Washington: Organizers for the National Book Awards on Wednesday announced the 20 finalists for 2011`s honours, which are among the most prestigious in US publishing.
Winners in four categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people`s literature -- will be announced at a gala event held in New York on November 16 and hosted by actor John Lithgow. Finalists in their respective categories follow:
Fiction: Andrew Krivak, ‘The Sojourn’
Tea Obreht, ‘The Tiger`s Wife’
Julie Otsuka, ‘The Buddha in the Attic’
Edith Pearlman, ‘Binocular Vision’
Jesmyn Ward, ‘Salvage the Bones’
Non-Fiction :Deborah Baker, ‘The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism’
Mary Gabriel, ‘Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution’
Stephen Greenblatt, ‘Swerve: How the World Became Modern’
Manning Marable, ‘Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention’
Lauren Redniss, ‘Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout’
Poetry :Nikky Finney, ‘Head Off & Split’
Yusef Komunyakaa, ‘The Chameleon Couch’
Carl Phillips, ‘Double Shadow’
Adrienne Rich, ‘Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010’
Bruce Smith, ‘Devotions’
Young people`s literature :Franny Billingsley, ‘Chime’
Debby Dahl Edwardson, ‘My Name Is Not Easy’
Thanhha Lai, ‘Inside Out and Back Again’
Albert Marrin, ‘Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy’
Lauren Myracle, ‘Shine’
Gary D. Schmidt, ‘Okay for Now’
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 12:14
