Louisiana Literary Award Recipients: Available at the Library
The Louisiana Literary Award was established by the Louisiana Library Association in 1948 and was presented for the first time in 1949. It is intended to "promote interest in books about Louisiana and to encourage their production."
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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Call Number: GR110 .L5 R63 2008ISBN: 9780393061673Award Winner, 2010
After the Hunt: Louisiana's Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery by Call Number: TX751 .F648 2007ISBN: 0970445741Award Winner, 2008
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 by Call Number: E445 .L8 F65 2005ISBN: 0807130389Award Winner, 2006
A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana by Call Number: LC214.22 .L8 B35 2002ISBN: 0826513883Award Winner, 2003
From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712-1862 by Call Number: KFL78 .F47 2001ISBN: 0807127051Award Winner, 2002
Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist by Call Number: ND237 .P377 A4 2000ISBN: 0807126411Award Winner, 2001- Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities by Call Number: F374 .T74 1999ISBN: 0807122920Award Winner, 2000
- Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey by Call Number: NA730 .L8 L68 1997ISBN: 0807120545Award Winner, 1998
Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans [Madaline Edwards] by Call Number: CT275 .E357 1996ISBN: 0820317586Award Winner, 1997
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 by Call Number: E185.93 .L6 F35 1995ISBN: 0820317004Award Winner, 1996
Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Lady by Call Number: E840.8 .B6 A3 1994ISBN: 0151931062Award Winner, 1995- Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Call Number: E185.93 .L6 H16 1992ISBN: 0807116866Award Winner, 1993
Flora of Louisiana: Watercolor Drawings by Call Number: QK98.183 .S76 A2 1991ISBN: 0807116645Award Winner, 1992- The Collected Stories of John William Corrington by Call Number: PS3553 .O7 A6 1990ISBN: 0826207537Award Winner, 1991
- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana by Call Number: QL653 .L6 D86 1989ISBN: 0807114367Award Winner, 1990
- Judah P. Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate by Call Number: E467.1 .B4 E9 1988ISBN: 0029088801Award Winner, 1989
- Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942 by Call Number: PS267 .B3 C87 1984ISBN: 0807111430Award Winner, 1985
Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area by Call Number: F370 .G56ISBN: 0807110582Award Winner, 1983 (non-fiction)- Marshland Brace: Two Louisiana Stories by Call Number: PS3569 .E46 M3 1982ISBN: 080711040XAward Winner, 1983 (fiction)
- Atchafalaya: America's Largest River Basin Swamp by Call Number: F377.A78 L6ISBN: 0875116957Award Winner, 1982
A Confederacy of Dunces by Call Number: PS3570.O54 C6 1980ISBN: 0807106577Award Winner, 1981 (fiction)
Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwest Louisiana, October - December 1863 by Call Number: E475.4 .E35ISBN: 1887366628Award Winner, 1980
