{"id":16863,"date":"2013-05-16T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T02:44:29","slug":"uh-press-receives-top-honors-in-hawaii-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/16\/uh-press-receives-top-honors-in-hawaii-book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Press receives top honors in Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> book awards"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book Publishers Association announced the winners of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book Publishers Association<\/a> 2013 Ka Palapala Poʻokela<\/span> book awards<\/a> on Friday, May 10. University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Press<\/a> titles were recognized with 7 of the 20 awards, including the top Samuel M. Kamakau Award for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book of the Year for Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory<\/em><\/a> by Anwei Skinsnes Law with design by UH<\/abbr> Press Production Editor Julie Matsuo-Chun<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In addition, the book tied as the winner of the Award of Excellence in the Hawaiian Language, Culture and History category and received an honorable mention in nonfiction. <\/p>\n

Published with the support of the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, the comprehensive work uses primary sources such as letters, petitions and oral history interviews to document the lives of individuals sent to the leprosy settlement at Kalaupapa. <\/p>\n

The judges praised the volume as “a very important contribution to Hawaiian history” and recognized Anwei Law for “an exemplary job constructing an insightful narrative from these sources into a book that is beautifully realized by UH<\/abbr> Press.” <\/p>\n

Accolades also went to these UH<\/abbr> Press titles and their authors: <\/p>\n