting

A love story unravels in the tumultuous years leading up to the war for Bangladeshi Independence, revealing the irreconcilable fissures of land and life.

A city is hellbent on revolution. Passionate and impetuous, Shelley Majumder is a university student at a time of political discord in Dhaka in the late 1960s. Frustrated by the oppression of West Pakistani rulers, the Bengali people are rising up, taking Shelley with them. As he is forced to navigate the chaos of an uprising, where his every choice and action weighs heavy with consequence, Shelley's life is thrown further into disarray when he elopes with his childhood sweetheart, Roxana, a Muslim girl from his village, sparking a chain of events reflecting the turbulent relationship between Hindus and Muslims that quickly spins out of control. At its very core a story of love and loss, Bengal Hound traces the turbulent years of East Pakistan that led to a mass revolution, eventually culminating in the creation of Bangladesh. Rahad Abir conjures up characters haunted by memory and trauma in a society reeling from the pains of the Partition of British India. A powerful exploration of the dynamics of nationalism, family, religion, and gender relations, Bengal Hound reveals how the fracturing and making of countries leave indelible marks on its people.
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Романтический роман
A Laird without a Past
Жанин Энглерт 0.0
Escape to the Scottish isles with this rugged Highlander

His past is forgotten…
Can his mysterious healer unlock his future?

When Royce wakes with no memories and suddenly blind, his situation seems dire. The only thing he remembers is being attacked by shadowy figures...but not the beautiful woman who came to his rescue. Now Iona MacKenzie’s every touch drives Royce wild. But when news of a manhunt for him reaches them, Royce must uncover his past if he has any chance of saving himself—and the woman he’s falling for…

From Harlequin Your romantic escape to the past.
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Детская книга
You So Black
Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D 0.0
Based on Theresa Wilson’s (a.k.a. Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.’s) beautiful, viral spoken word poem of the same name, You So Black is a picture book celebration of the richness, the nuance, and the joy of Blackness.

Black is everywhere, and in everything, and in everyone—in the night sky and the fertile soil below. It’s in familial connections and invention, in hands lifted in praise and voices lifted in protest, and in hearts wide open and filled with love. Black is good.

Accompanied by powerful yet tender illustrations by award-winning illustrator London Ladd, Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D. has adapted her poem, full of gorgeous lyricism and imagery, to show readers the love, joy, resilience, and universality in the beauty of Blackness.
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Книга для подростков
Into the Light
Марк Оширо 0.0
When you're like me, you have to lie.
It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules that keep him moving―and keep him alive. Now, he’s taking a chance on a traveling situation with the Varela family, whose attractive but surly son, Carlos, seems to promise a new future.

I can't let anyone down.
Eli abides by the rules of his family, living in a secluded community that raised him to believe his obedience will be rewarded. But an unsettling question slowly eats away at Eli’s once unwavering faith in Why can’t he remember his past?

What am I supposed to do?
But the reported discovery of an unidentified body found in the hills of Idyllwild, California, will draw both of these young men into facing their biggest fears and confronting their own identity―and who they are allowed to be.

Find the truth.
For fans of Courtney Summers and Tiffany D. Jackson, Into the Light is a ripped-from-the-headlines story with Oshiro's signature mix of raw emotions and visceral prose―but with a startling twist you’ll have to read to believe.
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Биография
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
Mark Beaver 0.0
On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. “We were very wired,” Tucker later testified, “and we was looking for something to do.” Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people―one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.

Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who’d committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelism―Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among them―were urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver’s father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush.

Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America’s evangelical community. It’s a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It’s also a deeply personal reflection on how a father’s request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.
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История
Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley
Elizabeth Giddens 0.0
The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This seemingly isolated valley has an epic tale to tell. Always a desirable place to settle, hunt, gather, farm, and live, the valley and its people have played an integral role in some of the greatest dramas of the colonial era, the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War era. The experiences of turn-of-the-twentieth-century industrial logging alongside the national park movement show how land-use trends changed communities and families. Though the valley saw its share of conflict, its residents often lived like neighbors, sharing resources and acting cooperatively for mutual benefit and survival. They demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of threats to their existence.

Elizabeth Giddens offers a deeply researched and elegantly written account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. She builds the tale from archives, census records, property records, personal memoirs, and more, showing how national events affected all Oconaluftee's people—Indigenous, Black, and white.
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Вдохновляющая книга
Captured by Love: Inspiring True Romance Stories from Vietnam POWs
Lee Ellis, Greg Godek 0.0
Amazon Best Seller in Military Families and Survival Biographies & Memoirs 2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Nonfiction Cover Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Best Interior Design
2023 International Book Awards Finalist in Military History Experience 20 Romance Stories of Top Gun POWs Captured by Love shares the real love stories of 20 Vietnam War POWs. Some had wives who started a movement that changed American foreign policy. Others came home and had to start over, while five single men met the loves of their lives. Despite their unique differences, all these couples have been happily married 40 to 65 years. You’ll be swept up into some extraordinary tales such • Carole boldly gave her husband’s POW-MIA bracelet to John Wayne―he wore it for years!
• Pan Am stewardess Suzy wore a bracelet for POW Bill Bailey, whom she did not know. But she prayed for him daily, and miraculously met and married him when he came home.
• After eight years in prison, one POW said to his wife in his first phone call upon his release, “Hi Jane. It’s Tarzan.” You will laugh and cry when you learn why. Former POW Lee Ellis and love expert Greg Godek take you on a dramatic journey of faithfulness, passion, excitement, resilience, and practical love lessons from these couples.
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Мемуары
More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
John K. Blake 0.0
An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together.

John Blake grew up in a notorious Black neighborhood in inner-city Baltimore that became the setting for the HBO series The Wire. There he became a self-described “closeted biracial person,” hostile toward white people while hiding the truth of his mother’s race. The son of a Black man and a white woman who met when interracial marriage was still illegal, Blake knew this much about his mother: She vanished from his life not long after his birth, and her family rejected him because of his race.

But at the age of seventeen, Blake had a surprise encounter that uncovered a disturbing family secret. This launched him on a quest to reconcile with his white family. His search centered on two “Where is my mother?” and “Where do I belong?” More Than I Imagined is Blake’s propulsive true story about how he answered those questions with the help of an interracial church, a loving caregiver’s sacrifice, and an inexplicable childhood encounter that taught him the importance of forgiveness.

Blake covered some of the biggest stories about race in America for twenty-five years before realizing that “facts don’t change people, relationships do.” He owes this discovery to “radical integration,” which was the only way forward for him and his family—and is the only way forward for America as a multiracial democracy. More Than I Imagined is a hopeful story for our difficult times.
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Поэзия
Life of the Mind Julia
Caroline Knowlton 0.0
Julia Caroline Knowlton’s poems are short, sharp, and teeming with knowledge of heartbreak and reinventions. From the sticky heat of Georgia to the cool charm of Paris, this clutch of poems comes to terms with absence and takes us on a journey that reawakens desire.

—Collin Kelley, Wonder & New & Selected Poems


Julia Knowlton’s poetry both celebrates the senses and champions the mind. One responds to her poems viscerally, for they are truly embodied, yet one returns to the verses to absorb their underlying meaning. Knowlton’s poems are imbued with an unobtrusive self-knowledge and wry sense of humor. From the “broken stone of love and keys of memory made out of cloud” to the marble metamorphosis conjured in Eternal Idol, these poems edify, enrich, and unleash the imagination of the reader.

—Donna Sadler, Professor Emerita of Art History, Agnes Scott College
Author of the forthcoming book The Nun's Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Convent Art


In Life of the Mind Julia Caroline Knowlton's short, lyric, painterly poems are full of elegant, tart (and smart) observations like “There is no better color than everyone falling silent.” In the delicious “dark pink air of Paris,” she shares her love of France, confiding “I bring my pain here, to feel it.” Each of us has a particular “here” where we bring our pain. The speaker in this work strips down to her “I am spare and strange.” This is not only a cool self-appraisal, but also the emotional scaffolding these poems are built on. Knowlton's poems are brief, worldly, intriguing, and full of imaginative leaps that linger. These poems [are] a distinct pleasure to discover.

—Elaine Sexton, author of Drive and Prospect/Refuge
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Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
Daniel Black 0.0
A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope

“There are stories that must be told.”

Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can’t be described.

Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the black church, Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display.

As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.
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За вклад в литературу
Энтони Грумс / Anthony Grooms
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1 в избранном
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