The 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honor crime novelist Walter Mosley for lifetime achievement.
announced Wednesday, with crime novelist Walter Mosley named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.
Winners will be announced at an evening ceremony in Los Angeles on April 17, the day before the start of the Los Angeles TimesFarrow’s “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” is among the finalists in the current-interest category, which this year highlights books that explore the hot-button issues of the day.
This year will be the first for the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, sponsored by Ray Bradbury Literary Works. The prize honors Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating writers working in his field today.
“We are pleased to celebrate Walter Mosley’s 30-year writing life, which spans mysteries, short stories, science fiction, nonfiction, plays, and works for television and film,” said Times Book Editor Boris Kachka. “Whether through a detective story set in the streets of 1950s Los Angeles or essays about contemporary politics, Mosley reaches a wide range of readers, bringing about a deeper understanding of the world and the people who live in it.
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