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2006
Ka Palapala Po‘okela
Awards
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The 2006 festivities
started off with the musical tradition of Keith and
Carmen Haugen with help from their friend Frank Uehara
on pakini bass. The Haugens are the first recipients of
the annual Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement as a
Musical Group from the Music Foundation of Hawai‘i.
Shown in the background is the visual presentation that
accompanied the keynote speech by news reporter
Denby Fawcett. |
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Colorfully draped with lei, playwright/columnist Lee
Cataluna won the awards for Excellence in Literature
and Excellence in Writing Literature for her wildly
funny, true-to-life portrayals in Folks You Meet in
Longs and Other Stories (Bamboo Ridge Press). |
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Legendary promoter Tom Moffatt received an award
for his coffee-table memoir,
The Showman of the Pacific: 50 Years of Radio and
Rock Stars (Watermark Publishing), which provides an
inside-look at his fifty years in the entertainment
business. |
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The trophy for the John
Dominis Holt Award for lifetime achievement
in book publishing was presented to Claudia Cannon,
who recently departed for San Diego after almost two
decades of high-energy marketing of Hawaiiana titles
while at Booklines Hawaii. |
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During the
break, Angie Britten, marketing director at
Mutual Publishing, shared a happy yet poignant moment
with Claudia Cannon, still tearful after the
surprise of receiving the Holt Award. |
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Elementary
school teacher Leonard Villanueva’s The Hungry
Pua‘a and the Sweet Sweet Potato (BeachHouse
Publishing) won the Award of
Excellence for Children’s Illustrative or Photographic
Books for its clever story and softly rendered artwork. |
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Allan Sieden
displays the award for Excellence in Writing Nonfiction,
which he won for his work on The Hawaiian Monarchy
(Mutual Publishing), one of many titles he has authored
throughout the years.
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Interior
designer Mary Philpotts McGrath and freelance
writer Kaui Philpotts accepted the award for
Excellence in General Illustrative and Photographic
Books given to Hawai‘i, A Sense of Place (Mutual
Publishing). The lavish coffee-table volume also won the
top Samuel M. Kamakau Award for the
Hawai‘i Book of the Year. The book’s photographer,
David Duncan Livingston, and designer, Cindy
Turner, both won in their respective categories. |
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