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adderbolt - Jack posted an update Friday, Oct 14, 2011, 3:57am EDT, 14 years ago
National Book Award Finalists
The National Book Foundation will announce the winners at a gala in New York on Nov. 16. The finalists include:
Fiction:
"The Sojourn" by Andrew Krivak
"The Tiger's Wife" by Téa Obreht
"The Buddha in the Attic" by Julie Otsuka
"Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories" by Edith Pearlman
"Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward:
Non Fiction
"The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism" by Deborah Baker
"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" by Mary Gabriel
"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt
"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable
"Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout" by Lauren Redniss
Poetry:
"Head Off and Split" by Nikky Finney
"The Chameleon Couch" by Yusef Komunyakaa
"Double Shadow" by Carl Phillips
"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" by Adrienne Rich
"Devotions" by Bruce Smith
Young People's Literature:
"My Name Is Not Easy" by Debby Dahl Edwardson
"Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
"Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy" by Albert Marrin
"Shine" by Lauren Myracle
"Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
"Chime" by Franny Billingsley
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/10/national-book-award-finalists-announced.html
