The results may not be in for the Edgar, the Nebula, and the Hugo, but earlier this week Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union took home the California Book Award gold medal for fiction, with the silver going to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns. Other winners in the 76th annual presentation of the awards, honoring "the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers," included Ralph Ellison biographer Arnold Rampersad and Pulitzer winner Daniel Walker Howe for nonfiction, debut novelist Porochista Khakpour, and poet W.S. Di Piero—with special, out-of-category commendation for Robert Alter's translation of The Book of Psalms.