Four UL Press titles have earned gold and bronze medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Gold winners are:
“Generating Hope” by Geoff Gjertson, which documents the BeauSoleil solar home designed and built by a team from UL Lafayette for the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.; and
“You Don’t Know Me” by James Nolan, a collection of short stories about New Orleans.
“Generating Hope” earned the top award in the Architecture category, while “You Don’t Know Me” was cited in the South – Best Regional Fiction category.
Bronze winners are:
“The Irish in New Orleans” by Laura D. Kelley, a history of the Irish in New Orleans illustrated with photographs; and
“The Public Art of Robert Dafford” by Philip Gould, a vivid depiction of the renowned artist’s work through text and photography.
Kelley’s book was judged in in the South – Best Regional Non-Fiction category; Gould’s was in the coffee table books category.
Information about the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press can be found at cls.louisiana.edu/ul-press.
The IPPY Awards, launched in 1996, are intended to increase recognition to deserving, but often unsung, titles produced by independent authors and publishers. Established as the first awards program open exclusively to independents, over 3,000 IPPYs have been awarded to authors and publishers around the world.