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The Library of Virginia Literary Awards are presented each year for the best books by a Virginia author in the fields of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (and, in the case of nonfiction, also by any author about a Virginia subject). A special award is also given each year for lifetime achievement in any literary field. The finalists and winners for the awards are selected by an independent panel of judges. Other authors are honored through the People’s Choice Awards, the Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature, and the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize.

Dr. Virginia Cherry, Library Director of Richard Bland College Library, attended the 14th Annual Library of Virginia Awards program at the Library of Virginia on October 15, 2011. As a Page Turner member, Dr. Cherry supports this annual event honoring Virginia's authors.

2011 Winners

• Lifetime Literary Achievement
  Earl Hamner


• Fiction
  Belle Boggs, Mattaponi Queen


• Nonfiction
  Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


• Poetry
  Michael Chitwood, Pour-Mouth Jubilee


• People's Choice Award for Fiction
  Jan Karon, In the Company of Others


• People's Choice Award for Nonfiction
  Julie Campbell, The Horse in Virginia


• Cardozo Award for Children's Literature
  Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda


• Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize
  Lisa Russ Spaar