Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest
Los Angeles Times
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Aktueller Gewinner · 2025
- There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America · Brian Goldstone
Als Nächstes · voraussichtlich Februar 2027
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2025
- There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in AmericaGewonnen
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Jeanne Carstensen
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2024
- The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LAGewonnen
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- We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in AmericaGewonnen
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Dorothy Roberts
2021
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Reuben Jonathan Miller
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2020
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Brittany K. Barnett
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Jacob Soboroff
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Christine Montross
2019
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2018
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2017
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Lauren Markham
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
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Sebastian Junger
2009
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Dave Cullen
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2008
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2007
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Ronald Brownstein
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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Carlo Rotella
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Anthony Swofford
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2002
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2001
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John W. Dean
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2000
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1999
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1998
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Cristina Rathbone
1997
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Randall Kennedy
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1996
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John Hockenberry
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1995
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Jeffrey Abramson
1994
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James Q. Wilson
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1993
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David Brock
1992
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James Davison Hunter
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1991
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1990
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The Blind Watchmaker
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1989
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63Gewonnen
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1988
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Häufige Fragen
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 2025: Wer hat gewonnen?
- Gewinner 2025: „There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America“ von Brian Goldstone.
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest: Wer waren die letzten Gewinner?
- 2025: „There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America“ von Brian Goldstone; 2024: „The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA“ von Jesse Katz; 2023: „We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America“ von Roxanna Asgarian; 2022: „Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America“ von Dahlia Lithwick; 2021: „Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could“ von Adam Schiff.