Literary awards

NATASHA SAJE, prolific poet and associate professor of English at Westminster College, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to lecture and research at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia during the 2004-05 academic year. She will study contemporary Solvenian writers, work on a book of poetry and team teach a class on modernity and the arts. A faculty member at Westminster since 1998, Saje teaches English and directs the prestigious Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series.

THE INDEPENDENT LDS BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION AWARDS:

Book of the year: Majorie Pay Hinckley, "Small and Simple Things"

Fiction: Anita Stansfield, "The Captain of Her Heart" and Jack Weyland, "Adam's Story" (tie)

Doctrine: Dennis Largey, "Book of Mormon Reference Companion"

Children's literature: Timothy Robinson, "He Took My Lickin' for Me," illustrated by Ben Sowards

Vendor of the year: Sounds of Zion, Sandy