Recently recognized Susan Larson, host of WWNO’s “The Reading Life” and former Times-Picayune book editor, and Ann Dobie, the professor emerita of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with the new Louisiana Literary Icon Award. The award, given during the Louisiana Book Festival, celebrated Larson and Dobie’s careers spent promoting reading and Louisiana authors and books. Poet David Kirby also won this year’s Louisiana Writer Award at the festival.