Veronique Tadjo, winner of the Fiction award for, "In the Company of Men,"at the the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes show in the Bovard Auditorium at USC on April 21, 2022. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)For the first time in three years, writers, editors, journalists and bibliophiles gathered Friday night at USC’s Bovard Auditorium for a live, in-person ceremony to unveil the winners of the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida walks on stage to make the opening remarks at the LA Times Book Prizes. The fiction prize went to Tadjo, whose novel "In the Company of Men" was inspired by real accounts of the Ebola epidemic that devastated West Africa. Abbott and S.A. Cosby, a 2021 Book Prize winner and finalist this year, stood near the bar talking about the movies that have inspired their work, alcoholic drinks in hand.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 23, 2022 16:43 UTC