MANOA online v. 3

In January, the Association of American University Presses recognized MANOA for design excellence. Two issues, Blood Ties: Writing across Chinese Borders and Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia, are to be included in the 2007 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, which will premiere at AAUP’s annual meeting in June and tour the country.

In April, the Pele Awards were presented by the Hawai‘i chapters of the American Advertising Federation and the American Institute of Graphic Arts for work created in Hawai‘i. (Jurors are from outside the state and are affiliated with these two national organizations.) Of the 850 entries from 109 entrants, 55 received first-place Pele awards. In the category of publication design, Barbara Pope Book Design received an award for Varua Tupu.

At a ceremony in May, the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association presented the Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards for books published in 2006. Books were nominated in thirteen categories, and Varua Tupu—edited by Frank Stewart, Kareva Mateata-Allain, and Alexander Dale Mawyer—was the winner in the excellence-in-literature category. Barbara Pope, MANOA’s designer and art editor since its inception, received the John Dominis Holt Award for “an extended history of Excellence in Hawai‘i Book Publishing.”